1925 — Scopes Monkey Trial: Tennessee passes a law outlawing the teaching of evolution (7/26/25)

Elsewhere that year:

• Harvey Lillard, first chiropractic patient, dies in Seattle, Wash. 9/7/.
• Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States when she is elected governor of Wyoming.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
• The New Yorker magazine is founded.
• Crossword puzzles become very popular.
• A copy of the Bible cost the equivalent of about $2,000 in the 14th century; in 1455, $500; in the 17th century , $100; and by 1925 only $3.
• Arrowheads discovered in New Mexico prove that America was inhabited long before the time of Columbus.