19259 Aug 2018 19:24
i see the share price is wonderful as ever but just for fun other events in 1925 include :-
April – Administration of Estates Act abolishes the legal rule of primogeniture in England and Wales[1] and the remnants of gavelkind in Kent.
May – Britain returns to the gold standard (the gold bullion standard rather than the specie standard).
1 May – Cyprus becomes a Crown Colony.[2]
29 May – last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
10 June – Dibbles Bridge coach crash: a tour coach runs away following brake failure and falls off a bridge near Hebden, North Yorkshire, en route to Bolton Abbey, killing seven passengers.[3]
1 to 30 June – the second-driest month in the EWP series (and driest of twentieth century) with an average rainfall of only 4.3 millimetres (0.17 in).[4]
27 July – the BBC's Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill, Daventry in central England opens as the world's first longwave broadcast radio transmitter, taking over from its Chelmsford facility.[5]
31 July – "Red Friday": the Government announces that it will grant a subsidy to the coal industry for nine months to maintain existing wage levels while a Royal Commission conducts an inquiry into the industry's problems.
5 August – establishment of political party Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, initially focussing on Welsh language issues.[6]
7 August – National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh.
2 October – in London
John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.[7]
The city's first double-decker buses with covered top decks are introduced.[8][9]
2 November – Eigiau Dam disaster kills seventeen in the North Wales village of Dolgarrog.[10]
3 November – Alfred Hitchcock's first (silent) film, The Pleasure Garden, completed (but not released in the UK until 16 January 1927).
7 November – The Morning Post, a Conservative London newspaper, publishes a leaked report of the Irish Boundary Commission's (limited) proposals for altering the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which are contrary to the Free State's view; publication effectively ends the work of the Commission.
16 November – carmaker Vauxhall Motors of Luton is purchased by American giant General Motors for $2.5 million.[11]
1 December – Locarno Treaties signed in London.
3 December – a settlement on the boundary question between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland is presented in London.[2] Controversially, there is no change to the border, in exchange for the Free State's liability for service of the U.K. public debt in respect of war pensions being dropped. The agreement is approved during this month by the U.K. and Free State legislatures.
10 December – Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact.[12]
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