Nov. 6, 1925: Elliott Gabler, the president of a bankrupt engineering company in Dayton, Ohio, steals $10,000 to avoid being delinquent on his taxes—not through embezzlement, but by robbing a bank at gunpoint. He confesses the holdup and will be sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Nov. 6, 1925: Michel Bouquet, a French actor often seen in New Wave cinema as a seemingly ordinary man whose placidity conceals an inner turmoil, is born in Paris. He appeared in over 120 movie and TV roles and won the César, France's top movie award, twice in his 70s.

Nov. 6, 1925: Eleven-year-old Audrey Dawson proudly shows his friends the three chickens he recovered from a crate that fell from a truck on New York’s East Side, and will be served for family dinner tonight.

Nov. 6, 1925: Arthur Henderson (left), who served as home secretary in Britain’s Labor government last year, is greeted by U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg during a Washington visit.

Nov. 6, 1925: German business leaders are seen in Paris, where they are attending an International Chamber of Commerce meeting. German-French relations are thawing in the wake of the Locarno Treaties.

Nov. 6, 1925: René Hanriot, a French aviation pioneer as a pilot and aircraft designer, dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He manufactured the stick-like Hanriot monoplane that first flew in 1909 and fighters used by Belgium and Italy during WWI, as well as boats and automobiles.

Nov. 6, 1925: Russian dancer Natacha Nattova and her French partner Gene Myrio arrive on the liner Aquitania in New York for a much-anticipated vaudeville tour after triumphs in London and Paris.

Nov. 6, 1925: A panorama of the Dix River hydroelectric power project on Lake Herrington in Kentucky.

Nov. 6, 1925: Belgium will cease prosecuting Germans for war crimes committed during WWI, including mass executions of civilians. The government says it acts in the spirit of normalizing relations with Berlin. The cases had been academic, as all defendants were tried in absentia.

Nov. 6, 1925: U.S. Steel leads a broad rally of the stock market as the Dow Jones industrial average reaches its high this year of 157.67. The Dow has set a record 65 times in this year of "Coolidge prosperity," which will itself be a record until surpassed in 1995.

Nov. 6, 1925: “There is no good liquor being sold in the United States today,” Rep. Grant Hudson (R-Mich.) tells an Anti-Saloon League convention. Drinkers “risk blindness, paralysis and quick death. If any man is fool enough to drink it, I can't say I have any sympathy for him.”

Nov. 6, 1925: A painting by Chigusa Kitani, “The Sorrow of Cutting Off the Eyebrows,” is viewed at the Tokyo Art Exhibition. Japanese police had tried to ban it as immoral because it displays too much of the woman’s form, but were overruled.

Nov. 6, 1925: William Jackson, a Black contractor of Montclair, N.J., and Helen Burns, who is white, obtain a marriage license in New York. He returns home to find a cross burning in his front yard. Two days later, under pressure from her parents, Burns calls off the wedding.

Nov. 6, 1925: A portrait of John Two Guns White Calf, a chief of the Piegan Blackfeet of Montana, taken after he attended a powwow of Indian leaders in Spokane, Wash. His profile will later inspire the logo of the Washington Redskins, now the Washington Commanders.

Nov. 6, 1925: Khai Dinh, the puppet emperor of Vietnam under French rule since 1916, dies at 40 of tuberculosis in Hue. His 12-year-old son, Vinh Thuy, a student in France, will succeed him under the name Bao Dai.

Nov. 6, 1925: Kliment Voroshilov, commander of the Red Army’s Moscow district, is named Soviet war minister to succeed the late Mikhail Frunze. He is noted for “modesty and lack of excessive talents,” qualities that likely explain how he will survive Stalin’s purges of the 1930s.

Nov. 6, 1925: The first young patient of the Union Health Center Dental Clinic copes with an examination as the facility opens in New York. Members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and their families receive care through the clinic.

Nov. 6, 1925: Forces led by Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek capture the city of Shantou in the opening battle of what is called the Eastern Expedition to unify Guangdong (Canton) province. The army of warlord Chen Jiongming hastily withdraws from the port city. 1/2

Nov. 6, 1925: At 6-foot-4, Babe Ruby is believed to be the tallest player in women’s basketball. She stands out on the team fielded by Thompson Business College of York, Pa.

Nov. 6, 1925: A crowd of over 20,000 at Baltimore's Pimlico track watches the Futurity Stakes, won by a 2-year-old horse named Canter.

Nov. 5, 1925: Scientist Charles Kellogg gives a demonstration to Boston firefighters on the how sound vibrations can extinguish a gas flame. Although the department finds his technique interesting, it has no plans to use his talents in the field.

Nov. 5, 1925: The new chamber music auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington.

Nov. 5, 1925: Members of Toronto's Italian community honor the British Empire's WWI dead on the seventh anniversary of Italy's triumph in its war against Austria-Hungary.

Nov. 5, 1925: Soldier of fortune Joe Stehlin returns home to New York from North Africa with what he claims is a crown jewel of Morocco called the Sultana Diamond worth $500,000. Experts are dubious.

Nov. 5, 1925: Swiss engineer Jules Jaeger presents this plan to build a bridge across the English Channel, with breakwaters to protect the span and a canal between the lanes of combined rail and road traffic. He argues it would be cheaper than building a much-talked-about tunnel.

