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The following events occurred in February 1926:

Monday, February 1, 1926 edit

Tuesday, February 2, 1926 edit

Wednesday, February 3, 1926 edit

Thursday, February 4, 1926 edit

  • A $250 million, five-year plan to upgrade the United States Naval Air Force was submitted to the House Committee on Naval Affairs. The plan called to nearly double the number of Navy planes from 638 to 1,248 by the end of 1931.[7]
  • Born: Dave Sands, boxer, in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1952)

Friday, February 5, 1926 edit

  • 10,000 people packed the streets of Los Angeles to watch the funeral procession of actress Barbara La Marr, who died on January 30 at the age of 29. Numerous injuries were reported as onlookers, mostly women, rushed forward to get a view of the silver coffin.[8]

Saturday, February 6, 1926 edit

 
Pancho Villa
  • An unknown party raided the grave of Pancho Villa and stole the Mexican revolutionary leader's skull. The fate of the skull is a mystery and the source of multiple legends, with one holding that it is in the Skull and Bones Crypt at Yale University.[9][10]
  • Benito Mussolini made a defiant speech to his Cabinet on the issue of the Italianization of South Tyrol. Responding to protests from Germany about the oppression of Tyrolean Germans, Mussolini vowed that the policy would "not change by a centimeter" and declared, "We will make this territory Italian because it is Italian geographically and historically." He warned, "If the Germans attempt a boycott, we will answer with boycotts squared. If Germany takes reprisals, we will answer with reprisals cubed."[11]
  • Died: Carrie Clark Ward, 64, American actress

Sunday, February 7, 1926 edit

  • The Italian army seized Jaghbub, the Libyan desert oasis village and home of the Senussi Movement. The column of 2,000 troops met with no resistance.[12]
 
Woodson

Monday, February 8, 1926 edit

Tuesday, February 9, 1926 edit

  • Flooding hit London suburbs after 18 days of rain.[5]
  • The Reichstag passed a declaration responding to Mussolini's speech of February 6, stating that Germany "vigorously rejects the Italian prime minister's objectively unjustifiable and insultingly phrased attacks and sneers." It went on to say, "Although the German people desire nothing more than to promote their own restoration in peaceful coöperation with other peoples, they will not permit themselves to be hindered from demanding the just treatment of German minorities under foreign sovereignty."[15]

Wednesday, February 10, 1926 edit

  • Germany formally applied to join the League of Nations.[16]
  • The war of words between Germany and Italy continued, as Mussolini warned the League of Nations to stay out of the South Tyrol dispute and reaffirmed that Italy would "not accept any discussion of this matter by any assembly or council." Germany responded that it considered the matter closed until such time as it could be addressed by the League.[17]
  • Born: Danny Blanchflower, footballer, in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 1993)
  • Gdynia gains city rights.[18]

Thursday, February 11, 1926 edit

Friday, February 12, 1926 edit

Saturday, February 13, 1926 edit

  • The Calles government ordered all Catholic schools in Mexico to close.[19]
  • Died: Henry Holt, 86, American book publisher and author

Sunday, February 14, 1926 edit

Monday, February 15, 1926 edit

 
PM King elected as an MP

Tuesday, February 16, 1926 edit

Wednesday, February 17, 1926 edit

  • The Grand National Assembly of Turkey approved a secular civil code to regulate matters of marriage, inheritance, divorce and adoption.[21]
  • Born: John Meyendorff, Orthodox theologian, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (d. 1992)

Thursday, February 18, 1926 edit

  • Ayn Rand arrived in the United States.[22]
  • Born: Len Ford, American football player, in Washington, D.C. (d. 1972)

Friday, February 19, 1926 edit

Saturday, February 20, 1926 edit

Sunday, February 21, 1926 edit

  • A pastoral letter read in all the Catholic churches in Austria condemned the "cult of the body" in present-day gymnastics, denouncing mixed bathing, rhythmic dancing and immodest sports attire as "un-Christian."[24]
  • Died: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, 72, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Monday, February 22, 1926 edit

