January 1926

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January 26, 1926: John Logie Baird demonstrates his television camera.
January 8, 1926: Ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz, later Saudi Arabia.
January 31, 1926: Prime Minister Benito Mussolini is given the power to rule Italy by decree.
January 8, 1926: Bao Dai becomes Emperor of Vietnam.

January 1, 1926 (Friday)

January 2, 1926 (Saturday)

January 3, 1926 (Sunday)

January 4, 1926 (Monday)

Prince Carol and Miss Lupescu

January 5, 1926 (Tuesday)

January 6, 1926 (Wednesday)

January 7, 1926 (Thursday)

  • Ongoing downpours in Europe submerged Great War cemeteries in France and flooded the London subway system.[31]
  • The 15th Canadian Parliament was seated. William Lyon Mackenzie King continued as Prime Minister despite the Conservatives winning more seats in the last federal election, by forming a coalition with the Progressives. King had no seat in the House of Representatives after losing the election in the district of York North, Ontario.[32]
  • The Dartmouth Indians were announced as having been the number one team in U.S. college football for the 1925 season, as a University of Illinois economics professor released the first ratings under what was called the Dickinson System.[33] Under his ratings, which used a measurement that considered overall records, number of games, margins of victory or loss, and strength of the opponent, Dartmouth finished first with 20.00 points, while Michigan and Alabama were tied for second at 19.18 points. In order, the other teams in the Top 11 were Colgate, Missouri, Tulane, Washington, Wisconsin and Stanford, Pitt, and Lafayette College.
Allen and Burns in 1924

January 8, 1926 (Friday)

January 9, 1926 (Saturday)

  • A band of 20 Mexican rebels, under the command of Colonel Manuel Núñez, opened fire aboard a train traveling from Guadalajara to Mexico City, then looted and burned the cars.[46] The train had passed Vista Hermosa de Negrete and was approaching Yurécuaro in the state of Michoacan when the bandits brought it to a halt. Afterward, the bandits escaped on the engine, "carrying away 300,000 pesos in plunder" (equivalent to about U.S.$150,000) of cash and bar silver. Although initial reports reported that as many as 50 guards and passengers were murdered,[47] the figure was later revised to 11 deaths, all of whom had been guards.[48]
  • 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.[49]
  • In Botswana, at the time the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Tshekedi Khama was named as the regent for his 4-year-old nephew, future Botswana president Seretse Khama and Kgosi (monarch) of the ruling Bamangwato people. Tshkedi would serve as the de facto ruler of the Bechuanaland natives until 1949, when he would step aside in light of the reaffirmation of Seretse's rule by the tribal elders.[50]
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  • Died: William Henry Warren, 73, Australian engineer, lawyer and professor, died nine days after his retirement from the University of Sydney.[54]

January 10, 1926 (Sunday)

  • Hernando Siles was sworn into office as the new President of Bolivia after having won the presidential election held on December 1, 1925.[55]
  • Voting was held in the European principality of Liechtenstein for all 15 seats of the nation's parliament, the Landtag. The Christlich-Soziale Volkspartei (CSV) won 8 seats for a majority while the Fortschrittliche Bürgerpartei (FBP) won 6. A runoff election took place on January 24 for the other seat, which went to the Christian Socialists for a 9 to 6 majority, down from the 11 to 4 it had previously held.[56]
  • In the U.S., the capsizing of the four-masted schooner Prinz Valdemar blocked all ship traffic in and out of Biscayne Bay and the harbor of Miami, Florida. The 35-year old Danish barkentine ship had been sold to investors for conversion to a floating hotel and was stranded on a sandbar at low tide when it became top-heavy and tipped over. The 80 construction workers on board were rescued unharmed[57] but two ocean liners, the George Washington and the Seneca, were unable to leave, and other ships at sea were unable to sail in.[58]
  • 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.[59][60]
  • A tournament to decide the championship of Gaelic football was won by the Galway GAA Tribesmen at Croke Park in Dublin. Because of problems in going beyond the semifinal round of the 1925 tournament, no final had been held and Galway had been declared champion by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) on December 5. A tournament of four teams was organized, and Galway defeated Wexford GAA, 3–2 to 1-2 (equivalent to an 11 to 5 win).[61]
  • Born: Carol Duvall, American TV personality whose arts and crafts program, The Carol Duvall Show ran for 12 seasons on the HGTV cable channel; as Carol-Jean Reihmer in Milwaukee.(d. 2023)[62]

