Sept. 23, 1925: A retired French Army officer, Col. Alexandre Schlub, shoots himself to death while sitting in his own tomb at the Louyat Cemetery in Limoges. He was known to often visit his future burial site and "told his friends that the tomb held an odd fascination for him."

Sept. 23, 1925: A British soldier uses a tank's radiator to dry his shirt while his comrade shaves with his toiletries perched on the treads, during a break from army maneuvers near Andover.

Sept. 23, 1925: The Persian parliament building in Tehran is stormed by a mob after a marketplace riot over bread shortages expands into a broader anti-government protest. Windows and furniture are smashed and some members are injured as they try to escape.

Sept. 23, 1925: After drawing his pistol in mock anger at a fellow New York police officer, John McCarthy fires by mistake. Vincent Stell is badly wounded in the abdomen and McCarthy is charged with assault. He was allegedly drunk at the time.

Sept. 23, 1925: Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover proposes creation of a new federal regulatory bureau to oversee commercial aviation and assure its continued growth. He speaks to the federal commission that is chiefly studying military air power.

Sept. 23, 1925: Angelo Acerbi, the oldest living archbishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, is born in Sesta Godano in Italy’s Liguria region. He turns 100 today.

Sept. 23, 1925: The Milwaukee Clearinghouse Association posts a reward to stop bank robberies: $2,500 for dead bandits, $1,500 for live ones.

Sept. 23, 1925: Twelve men are summarily convicted of armed robbery are executed by hanging in Shanghai in front of a crowd of thousands. The condemned men are seen in an open-air truck headed to the gallows. Chinese nationalists are moving to assert power in the city.

Sept. 23, 1925: Spanish troops that began a sea invasion of Morocco’s Rif region two weeks ago launch an offensive to break out of their beachhead at Alhucemas. A massive battleship and air barrage is followed by a two-brigade attack against insurgents dug in around Morro Viejo.

Sept. 23, 1925: George S. Kaufman's satirical play "The Butter and Egg Man" premieres in New York. The tale of a rich rube who invests in what looks to be a flop Broadway show will be adapted into 6 movies, not counting Mel Brooks' "The Producers," which borrows its plot device.

Sept. 23, 1925: Former Cuban President Alfredo Zayas at a luncheon given in his honor by the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C.

Sept. 23, 1925: An 11-year checkers game ends in a draw. Ernest Jackson of York, S.C., had been playing by mail since 1914 against James McGregor of New South Wales, Australia. A move had taken place about once every two months.

Sept. 23, 1925: A 9-year-old girl is killed by a black bear that her father, a naturalist, had kept chained in his yard as a pet in Otisville, N.Y. Dorothy Craig is seized by the throat and mauled by the animal before a neighbor shoots it.

Sept. 23, 1925: Pratap Singh, the maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir in India since 1884, dies at 77. Succession is disputed by his adopted son, Jatdev Singh, and nephew Hari Singh, a scandalous figure in Britain after revelations that he paid extortion money to a prostitute.

Sept. 23, 1925: The Pittsburgh Pirates win their first National League pennant since 1909, clinching first place with a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies while the second-place New York Giants lose a doubleheader. The Giants had won the league title every year from 1921-24.

Sept. 23, 1925: The Debenham sisters pause on a motorcycle ride through London to light up.

Sept. 23, 1925: Married at Racconiggi Castle in Italy: Princess Mafalda, a daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III, and Prince Philipp of Hesse, a grandson of the late Kaiser Friedrich III. Prime Minister Mussolini serves as notary and members of nine royal families attend.

Sept. 23, 1925: French Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux (center) arrives at Washington’s Union Station and promptly meets American officials before negotiations on the country’s WWI debt to the U.S. He expects a settlement “on the basis of peace and righteousness.”

Sept. 23, 1925: A freshman hazing at the start of the school year at New York University. “This one had to walk across the campus sans shoes much to the amazement and amusement of the onlookers,” International News Service reports.

Sept. 23, 1925: Two interurban trains collide head-on in Kent, Wash., a suburb of Seattle. Eighteen people are hurt with cuts and bruises.

Sept. 22, 1925: Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Burleigh Grimes achieves a unique if dubious mark by grounding into two double plays and a triple play at Chicago. He strikes out in his other at-bat and pitches 12 innings, losing to the Cubs, 3-2. It's Brooklyn's ninth loss in a row.

Sept. 22, 1925: Leila Hadley, a socialite turned travel writer whose books related the globetrotting adventures she went on with her young children, is born (as Leila Burton) in Greenvale, N.Y. In the 2000s her daughters accused her and husband Henry Luce III of sexual abuse.

1925: Turkish money changers on a street in Baghdad.

Sept. 22, 1925: Construction of a lock on the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Lockport, Ill.

Sept. 22, 1925: The lineup of trucks being sold at Auerbach's Dodge dealership in Salt Lake City.

Sept. 22, 1925: Russ Solomon, the founder of the Tower Records music superstore chain, is born in Sacramento, Calif. His privately held retail business peaked with 200 locations worldwide and $1 billion in revenue in the 1990s before being driven to bankruptcy by digital music.