  • 20,000 fans packed the Fulford-Miami Speedway to witness the first race at the world's fastest speedway, won by Pete DePaolo. It was the only race ever held at the speedway, as it was destroyed in the Great Miami Hurricane later that year and never rebuilt.[25]
  • A letter dispatched from Pope Pius XI to the Italian government said that he would not recognize any church reform laws that it passed until an accord was reached, which could not happen as long as the Roman Question remained unsettled.[26]
  • Born: Kenneth Williams, actor, in Islington, London, England (d. 1988)

Tuesday, February 23, 1926 edit

 
President Coolidge
  • In Mexico City, 7 Catholics were killed in clashes between rioters and government agents who were taking over the Church of the Holy Family.[27][28]
  • U.S. President Calvin Coolidge expressed opposition to ex-general Billy Mitchell's advocation of a large air force, saying it would make the United States a militaristic nation and lead to an arms race.[29]

Wednesday, February 24, 1926 edit

Thursday, February 25, 1926 edit

 
General Francisco Franco (left) with his brother Ramón

Friday, February 26, 1926 edit

Saturday, February 27, 1926 edit

Sunday, February 28, 1926 edit

References edit

  1. ^ "The Al Hirschfeld Theatre". Broadway Scene. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  2. ^ "What Happened Today? February 2". Third Reich History: February 2. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  3. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (February 2, 1926). "Secret Trial of 'Black' Slayers Stirs Germany". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 28.
  4. ^ Waldo, Ronald T. (2012). Hazen "Kiki" Cuyler: A Baseball Biography. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-0-7864-6885-0.
  5. ^ a b Mercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
  6. ^ . usmra.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  7. ^ "Double Air Fleet, Navy Plan". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 5, 1926. p. 1.
  8. ^ "Women Riot at Funeral of Miss La Marr". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 6, 1926. p. 1.
  9. ^ Arellano, Gustavo. "¡Ask a Mexican!". Tucson Weekly. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  10. ^ Casey, Nicholas (April 15, 2010). "Pancho Villa Remains Elusive Decades After His Death". The Wall Street Journal.
  11. ^ "Italy Flaunts Mailed Fist in Germany's Face". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 7, 1926. p. 1 and 4.
  12. ^ "Seize Oasis". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 9, 1926. p. 20.
  13. ^ Cobb Jr., Charles E. (2008). On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-56512-439-4.
  14. ^ "The Torrent". Garbo Forever. 2005. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  15. ^ "Italy Seizes Tyrol Arms Cache; Fifty Held". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 10, 1926. p. 1.
  16. ^ a b . indiana.edu. 2002. Archived from the original on April 2, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  17. ^ "News Review of Current Events". The Trenton Sun. Trenton, Illinois: 2. February 11, 1926.
  18. ^ "Historia Gdyni". trojmiasto.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  19. ^ Cornyn, John (February 14, 1926). "Mexico Closes Colleges Run by Catholics". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 3.
  20. ^ "Federal Election Trivia". Parliament of Canada. Library of Parliament. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  21. ^ Cagaptay, Soner (2006). Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey. Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 0-415-38458-3.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ "The Olympia's Original Fan: J.B. Hourihan". Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts. October 23, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  24. ^ Hammond, Lorimer (February 21, 1926). "Church Opens Fight Against "Cult of Body"". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 3.
  25. ^ Vallina, Mercedes (September 18, 2014). "On This Day in Miami History: The World's Fastest Speedway Falls". Ocean Drive. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  26. ^ Clayton, John (February 23, 1926). "Pope Demands Mussolini End Vatican Bonds". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  27. ^ Meyer, Jean A. (1976). The Cristero Rebellion: The Mexican People between Church and State 1926–1929. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-10205-6.
  28. ^ "Report 2 Slain, 16 Hurt in Riot of Churchmen". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 24, 1926. p. 5.
  29. ^ Henning, Arthur Sears (February 24, 1926). "Coolidge Fears Mitchell Leads to Militarism". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 8.
  30. ^ Wales, Henry (February 25, 1926). "French Airman Dead on $100 Belt for U.S. Movies". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 11.
  31. ^ Riccardi, Ricky (February 22, 2011). "Heebie Jeebies". The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  32. ^ clayton, John (February 28, 1926). "Italy Arrests 600 of Mafia; to Be Exiled". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  33. ^ "Titled Millionaire Gives Riches to Aid Peace, Church Unity". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 1, 1926. p. 5.

