Timeline December 1925

Events in December 1925 4

• 1925 Locarno Treaties negotiated European powers agree to guarantee post-war borders Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Italy negotiated a set of agreements at Locarno, Switzerland, guaranteeing the western European borders set by the Treaty of Versailles. The treaties were formally signed in London on 1 December 1925 and ushered in a brief period of European reconciliation. Germany's acceptance paved the way for its entry into the League of Nations the following year.
• 1925 – 1980 Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925-1980) Died 17 September 1980, aged 54 Former President of Nicaragua and the last member of the Somoza family dynasty to rule the country, overthrown by the Sandinista revolution in 1979. He was assassinated in exile in Asuncion, Paraguay, by Argentine and Sandinista-linked guerrillas. His death closed the chapter on more than four decades of Somoza family rule.
• 1925 – 1990 Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) Died 16 May 1990, aged 64 Sammy Davis Jr. was an American entertainer known as a singer, dancer, and actor, and as a member of the Rat Pack alongside Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. He broke racial barriers in American entertainment across a decades-long career. He died of throat cancer in Beverly Hills on 16 May 1990.
• 1925 Battleship Potemkin premieres Eisenstein's silent film debuts in Leningrad Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin, dramatizing the 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian battleship, premiered in Leningrad. Its innovative use of montage editing, especially in the Odessa Steps sequence, influenced generations of filmmakers worldwide. It is widely regarded as one of the most important films in cinema history.