Sept. 22, 1925: "Nymphs" Myrtle Ellis, Mae Merrill and Lola Ruiz appear in court after they were arrested at a Los Angeles speakeasy and gambling den where they were allegedly dancing nude. They're among 16 people facing "morals charges" after the joint was raided.

Sept. 22, 1925: The Socialist Party nominee for mayor of New York, Norman Thomas, opens his campaign on behalf of "millions of workers and their children who live such pinched lives in this city of magnificence." He will be Socialist nominee for president six times from 1928-48.

Sept. 22, 1925: Harry Cooper and Laurie Ayton, two of the leading contenders in golf’s PGA Tournament, pose before the start of play at Olympia Fields in Chicago.

Sept. 22, 1925: John Coolidge, who two years ago swore in his son Calvin Coolidge as president, exercises his duty as justice of the peace in a different ceremony. He marries a couple, Doris Keith and Hollis Holt, at his home using the same family Bible from the 1923 oath-taking.

Sept. 22, 1925: Ironworkers union leader John J. McNamara is convicted of blackmail in Indianapolis for making threats to bomb a nonunion building project. He had served prison time in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing that killed 21. For his latest offense he gets 1 to 5 years.

Sept. 22, 1925: Prince Irene of Greece and Denmark and her sister Helen, the crown princess of Romania, wearing Romanian national costume.

Sept. 22, 1925: Mary Boland, now starring in the Broadway play “Cradle Snatchers,” models a crystal-bead-embroidered dress in a photo by Edward Steichen.

Sept. 22, 1925: Turkish President Mustafa Kemal adopts 12-year-old Sabiha Gökçen, an orphaned girl of Bosnian ancestry, after visiting the school she attends in Bursa in the northwest. She will learn to fly planes and is credited as the world's first female fighter pilot.

Sept. 22, 1925: A block in the center of Tijuana is destroyed after a fast-burning fire sweeps through several bars and clubs that cater to U.S. tourists in the Mexican border city. The San Francisco Cantina, Tivoli, San Diego and Log Cabin bars and Alhambra cafe are all gone.

Sept. 22, 1925: A married woman meets her secret lover on New York's Lower East Side only for him to club her over the head, then stuff her, still living, into a burning furnace. George Symuk admits killing Sophie Poleski because he feared she was about to poison him.

Sept. 22, 1925: Testifying to the commission studying military aviation, Navy Secretary Curtis Wilbur denounces Army gadfly Billy Mitchell’s proposal to create an independent air force. “Any attempt to do this would consist in amputating from the Navy a part of its very being.”

Sept. 22, 1925: Vice President Charles Dawes visits married movie stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks on the set of their studio in Los Angeles. Fairbanks appears to be made up for his role in “The Black Pirate.”

Sept. 22, 1925: "Sunny," the first musical collaboration of Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book, with Otto Harbach), premieres at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York. The tale of a rich playboy's romance with a circus performer will be adapted into two movies.

Sept. 22, 1925: Wounded and disabled Belgian soldiers of WWI help dedicate a monument to their comrades at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Sept. 22, 1925: The writer Somerset Maugham compares actor Henry Ainsley’s makeup with a print of Paul Gauguin at the New Theatre in London, where a stage adaptation of Maugham’s novel “The Moon and Sixpence” will be shown. Ainsley portrays an artist similar to Gauguin.

Sept. 21, 1925: Demolition of a foundation during street work in Philadelphia.

Sept. 21, 1925: Soccer is about to pass bullfighting as Spain’s most popular spectator sport, boasts Enrique Alcaraz, captain of the Real Madrid club now touring England. “He predicted that in two years the leading clubs would be made up of professionals” in place of amateurs.

Sept. 21, 1925: Henry “Hickory Slim” Belford, who operates one of Chicago’s biggest bookie rings from Chicago’s Cooper-Carlton Hotel, is kidnapped by four men while driving with his wife. He is freed just as mysteriously the following day, reputedly after paying $4,000 ransom.

Sept. 21, 1925: A meeting of Catholic Church leaders in Brittany, France, including Cardinal Francis Bourne (marked by “2”), the archbishop of Westminster.

Sept. 21, 1925: Charlie Irwin, a baseball third baseman who played nine seasons, highlighted by three years with Cap Anson’s Chicago Colts of the 1890s, is killed at 56 when he’s struck by a bus in Chicago.

Sept. 21, 1925: The sheriff of Marshall County, Ill., and the night police chief of the town of Toluca are shot to death by a man they are attempting to arrest for abuse of his wife. The killer, Joseph Stemas, 60, flees barefoot and in his underwear; air patrols fail to spot him.

Sept. 21, 1925: Rosa Julian of Bridgehampton, N.Y., is fined one cent for violation of Prohibition law by having bootleg liquor at home. It’s the smallest penalty ever assessed in Brooklyn federal court.

Sept. 21, 1925: Troubled model and movie actress Julia Bruns is arrested in New York after admitting she stole $4,000 in jewelry from a tenant to feed a drug habit. The 30-year-old is allowed to take her dogs, Babe and Von Hindenburg, to the jail cell with her.

Sept. 21, 1925: Fashion photography by the Seeberger brothers in Paris: a pullover with a pleated skirt, and an embroidered dress by Paul Poiret.