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Dickson Cudahy Business executive Law professor and United States Circuit judge in Milwaukee Wisconsin d 2015 Died William Madison Wood 68 American textile mill owner suicide Wednesday February 3 1926 editCzech became the official language of Czechoslovakia though minority language rights were guaranteed 5 20 miners were killed in an explosion in Horning Pennsylvania 6 Thursday February 4 1926 editA 250 million five year plan to upgrade the United States Naval Air Force was submitted to the House Committee on Naval Affairs The plan called to nearly double the number of Navy planes from 638 to 1 248 by the end of 1931 7 Born Dave Sands boxer in Kempsey New South Wales Australia d 1952 Friday February 5 1926 edit10 000 people packed the streets of Los Angeles to watch the funeral procession of actress Barbara La Marr who died on January 30 at the age of 29 Numerous injuries were reported as onlookers mostly women rushed forward to get a view of the silver coffin 8 Saturday February 6 1926 edit nbsp Pancho Villa An unknown party raided the grave of Pancho Villa and stole the Mexican revolutionary leader s skull The fate of the skull is a mystery and the source of multiple legends with one holding that it is in the Skull and Bones Crypt at Yale University 9 10 Benito Mussolini made a defiant speech to his Cabinet on the issue of the Italianization of South Tyrol Responding to protests from Germany about the oppression of Tyrolean Germans Mussolini vowed that the policy would not change by a centimeter and declared We will make this territory Italian because it is Italian geographically and historically He warned If the Germans attempt a boycott we will answer with boycotts squared If Germany takes reprisals we will answer with reprisals cubed 11 Died Carrie Clark Ward 64 American actressSunday February 7 1926 editThe Italian army seized Jaghbub the Libyan desert oasis village and home of the Senussi Movement The column of 2 000 troops met with no resistance 12 nbsp Woodson African American historian Carter G Woodson initiated Negro History Week the precursor of Black History Month 13 Born Konstantin Feoktistov cosmonaut in Voronezh USSR d 2009 Monday February 8 1926 editSean O Casey s The Plough and the Stars opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin Torrent the first American film to star Greta Garbo premiered at the Capitol Theatre in New York City ahead of a general release on February 21 14 In Stockholm Sweden Herma Szabo of Austria won the Ladies Competition of the World Figure Skating Championships for the fifth consecutive year Born Neal Cassady writer in Salt Lake City Utah d 1968 Died William Bateson 64 English geneticistTuesday February 9 1926 editFlooding hit London suburbs after 18 days of rain 5 The Reichstag passed a declaration responding to Mussolini s speech of February 6 stating that Germany vigorously rejects the Italian prime minister s objectively unjustifiable and insultingly phrased attacks and sneers It went on to say Although the German people desire nothing more than to promote their own restoration in peaceful cooperation with other peoples they will not permit themselves to be hindered from demanding the just treatment of German minorities under foreign sovereignty 15 Wednesday February 10 1926 editGermany formally applied to join the League of Nations 16 The war of words between Germany and Italy continued as Mussolini warned the League of Nations to stay out of the South Tyrol dispute and reaffirmed that Italy would not accept any discussion of this matter by any assembly or council Germany responded that it considered the matter closed until such time as it could be addressed by the League 17 Born Danny Blanchflower footballer in Belfast Northern Ireland d 1993 Gdynia gains city rights 18 Thursday February 11 1926 editThe Calles government nationalized all property of the Roman Catholic church in Mexico 16 Born Paul Bocuse chef in Collonges au Mont d Or France d 2018 Alexander Gibson composer in Motherwell Scotland d 1995 and Leslie Nielsen actor in Regina Saskatchewan