January 11, 1926 (Monday)

  • U.S. Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky's 10th Congressional District, resigned after 19 years in Congress, because the U.S. Supreme Court had affirmed his jail sentence for violating the prohibition laws by illegally selling alcohol to New York bootleggers in organized crime. Over three years during the prohibition era, Congressman Langley had deposited $115,000 in his bank account while earning only $22,500 in salary.[63]
  • 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, the largest haul of their crime spree. Sentenced to two years in prison, he would be pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge at the end of 1928.[64]
  • One of the most heavily promoted U.S. films of the year, the comedy The American Venus, starring Esther Ralston, Ford Sterling and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and featuring the reigning Miss America, Fay Lanphier, had its world premiere for the public, appearing at the home of the Miss America pageant, Atlantic City, New Jersey.[65]
  • Born: Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut who was launched into space on Soyuz 15 in 1974; in Moscow (d. 1998)[66]

January 12, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • The Director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Dr. Émile Roux, announced the discovery of an antitoxin vaccine that could provide immunity against tetanus. The serum, developed by Dr. Gaston Ramon and Dr. Christian Zoeller of the institute, had been successfully tested on more than 100 patients.[67]
  • Toray Industries, one of the world's largest producers of synthetic fiber and the largest producer of carbon fiber, was created in Japan as Toyo Rayon Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., with Mitsui managing director Yunosuke Yasukawa serving as the new company's first chairman.[68]
Correll and Gosden

January 13, 1926 (Wednesday)

January 14, 1926 (Thursday)

January 15, 1926 (Friday)

January 16, 1926 (Saturday)

  • A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox about a workers' revolution caused a panic in London.[87] Father Ronald Knox, a former Anglican priest who had become a Roman Catholic priest, wrote and performed what was intended as a comedic skit, ""Broadcasting the Barricades". Although the program was preceded by an announcement that it was fiction and not meant to be taken seriously, listeners who tuned in later were unaware that the "live" news reports of a destructive workers' revolution in London were fiction.[88][89]
  • The French language operetta Passionnément, by André Messager and Albert Willemetz was performed for the first time, premiering at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris.[90]
  • Born: Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan anti-government political activist who spent 17 years in prison (from 1974 to 1991) for his campaign against Morocco's King Hassan II; in Casablanca (d. 2010)[91]
  • Died: Jean Georges Bouyer, 35, French World War I flying ace credited with 11 confirmed aerial victories, was killed in a plane crash.[92]

January 17, 1926 (Sunday)

Ayn Rand

January 18, 1926 (Monday)

The original movie poster for Bronenoseya Potemkin
  • Battleship Potemkin, the renowned Russian film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, was given its premiere, with the first public viewing held at Moscow's Goskinoteatre.[98]
  • In the U.S. state of Alabama, African-American votings rights activist Indiana Little led several hundred black men and women on a march to the Jefferson County registrar's office in Birmingham to demand the right to register on the same terms as white people, after having been denied a week earlier.[99][100][101] After refusing to leave, Little was arrested for disturbing the peace, and released after posting a $300 bond. She would not be registered to vote until more than 30 years later, in 1957.[102]
  • The Italianization of South Tyrol escalated as the government issued a decree requiring citizens of South Tyrol, which had been ceded to Italy by Austria after World War One, to "Italianize" any names and titles of nobility "which have been translated into other languages or deformed by foreign orthography or foreign endings" by the primarily German-speaking population. Failure to comply carried a fine of up to 1,000 lira.[103] Among the changes were that "Bozen" had become "Bolzano", Brixen was "Bressanone", Schlanders was "Silandro" and Kastelruth was "Castelrotto".
  • Born: Salah Zulfikar, Egyptian film actor and producer known for multiple hit films, including Aghla Min Hayati (Dearer than my Life) as co-star with his future wife Shadia (Fatma Ahmad Kamal Shaker); in El Mahalla El Kubra (d. 1993)[104]

