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June 30, 1925
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Headlines from June 30, 1925
TREMORS CONTINUE ALL DAY; Second Big Shock in Early Morning Causes Most Damage to City. BURST DAM BRINGS FLOOD Principal Buildings Are Razed or Damaged, Including Famous Spanish Mission. COMPLETE ORDER PREVAILS Citizens Start Plans for Reconstruction, Mayor Declaring Outside Aid Is Not Needed. VIEW OF SANTA BARBARA AND BUILDINGS DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE.
On earthquake at Santa Barbara, Cal
EXPERTS DIVIDED ON CAUSE OF SHOCKS; Ocean Leakage, Snapping of Earth's Crust and Other Reasons Are Given. DEBATE MONTANA TREMORS Some Believe They Had No Connection With Movements in California.
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Another Old Broadway Landmark Will Pass With Closing of Browne's Chop House Tonight
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MANY WEIRD EXPERIENCES; Buildings Buffeted Like Ships in Storm, Eyewitnesses Say. CRUNCHING SOUNDS HEARD Hotel's Walls Fall Away, Leaving Guests Lying Safely Abed on All Floors. TRAIN ROCKS LIKE CRADLE Los Angeles Man Aboard Sees Trees Shaking, Houses Moving and People Running From Them EYE WITNESSES TELL EFFECTS OF SHOCKS
Account of earthquake in Santa Barbara
Notable Births

1925Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)[โ ]
Frederick Appleton Schaus was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Association's Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks, general manager and head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, head coach of Purdue University basketball, and a member of the NCAA Basketball Committee. He was born in Newark, Ohio.
1925Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (died 2020)[โ ]
Ebrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was an Iranian principlist politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.