d 2010 Friday February 12 1926 editThe Irish minister for Justice Kevin O Higgins appointed the Committee on Evil Literature Born Joe Garagiola American baseball player and sportscaster in St Louis Missouri d 2016 Saturday February 13 1926 editThe Calles government ordered all Catholic schools in Mexico to close 19 Died Henry Holt 86 American book publisher and authorSunday February 14 1926 editThe Nazi Party held the Bamberg Conference Willy Bockl of Austria won the Men s Competition of the World Figure Skating Championships in Berlin Kikuna Motosumiyoshi Tammachi and Tsunashima railway stations opened in Japan Born Al Brodax producer in Brooklyn New York d 2016 Monday February 15 1926 edit nbsp PM King elected as an MP The Orpheum Theatre opened in Los Angeles Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King won a by election in Prince Albert Saskatchewan ending the unusual situation of a Prime Minister governing without his own seat in the Parliament 20 Tuesday February 16 1926 editFrench tennis star Suzanne Lenglen defeated U S champion Helen Wills in a special match at Cannes Born Margot Frank older sister of Anne Frank d 1945 and John Schlesinger actor and director in Palm Springs California d 2003 Wednesday February 17 1926 editThe Grand National Assembly of Turkey approved a secular civil code to regulate matters of marriage inheritance divorce and adoption 21 Born John Meyendorff Orthodox theologian in Neuilly sur Seine France d 1992 Thursday February 18 1926 editAyn Rand arrived in the United States 22 Born Len Ford American football player in Washington D C d 1972 Friday February 19 1926 editThe Olympia Theatre opened in Miami Florida 23 Saturday February 20 1926 editThe Berlin International Green Week debuted in Berlin Born Whitney Blake actress in Eagle Rock Los Angeles California d 2002 Richard Matheson writer in Allendale New Jersey d 2013 and Bob Richards track and field athlete in Champaign Illinois d 2023 Sunday February 21 1926 editA pastoral letter read in all the Catholic churches in Austria condemned the cult of the body in present day gymnastics denouncing mixed bathing rhythmic dancing and immodest sports attire as un Christian 24 Died Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 72 Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureateMonday February 22 1926 edit20 000 fans packed the Fulford Miami Speedway to witness the first race at the world s fastest speedway won by Pete DePaolo It was the only race ever held at the speedway as it was destroyed in the Great Miami Hurricane later that year and never rebuilt 25 A letter dispatched from Pope Pius XI to the Italian government said that he would not recognize any church reform laws that it passed until an accord was reached which could not happen as long as the Roman Question remained unsettled 26 Born Kenneth Williams actor in Islington London England d 1988 Tuesday February 23 1926 edit nbsp President Coolidge In Mexico City 7 Catholics were killed in clashes between rioters and government agents who were taking over the Church of the Holy Family 27 28 U S President Calvin Coolidge expressed opposition to ex general Billy Mitchell s advocation of a large air force saying it would make the United States a militaristic nation and lead to an arms race 29 Wednesday February 24 1926 editFrench pilot Leon Collet was killed attempting to fly under the arch of the Eiffel Tower in a filmed stunt The plane struck an aerial belonging to the wireless station 30 The film La Boheme starring Lillian Gish and John Gilbert opened Died John Jacob Bausch 95 German American optician who co founded Bausch amp Lomb and Eddie Plank 50 American baseball player and MLB Hall of FamerThursday February 25 1926 edit nbsp General Francisco Franco left with his brother Ramon Spanish Army Colonel and future dictator of Spain Francisco Franco was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General Born Billy Darnell professional wrestler in Camden New Jersey d 2007 Friday February 26 1926 editAt Madison Square Garden Tiger Flowers defeated Harry Greb to win boxing s World Middleweight