January 19, 1926 (Tuesday)

January 20, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • Martin James Durkin, hunted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation for murder after the October 11 killing of FBI Special Agent Edwin C. Shanahan, was arrested after having been recognized by a railroad ticket agent in Alpine, Texas. Durkin had boarded a train at San Antonio, Texas to travel to St. Louis, and was picked up after the FBI asked the train to stop at Webster Groves, Missouri, outside of St. Louis city limits.[112] Durkin was convicted of murder, but spared the death penalty, and would spend 28 years in prison until his 1954 parole.[113]
  • German Chancellor Dr. Hans Luther formed his second cabinet, a minority coalition involving the Centre Party, German People's Party and National People's Party.[114]
  • A gale in the Atlantic Ocean threatened multiple ships near New York City, stopping ocean liners from continuing their voyages. The storm was threatening to sink two British freighters that had sent out S.O.S. distress calls, SS Antinoe and SS Laristan. The U.S. luxury liner SS President Roosevelt went to the rescue of the Antinoe. Although initial reports were that the SS Antinoe sank in the storm,[115] the President Roosevelt, commanded by Captain George Fried, remained in the heavy seas and would complete rescue of all 25 of the Antinoe crew on January 28.
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January 21, 1926 (Thursday)

January 22, 1926 (Friday)

  • The Manila Symphony Orchestra, organized by Alexander Lippay, held its first concert, premiering at the Manila Grand Opera House.[123]
  • 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.[105]
  • Born: Peter J. Hall, British-born American costume designer for theatre; in Bristol (d. 2010)[124]

January 23, 1926 (Saturday)

January 24, 1926 (Sunday)

January 25, 1926 (Monday)

  • A strike of textile workers that would eventually be carried out by 15,000 employees in the U.S. city of Passaic, New Jersey was triggered by the firing of an employee by the Botany Worsted Mills in retaliation for his attempt to organize workers to join the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL).[138] The TUEL was a front for the Workers Party of America, later the Communist Party USA.
  • Sir Berkeley Moynihan, an eminent British surgeon, spoke at the Leeds Luncheon Club on behalf of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, which had launched a nationwide fundraiser for the Yorkshire Council of the campaign. In his speech, Moynihan startled the crowd by saying "If the law of averages holds good, 60 people in this room will die of cancer," citing statistics that one out of every six people over the age of 30 eventually succumbed to a form of cancer.[139] Moynihan said also that cancer of the tongue was "traceable to one or both of two causes— syphilis and smoking, both of which came from America.[140]
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January 26, 1926 (Tuesday)

January 27, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • The U.S. Senate voted, 76 to 17, in favor of joining the World Court, but with several specific reservations.[145]
  • At least 30 German Communists and 12 Monarchists were wounded in street fighting between the groups 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.[146]
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January 28, 1926 (Thursday)

January 29, 1926 (Friday)

January 30, 1926 (Saturday)

  • Reijirō Wakatsuki, Japan's Minister of Home Affairs, formed a new government as Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Katō Takaaki, who had died two days earlier.
  • In the U.S., a gas explosion killed 27 miners in Mossboro, Alabama, while another 26 escaped unhurt.[161]
  • The Allied occupation of the first zone of the Rhineland in Germany formally ended. At 3:00 in the afternoon, local time, 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.[162]
  • Died:
    • Barbara La Marr, 29, American film actress, died of complications from tuberculosis and kidney failure.[163]
    • Harold M. Shaw, 48, American film director and secretary of the Motion Picture Directors' Association, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles, when the car in which he was a passenger collided with another vehicle at the intersection of Sixth Street and Rossmore Avenue.[164]
    • José Marina Vega, 75, former War Minister of Spain [165]

January 31, 1926 (Sunday)

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