Nov. 5, 1925: People of Kirkuk, Iraq, assist in a dig at the site of the lost Assyrian city of Nuzi being carried out by U.S. archaeologist Edward Chiera. The exploration has already yielded several thousand clay tablets as old as 3,400 years ago.

Nov. 5, 1925: Composer John Foulds (left) goes over his “Armistice Night Requiem” with singer Ben Davies, who will perform the piece at Queen’s Hall in London on Nov. 11.

Nov. 5, 1925: Italian playwright and producer Luigi Pirandello rehearses his actors for a staging of his drama "Henry IV" in Berlin.

Nov. 5, 1925: Washington debutantes enroll sailors aboard the presidential yacht, the Mayflower, in a Red Cross fundraising drive.

Nov. 5, 1925: A Ku Ku Klux funeral in Hillside, N.J., for William J. Clark, a Klansman who was beaten to death with a hammer. A man has been charged with the killing, allegedly so he could elope with Clark's widow. She is detained at the funeral as a material witness. 1/3

Nov. 5, 1925: Swiss engineer Jules Jaeger presents this plan to build a bridge across the English Channel, with breakwaters to protect the span and a canal between the lanes of combined rail and road traffic. He argues it would be cheaper than building a much-talked-about tunnel.

Nov. 5, 1925: John Newport Langley, a British physiologist who made many important discoveries about the nervous system, dies at 73 in Cambridge. He helped develop the theory that the body has sensory receptors that use chemical substances to elicit a signal.

Nov. 5, 1925: The "Courtiers of Prince Seti" are the winners of a Guy Fawkes Day masquerade competition in Bridgewater, England.

Nov. 5, 1925: The Bronx River Parkway, the first limited-access highway in the U.S. to be built through a park, is completed with a ceremony in Valhalla in New York's Westchester County. Construction of the 15-mile road had began in 1907.

Nov. 5, 1925: Girl Scouts make preparations for a lunch they will serve at their "Little House" this weekend in Washington, D.C., to President and Mrs. Coolidge.

Nov. 5, 1925: Disabled veterans are treated to a healthy snack to mark National Apple Week at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Nov. 5, 1925: Steve Chekaluk, a pitcher from Alaska billed as baseball's first "Eskimo prospect," wears a parka and native print as he winds up in Oakland. The 26-year-old righthander who pitched briefly for Seattle's Pacific Coast League team in 1925 will never make the bigs.

Nov. 5, 1925: A day after an assassination plot against Mussolini was foiled, the Fascist regime has Socialist Party offices closed in Rome, supposedly for the leftists' own protection. All other socialist and Freemason gathering places are similarly shuttered.

Nov. 5, 1925: Princess Asaka, the sister of Japanese Emperor Yoshihito, plays golf at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N.Y. A day earlier she and her husband the prince arrived for a New York visit after three years abroad.

Nov. 5, 1925: First lady Grace Coolidge gets a tour of Washington’s annual chrysanthemum show from Agriculture Secretary William Jardine.

Nov. 5, 1925: A murder trial begins in Detroit for Black physician Ossian Sweet and 10 others for firing a shot that killed a man as a white mob threatened the house. The Sweet family had aroused a racist fury by moving to an all-white neighborhood. The jury is all-white too. 1/2

Nov. 5, 1925: The Post Office bans the latest issue of humor magazine Judge from the mails because it’s sprinkled with too many sexy burlesque touches. Editors protest to no avail that the “Parisian Number” is a satire on Americans’ preconceptions about French culture.

Nov. 5, 1925: A peek inside the first "flying restaurant" aboard an Imperial Airways flight from London and Paris. The cabin of the Vickers Vanguard airliner is fitted with a furnished kitchen, with room for 22 passengers at the tables.

Nov. 5, 1925: Sidney Reilly, a shadowy British agent known as the "Ace of Spies," is executed by the Soviet Union. The 51-year-old had been tricked into returning to his native Russia by Kremlin operatives posing as anti-Communist plotters, and is shot in a forest outside Moscow. 1/2

Nov. 5, 1925: The Washington Senators' venerable pitcher Walter Johnson and his family at their new winter home in Daytona Beach, Fla. The hard-throwing ace, who turns 38 tomorrow, will shake off his tough Game 7 loss in the World Series and return for another season in 1926.

Nov. 5, 1925: "The Big Parade" premieres in Los Angeles. The WWI epic will become the blockbuster movie of the decade, generating an eye-popping gross of $6 million. It sets a standard for realism and excitement in war films and makes a major star of its lead, John Gilbert. 1/6

Nov. 4, 1925: Queen Victoria of Spain, on a visit to fellow royals in Britain, leaves Kensington Palace for a shopping trip.

Nov. 4, 1925: President Coolidge welcomes John McQuigg, the new national commander of the American Legion, to the White House for a visit.

Nov. 4, 1925: A plot to assassinate Italy’s Benito Mussolini is foiled moments before the sniper is to take aim at the dictator in Rome. Tito Zaniboni is betrayed by an informer and arrested in a hotel overlooking a balcony where Mussolini was about to give a speech. 1/4

Nov. 4, 1925: Congress’ Republican leadership agrees to make a tax cut their priority at the session beginning next month. “We are determined first to carry out the government’s program of economy,” says House Speaker-designate Nicholas Longworth.