March 1926

Month of 1926 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following events occurred in March 1926:

More information Su, Mo ...
Close
March 14, 1926: Railroad accident in Costa Rica kills 248 people
March 16, 1926: Robert H. Goddard launches his first rocket 184 feet
March 18, 1926: Chinese police confront unarmed protesters before firing into the crowd and killing 47.

March 1, 1926 (Monday)

Washington Luis

March 2, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • German Chancellor Hans Luther gave a nationally broadcast speech in which he stated that Germany's entry into the League of Nations was understood to be contingent on no other changes being made to the League's membership council. Luther also expressed Germany's opposition to granting a temporary council seat to Poland, considered to be hostile by Germany.[10]
  • U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the largest peacetime appropriation bill in American history, allocating almost one billion dollars ($868,281,501, equivalent in 2025 to $15.76 billion dollars) for the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Department of the Post Office.[11]
  • In Atlanta, the North Carolina Tar Heels won the only postseason college basketball tournament in the U.S., the championship of the Southern Conference, with 16 of the conference's 22 teams competing. In the final, North Carolina defeated Mississippi A & M University Aggies (now the Mississippi State Bulldogs), 37 to 23.[12]
  • An offer by a New York watchmaker to fund, design and install a wristwatch on the Statue of Liberty was formally rejected by the Assistant U.S. Secretary of War, Hanford MacNider.[13] On February 24, watchmaker Oscar M. Lazarus had proposed "an illuminated clock to be attached to the wrist of the Statue of Liberty". MacNider responded that "While the spirit which prompted your offer is appreciated, this department feels constrained to decline it. Aside from any question as to the congruity of so modern an ornament as a wrist watch upon the classically robed figure of Liberty, or the propriety of making alterations in the designer's conception of a work of art presented to this country as a memorial of the traditional friendship between it and France, there is a statute which prohibits any officer of the Government accepting voluntary service for the Government, or employing personal service in excess of that authorized by law. It is believed this statute prevents favorable consideration of your very liberal offer."
  • The Nicaraguan daily newspaper La Prensa was founded in Managua and would still be operational 100 years later.[14]
  • Born:
  • Died: Ying Lianzhi, 58, Chinese Roman Catholic publisher who founded the newspaper Ta Kung Pao in 1902, died of cancer[17]

March 3, 1926 (Wednesday)

March 4, 1926 (Thursday)

de Geer

March 5, 1926 (Friday)

  • Ivar Lykke was appointed as the Prime Minister of Norway by King Haakon VII after the resignation of Johan Ludwig Mowinckel,[36] and would serve until 1928.[37]
  • In Beijing, Jia Deyao (referred to in the press at the time as "Chi Teh-yao") formed a coalition government of three parties as the permanent Premier of the Republic of China after having served a caretaker role as the acting premier since February 15, in the wake of the resignation of Xu Shiying. Jia named himself as Minister of War, and former Premier Yan Huiqing ("W. W. Yen") as Foreign Minister.[38]
  • Pope Pius XI published the encyclical Rerum Ecclesiae, written on February 26, calling for an increase in the number of native Catholic clergymen and missionaries, particularly in Africa, and admonishing white missionaries to avoid prejudice against native missionaries."[39] "It would certainly be wrong to consider these natives an inferior race, dull intellect," the Pope wrote, "Indeed, long experience shows that the peoples of the far eastern and southern regions sometimes rival ours and can easily compete with them in mental acuity." He also his opinion that "If in the heart of barbarous lands one finds men extremely slow to learn, this is due to their condition of life, which, with its very limited demands, does not force them to make great use of their intelligence."[40]
  • The Italian-language version of the Gabriele D'Annunzio opera Il martirio di San Sebastiano, an Italian language version of the 1911 French language Le Martyre de saint Sébastien. Translated from the French by Ettore Janni, the opera premiered at La Scala in Milan, and received "a cold reception".[41]
  • Born: Anthony Rawlinson, British civil servant who was secretary of the UK Department of Trade, and mountaineer who served as president of the Alpine Club in 1986 until his death two months later; (killed in climbing accident, 1986)[42]

March 6, 1926 (Saturday)

March 7, 1926 (Sunday)

March 8, 1926 (Monday)

March 9, 1926 (Tuesday)

Seattle Mayor Landes

March 10, 1926 (Wednesday)

March 11, 1926 (Thursday)

March 12, 1926 (Friday)