Title Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five recorded Heebie Jeebies the song that made Armstrong a star as well as the first to popularize the technique of scat singing 31 Saturday February 27 1926 edit600 members of the Sicilian Mafia were arrested in Italy including two mayors and other municipal officials 32 Born David H Hubel neurophysiologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Windsor Ontario Canada d 2013 Sunday February 28 1926 editHenry Simpson Lunn announced that he would turn over all his property and income except for 2 500 a year to promote unity among all churches and nations 33 Born Svetlana Alliluyeva writer and only daughter of Joseph Stalin in Moscow d 2011 References edit The Al Hirschfeld Theatre Broadway Scene Retrieved January 3 2015 What Happened Today February 2 Third Reich History February 2 Retrieved January 3 2015 Schultz Sigrid February 2 1926 Secret Trial of Black Slayers Stirs Germany Chicago Daily Tribune p 28 Waldo Ronald T 2012 Hazen Kiki Cuyler A Baseball Biography pp 69 70 ISBN 978 0 7864 6885 0 a b Mercer Derrik 1989 Chronicle of the 20th Century London Chronicle Communications Ltd p 339 ISBN 978 0 582 03919 3 Mine Accidents and Disasters usmra com Archived from the original on January 3 2015 Retrieved January 3 2015 Double Air Fleet Navy Plan Chicago Daily Tribune February 5 1926 p 1 Women Riot at Funeral of Miss La Marr Chicago Daily Tribune February 6 1926 p 1 Arellano Gustavo Ask a Mexican Tucson Weekly Retrieved January 3 2015 Casey Nicholas April 15 2010 Pancho Villa Remains Elusive Decades After His Death The Wall Street Journal Italy Flaunts Mailed Fist in Germany s Face Chicago Daily Tribune February 7 1926 p 1 and 4 Seize Oasis Chicago Daily Tribune February 9 1926 p 20 Cobb Jr Charles E 2008 On the Road to Freedom A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail Chapel Hill North Carolina Algonquin Books p 28 ISBN 978 1 56512 439 4 The Torrent Garbo Forever 2005 Retrieved January 3 2015 Italy Seizes Tyrol Arms Cache Fifty Held Chicago Daily Tribune February 10 1926 p 1 a b Chronology 1926 indiana edu 2002 Archived from the original on April 2 2020 Retrieved January 3 2015 News Review of Current Events The Trenton Sun Trenton Illinois 2 February 11 1926 Historia Gdyni trojmiasto pl in Polish Retrieved 2024 01 12 Cornyn John February 14 1926 Mexico Closes Colleges Run by Catholics Chicago Daily Tribune p 3 Federal Election Trivia Parliament of Canada Library of Parliament Retrieved January 3 2015 Cagaptay Soner 2006 Islam Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey Routledge p 13 ISBN 0 415 38458 3 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 The Olympia s Original Fan J B Hourihan Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts October 23 2008 Retrieved January 3 2015 Hammond Lorimer February 21 1926 Church Opens Fight Against Cult of Body Chicago Daily Tribune p 3 Vallina Mercedes September 18 2014 On This Day in Miami History The World s Fastest Speedway Falls Ocean Drive Retrieved January 3 2015 Clayton John February 23 1926 Pope Demands Mussolini End Vatican Bonds Chicago Daily Tribune p 1 Meyer Jean A 1976 The Cristero Rebellion The Mexican People between Church and State 1926 1929 Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 10205 6 Report 2 Slain 16 Hurt in Riot of Churchmen Chicago Daily Tribune February 24 1926 p 5 Henning Arthur Sears February 24 1926 Coolidge Fears Mitchell Leads to Militarism Chicago Daily Tribune p 8 Wales Henry February 25 1926 French Airman Dead on 100 Belt for U S Movies Chicago Daily Tribune p 11 Riccardi Ricky February 22 2011 Heebie Jeebies The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong Retrieved January 3 2015 clayton John February 28 1926 Italy Arrests 600 of Mafia to Be Exiled Chicago Daily Tribune p 1 Titled Millionaire Gives Riches to Aid Peace Church Unity Chicago Daily Tribune March 1 1926 p 5 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title February 1926 amp oldid 1197405884, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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