Events January January 1 The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Historians now trace the beginning of Mussolini's dictatorship to this speech. January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas. January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic. February February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released. February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. March March 1 New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn. March 4 İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government). Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio. March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union. March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan. March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas). March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people. March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. April April–October – The is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style. April 1 Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leaves Washington, D.C. to begin