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100 YEARS AGO: HISTORICAL

EVENTS FROM OCTOBER 1925

T he month of
October has been
home to many
historical events
over the years.
Here’s a look at
some that helped to shape the world
in October 1925.

The Lerma River in Guanajuato, of fraud shortly before he was Prorok begins the excavation despite
Mexico, floods on October 1, leaving kidnapped and killed by police objections from the local Tuareg
thousands of people homeless as a affiliated with fascist leader Benito Berber community.
result. Mussolini.

Three workers are burned alive when The Palace Museum is opened to the “The War of the Stray Dog” between
the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond, public in Beijing on October 10. More Bulgaria and Greece begins on
Virginia, collapses on October 2. than 1.1 million pieces of artwork October 19. The killing of a Greek
The tragedy is partly responsible for captain and a sentry by Bulgarian
the emergence of an urban legend were housed at the museum when it soldiers was one reason given for the
known as the “Richmond Vampire” first opened. start of the conflict.
more than 80 years after the tunnel’s
collapse. Rebels invade Damascus during the John William Carson is born in
Great Syrian Revolt on October 17. Corning, Iowa, on October 23. Carson
The Soviet Union removes all The rebels set several colonial French would grow up and host “The Tonight
restrictions on the alcohol content of buildings on fire and take control of Show Starring Johnny Carson” for
beverages on October 4. Alcohol had Azm Palace during the revolt. three decades, ultimately earning the
been prohibited on a limited basis for nickname “The King of Late Night.”
11 years prior to the removal of the Six hundred American troops enter
limitation. Panama on October 12. The troops Nicaragua President Carlos José
enter at the request of Panamanian Solórzano acquiesces to former
Legendary baseball pitcher Christy President Rodolfo Chiari, who was president Emiliano Chamorro
Mathewson dies of tuberculosis hoping to put down a renter’s strike. Vargas’s day-old demand to make
on October 7. Mathewson, who him Minister of War on October
notched 373 wins and five National Margaret Hilda Roberts is born in
League ERA titles during his career, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England on 26, effectively ceding control of the
developed tuberculosis after being October 13. Roberts would come country.
exposed to chemical weapons during to be known as Margaret Thatcher
World War One. and serve as the Prime Minister of The remains of Egyptian pharaoh
England from 1979 to 1990. Tutankhamun are found on October
On October 9, the Italian state 28. English Egyptologist Howard
prosecutor absolves 24 officials Hungarian-American explorer and Carter had discovered Tutankhamun’s
of any responsibility for the June amateur archaeologist Bryon Khun tomb nearly three years before
1924 murder of Giacomo Matteotti. de Prorok begins excavating the Tin discovering the remains, which had
Matteotti was an Italian socialist Hinan Tomb in the Sahara Desert been covered by a death mask made
politician who accused the fascists in French Algeria on October 18. of gold.