March 13, 1926 (Saturday)

March 14, 1926 (Sunday)

"Reddy Kilowatt"
"The Bat"

March 15, 1926 (Monday)

March 16, 1926 (Tuesday)

March 17, 1926 (Wednesday)

March 18, 1926 (Thursday)

  • The March 18 Massacre took place in Beijing. Chinese government troops and police shot and killed 47 unarmed demonstrators,[126] and wounded 200 others, as they were protesting unequal treaties with foreign powers and an ultimatum issued three days earlier.[102][127] The protests occurred after China's government accepted the March 15 ultimatum to end the blockade of the port of Tianjin, and agreed to remove all mines and other impediments to foreign entry.[128]
The Academy of Athens [129]

March 19, 1926 (Friday)

  • The asteroid 2732 Witt, the first of at least 1,600 in the "Witt family" of asteroids that share similarities in orbital characteristics, was discovered in Heidelberg by German astronomer Max Wolf.[138] It is only one of 17 known "A-type asteroids distinct by having a high amount of the mineral olivine.[139]
  • The spree of bank and jewelry robberies committed in the U.S. by the Whittemore Gang came to an end after a little more than year when the remaining seven members, including gang leader Richard Reese Whittemore, were arrested by the New York Police Department at The Chantee, a night club at 132 West Fifty-second Street.[140]
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • "Wild Bill" Hutchison, 66, American baseball pitcher and the last major league player to pitch 500 innings in a single season, accomplished in 1892, appearing in 72 games in a 146-game season.[142][143]
    • Jerome J. Murif, 63, Australian engineer known for being the first person to ride a bicycle across the Australian continent[144]

March 20, 1926 (Saturday)

March 21, 1926 (Sunday)

March 22, 1926 (Monday)

March 23, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • The publication and release of the first of 30 volumes of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia was announced from Moscow by the Soviet government.[162]
  • Sir Harcourt Butler, Governor of British Burma (now in the Republic of Myanmar, announced that slavery had been suppressed in Burma after negotiations in the Hukawng Valley between various chiefs of the Naga people and J. T. O. Barnard, the British Deputy Commissioner of the Burma Frontier Service. Barnard had reported that 3,487 slaves had been released after payments to the Naga tribes.[163]
  • Germany's Reichstag rejected a motion of no confidence in the government of Chancellor Hans Luther, with only 141 in favor and 259 against. The motion had been brought in the wake of the Luther's support of the Locarno treaties and his attempts to have Germany join the League of Nations.[164]
  • Cushman Dam in Mason County, Washington, the first of several, was formally activated to supply power to Tacoma, Washington.[165]
  • A single bullet struck and wounded six people in an unusual accident at a U.S. Army base in San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to reports the next day, a private in the U.S. 65th Infantry was cleaning a rifle when the gun discharged, and "the bullet wounded Private Rodriguez in the abdomen, then struck Private J. Delgadoh on the right knee, was deflected from a rifle leaning against a scorer's box and struck Private M. Emiliano in the neck, then struck in turn Captain John T. Dibrell and Lieutenant John Shaw and finally lodged in the hip of Private A. Roque."[166]

March 24, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • The trial for the 1924 murder of Giacomo Matteotti ended with two Fascists acquitted and the other three sentenced to almost six years in prison for "unintentional murder". Amerigo Dumini, and Ameleto Poveromo each received sentences of five years, 11 months and 20 days imprisonment, while Giuseppe Viola and Augusto Malacria were acquitted of all charges.[167] However, in consideration of an amnesty law passed by the government the previous year for any political murders arising from "unforeseen circumstances", the sentences were reduced by four years to 23 months and 20 days, and credit for time served (21 months), Volpi and Poveromo had to serve only two months more. Dumini, the ringleader, got an 8-month sentence.[115]
  • A national appeal to rebuild the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which had recently been destroyed by fire, was launched in England in an appeal signed by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Opposition Leader Ramsay MacDonald.[168]
  • Born:
  • Died: Phan Châu Trinh, 53, Vietnamese independence activist and pacifist[173]

March 25, 1926 (Thursday)

March 26, 1926 (Friday)

March 27, 1926 (Saturday)

March 28, 1926 (Sunday)

The Austro-Hungarian Empire's ethnic groups in 1914

March 29, 1926 (Monday)

March 30, 1926 (Tuesday)

March 31, 1926 (Wednesday)

References

Related Articles

Wikiwand AI