January 1926

The following events occurred in January 1926:

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Friday, January 1, 1926

Saturday, January 2, 1926

Sunday, January 3, 1926

Monday, January 4, 1926

Prince Carol and Miss Lupescu

Tuesday, January 5, 1926

Wednesday, January 6, 1926

Thursday, January 7, 1926

Friday, January 8, 1926

King Ibn Saud
Emperor Bao Dai

Saturday, January 9, 1926

  • The Navy League of the United States released a report finding the United States Navy to be unprepared for war and well short of the tonnage limitation set by the Washington Naval Treaty.[8]
  • A band of twenty Mexican rebels opened fire aboard the Guadalajara-Mexico City train, then looted and burned the train. An estimated twenty to fifty people were killed and about 300,000 pesos (about $150,000 US) worth of cash and bar silver were stolen.[9][10]

Sunday, January 10, 1926

  • Mexican federal troops tracked down bandits responsible for the previous evening's train massacre to a ranch in Jalisco and engaged them in a shootout. Most of the rebels were killed in the fighting, and eight who were captured were immediately executed. All the stolen loot was recovered.[10][11]

Monday, January 11, 1926

  • The Whittemore Gang robbed Belgian diamond merchants Albert Goudris and Emanuel Veerman on West 48th Street in Manhattan, making off with $175,000 in gems.
  • Born: Lev Dyomin, astronaut, in Moscow (d. 1998)

Tuesday, January 12, 1926

Correll and Gosden

Wednesday, January 13, 1926

Thursday, January 14, 1926

Friday, January 15, 1926

Saturday, January 16, 1926

  • A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox about a workers' revolution caused a panic in London.[15]

Sunday, January 17, 1926

Ayn Rand
  • Twenty-year-old Ayn Rand left Russia, departing from Leningrad by train. Her early life experiences in Communist Russia were a major influence on her philosophy.[16]
  • Born: Moira Shearer, ballet dancer and actress, in Dunfermline, Scotland (d. 2006)

Monday, January 18, 1926

  • The Italianization of South Tyrol escalated as the government issued a decree requiring citizens of South Tyrol to Italianize any names and titles of nobility "which have been translated into other languages or deformed by foreign orthography or foreign endings." Failure to comply carried a fine of up to 1,000 lira.[17]

Tuesday, January 19, 1926

  • Lev Karakhan, the Soviet ambassador to China, sent a protest to the Chinese Foreign Ministry warning of "serious consequences" if a dispute over the two countries' joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway was not resolved. Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin had been seizing parts of the railway line and arresting Soviet officials in retaliation for a decision that made Chinese troops pay half-fare instead of being allowed to ride for free.[18] The dispute was a precursor to the Sino Soviet Conflict of 1929.
  • Born: Fritz Weaver, actor, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)

Wednesday, January 20, 1926

Thursday, January 21, 1926

Friday, January 22, 1926

  • Soviet Foreign Minister Georgy Chicherin sent a threatening note to the Manchurian government seeking "permission" for the Soviet army to enter Manchuria if the Chinese Eastern Railway's administration was not restored. Manchuria responded by agreeing to comply, ending the crisis.[18]

Saturday, January 23, 1926

Sunday, January 24, 1926

  • The Third International Radio Week began, featuring transatlantic tests of distance reception. Listeners in New York and Chicago reported successful reception of English and South American radio broadcasts.[22]

Monday, January 25, 1926

Tuesday, January 26, 1926

Baird and his television camera

Wednesday, January 27, 1926

  • The U.S. Senate voted in favor of joining the World Court, but with several specific reservations.[13]
  • 30 communists and 12 monarchists were wounded in street fighting in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin during demonstrations on the birthday of the former Kaiser, Wilhelm II. The fighting broke out as communists paraded an effigy of the ex-Kaiser hanged from a gallows. Riot police opened fire after attempts to separate the combatants were met with attacks from both sides.[24]
  • Born: Fritz Spiegl, musician, journalist and broadcaster, in Zurndorf, Austria (d. 2003); and Ingrid Thulin, actress, in Sollefteå, Sweden (d. 2004)

Thursday, January 28, 1926

Friday, January 29, 1926

Saturday, January 30, 1926

  • 27 miners were killed in a gas explosion in Mossboro, Alabama; 26 escaped unhurt.[26]
  • The Allied occupation of the first zone of the Rhineland ended. At 15:00 hours the British, French and Belgians in the zone all hauled down their flags and withdrew their remaining troops in advance of much of the Rhineland's sovereignty being formally returned to Germany at the stroke of midnight.[27]
  • Died: Barbara La Marr, 29, American actress (complications from tuberculosis)

Sunday, January 31, 1926

Mussolini

References

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  2. "1925 College Football National Championship". TipTop25. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  3. Skene, Don (January 3, 1926). "Europe Takes to Boats as Deluge Swells Rivers". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 4.
  4. "Bruce Harlan Biography and Olympic Results". Sports Reference LLC. 2012. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  5. Mercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
  6. Wales, Henry (January 8, 1926). "Yank Graves Under Floods". Chicago Daily Tribune. pp. 1–2.
  7. "Federal Election Trivia". Parliament of Canada. Library of Parliament. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  8. Henning, Arthur Sears (January 10, 1926). "Fleet Unfit and Getting Worse, Country Told". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  9. Cornyn, John (January 11, 1926). "Mexican Rebel Band Kills U.S. Man and Troops". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  10. "Mexican Troops Kill Bandits and Recover Loot". The Troy Times. Troy, N.Y. January 12, 1926.
  11. Wynkoop, Christopher (2006). "The Guadalajara-Mexico City Train Massacre". Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  12. "Coal Mine Disasters in the United States by State: Oklahoma". usmra.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  13. "Chronology 1926". indiana.edu. 2002. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  14. "Germany Balks at League until Rhine Army Cut". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 15, 1926. p. 11.
  15. "The BBC Radio Panic, 1926". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  16. Mayhew, Robert (2005). Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 75. ISBN 0-8108-5276-4.
  17. "Tyrol Citizens Told to Make Names Italian". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 19, 1926. p. 3.
  18. Elleman, Bruce (2009). Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China 1925–30. New York: Routledge. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-203-88160-6.
  19. Collier, Martin; Pedley, Philip (2000). Germany 1919–45. Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers. p. 35. ISBN 0-435-32721-6.
  20. Roberts, Warren; Poplawski, Paul (2001). A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence (Third ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 118. ISBN 0-521-39182-2.
  21. "Shrine Auditorium". CinemaTour. Vision Entertainment Services. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  22. "Chicago Fans Hear Britain, South America". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 25, 1926. p. 1.
  23. "Palos de la Frontera". Discover Huelva. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  24. Schultz, Sigrid (January 28, 1926). "Fleet Unfit and Getting Worse, Country Told". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 5.
  25. Allen Jay (January 29, 1926). "Belgium Gives Mercier Hero's Final Homage". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 18.
  26. "53 Trapped in Alabama Coal Pit; Rescue 26". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 30, 1926. p. 1.
  27. "Cologne Cheers as British Haul Down Union Jack". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 31, 1926. p. 3.
  28. Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta (1997). Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 61. ISBN 0-520-22677-1.
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