Notable Historical Events - 1926
1926 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne |
Jan 3 |
Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator |
Jan 4 |
Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator |
Jan 6 |
Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland |
Jan 8 |
Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia |
Jan 20 |
2nd German government of Luther begins |
Jan 21 |
Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties |
Jan 22 |
Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits |
Jan 23 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in NYC |
Jan 26 |
1st public demonstration of television by John Logie Baird in his laboratory in London |
Jan 27 |
US Senate agrees to join World Court |
Jan 27 |
Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what becomes known as the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics |
Feb 1 |
Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR |
Feb 1 |
Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch |
Feb 2 |
3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours |
Feb 4 |
Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany |
Feb 6 |
NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates |
Feb 6 |
St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees |
Feb 8 |
German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership |
Feb 8 |
Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin |
Feb 8 |
Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios |
Feb 9 |
Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools |
Feb 10 |
Building of Olympic Stadium Amsterdam, begins |
Feb 11 |
Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ |
Feb 12 |
Barendrecht soccer team forms |
Feb 15 |
Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC |
Feb 15 |
Contract air mail service begins in US |
Feb 16 |
Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France |
Feb 17 |
Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die |
Feb 25 |
Francisco Franco becomes the youngest General in Spain |
Feb 25 |
Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords |
Feb 26 |
Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street |
Mar 3 |
International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla) |
Mar 4 |
De Geer government in Netherlands takes office |
Mar 6 |
China asks for a seat in the Security council |
Mar 7 |
1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY) |
Mar 9 |
Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle |
Mar 10 |
Run on Belgian banks |
Mar 11 |
Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein |
Mar 12 |
Denmark begins unilateral disarmament |
Mar 12 |
Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium |
Mar 14 |
A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93. |
Mar 15 |
Belgium's "black monday", franc falls |
Mar 16 |
Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters) |
Mar 17 |
Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3 |
Mar 17 |
Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in NYC |
Mar 17 |
Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations |
Mar 23 |
NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games |
Mar 24 |
The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands |
Mar 26 |
ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies |
Mar 26 |
The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America |
Mar 31 |
German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands |
Apr 1 |
Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren |
Apr 2 |
Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta |
Apr 3 |
1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C |
Apr 3 |
2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard |
Apr 3 |
Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions |
Apr 4 |
Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president |
Apr 6 |
Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1 |
Apr 7 |
Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California) |
Apr 7 |
Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose |
Apr 11 |
Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent |
Apr 12 |
Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms |
Apr 13 |
At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout |
Apr 13 |
Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam |
Apr 16 |
Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Apr 18 |
Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany |
Apr 19 |
30th Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:25:40.4 |
Apr 20 |
1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic |
Apr 22 |
Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security |
Apr 25 |
Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" premieres in Milan |
Apr 25 |
Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi |
Apr 26 |
Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty |
Apr 26 |
Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943) |
Apr 27 |
In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance |
Apr 29 |
France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I |
May 1 |
British coal miners go on strike |
May 1 |
Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League |
May 2 |
US military intervenes in Nicaragua |
May 3 |
British general strike: 3 million workers support miners |
May 3 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) |
May 3 |
US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 |
May 5 |
Geldrop soccer team forms |
May 5 |
Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" |
May 8 |
1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd) |
May 8 |
A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
May 8 |
Fire breaks out in Fenway Park, home of Boston Red Socks baseball team |
May 9 |
Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole |
May 10 |
52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8 |
May 11 |
Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean |
May 12 |
Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole |
May 12 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad |
May 12 |
General Józef Piłsudski returns to power in Poland after coup d'état against the Witos regime |
May 12 |
Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole |
May 12 |
British general strike ends, but mine workers stay on strike |
May 13 |
German government of Luther falls |
May 15 |
52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8 |
May 17 |
Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme warlord in Canton |
May 17 |
German government of Marx takes power |
May 18 |
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped |
May 19 |
French air force bombs Damascus Syria |
May 20 |
Belgian government of Jaspar takes power |
May 20 |
Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes |
May 20 |
Railway Labor Act became law in USA |
May 20 |
Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies |
May 21 |
White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double |
May 22 |
"Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1 |
May 22 |
Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China |
May 22 |
Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop |
May 23 |
Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard |
May 23 |
Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate |
May 24 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) |
May 25 |
Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic. |
May 26 |
Lebanon adopts constitution |
May 28 |
Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal |
May 28 |
US Customs Court created by congress |
May 31 |
Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup |
May 31 |
Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia |
May 31 |
Indianapolis 500: Frank Lockhart wins in 5:12:48.768 (154.343 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland |
Jun 5 |
Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3 |
Jun 6 |
Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms |
Jun 7 |
Swedish government of Ekman forms |
Jun 10 |
Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle |
Jun 12 |
58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2 |
Jun 12 |
Brazil leaves League of Nations |
Jun 14 |
2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (6-1 6-0) |
Jun 15 |
7th French government of Briand falls |
Jun 18 |
Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover |
Jun 19 |
DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry |
Jun 20 |
Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University |
Jun 22 |
Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs |
Jun 23 |
8th government of Briand van France forms |
Jun 23 |
Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's |
Jun 23 |
The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA |
Jun 25 |
61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham |
Jun 29 |
Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history |
Jun 29 |
Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada. |
Jul 1 |
Canada restores gold standard |
Jul 2 |
US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized |
Jul 3 |
39th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Kitty Godfree beats L de Alvarez (6-2 4-6 6-3) |
Jul 3 |
46th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jean Borotra beats H Kinsey (8-6 6-1 6-3) |
Jul 4 |
Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth |
Jul 4 |
NSDAP-party forms in Weimar |
Jul 9 |
Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander |
Jul 9 |
Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal |
Jul 10 |
30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio |
Jul 10 |
Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage |
Jul 12 |
Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu |
Jul 12 |
Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2) |
Jul 13 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4) |
Jul 15 |
VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms |
Jul 16 |
Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc |
Jul 16 |
National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos |
Jul 17 |
Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4) |
Jul 18 |
The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel |
Jul 19 |
2nd French government of Herriot, forms |
Jul 20 |
A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests. |
Jul 22 |
105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record) |
Jul 22 |
108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record) |
Jul 22 |
Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning |
Jul 23 |
Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms |
Jul 23 |
French government of Poincaré forms |
Jul 26 |
National Bar Association incorporates |
Jul 26 |
Philippines government asks USA for a plebiscite on independence |
Jul 28 |
US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal |
Jul 30 |
Albanian boundaries deduced |
Aug 1 |
Battles between Druze & French in Damascus |
Aug 1 |
Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona |
Aug 3 |
Traffic lights installed at Piccadilly Circus, London |
Aug 5 |
1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, NY |
Aug 5 |
French & German trade agreement signed |
Aug 5 |
Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hrs before escaping |
Aug 6 |
NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel |
Aug 6 |
Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY) |
Aug 6 |
Don Juan with John Barrymore shown |
Aug 10 |
Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed |
Aug 11 |
Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double |
Aug 17 |
Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed |
Aug 18 |
England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0 |
Aug 18 |
Weather map televised for 1st time |
Aug 20 |
Uprising against Rezā Shāh Pahlavi in Iran |
Aug 20 |
Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established. |
Aug 21 |
-22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos |
Aug 21 |
White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway |
Aug 22 |
Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa |
Aug 22 |
Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out |
Aug 23 |
40th US Women's Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (4-6 6-4 9-7) |
Aug 25 |
Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece |
Aug 28 |
Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox) |
Aug 30 |
Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex) |
Sep 1 |
British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms |
Sep 1 |
Turkey allows civil marriage |
Sep 2 |
Italy signs treaty with Yemen |
Sep 8 |
League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany |
Sep 9 |
National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America |
Sep 9 |
Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die |
Sep 9 |
The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed. |
Sep 10 |
Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn |
Sep 10 |
Germany joins League of Nations |
Sep 11 |
21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1), for their 7th straight championship |
Sep 11 |
Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu |
Sep 11 |
Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining |
Sep 11 |
Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies |
Sep 14 |
Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens |
Sep 15 |
Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini |
Sep 16 |
-22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372 |
Sep 16 |
Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed |
Sep 16 |
Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC |
Sep 16 |
St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3 |
Sep 17 |
Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die |
Sep 18 |
46th US Men's Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (6-4 6-0 6-4) |
Sep 18 |
Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 |
Sep 18 |
Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open |
Sep 19 |
80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague |
Sep 19 |
The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter. |
Sep 20 |
Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails |
Sep 22 |
Belgian crown prince Leopold & Swedish princess Astrid get engaged |
Sep 23 |
Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 24 |
Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4 |
Sep 25 |
9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club in Westbury, New York |
Sep 25 |
Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week |
Sep 25 |
International slavery convention signed by 20 states |
Sep 25 |
NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings |
Sep 25 |
Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant |
Sep 25 |
Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada |
Sep 26 |
JB Fagan's "And So to Bed" premieres in London |
Sep 26 |
Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant |
Sep 28 |
Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed |
Sep 30 |
German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes |
Oct 1 |
An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft. |
Oct 2 |
Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
Oct 3 |
1st congress of Pan European Movement (Pan-Europese Beweging) opens in Vienna |
Oct 3 |
Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22) |
Oct 4 |
Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower |
Oct 6 |
Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5 |
Oct 7 |
Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage |
Oct 7 |
Italian Great Fascist Council forms |
Oct 9 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution |
Oct 9 |
NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms |
Oct 10 |
St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series |
Oct 14 |
AA Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released |
Oct 14 |
Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark |
Oct 15 |
Austria government of Seipel, forms |
Oct 15 |
Philip Barry's "White Wings!" premieres in NYC |
Oct 16 |
Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed |
Oct 16 |
Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200 |
Oct 18 |
Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament |
Oct 19 |
John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle |
Oct 19 |
Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers |
Oct 20 |
Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600 |
Oct 22 |
J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal. |
Oct 24 |
Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. |
Oct 25 |
Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers |
Oct 26 |
Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi" premieres in NYC |
Oct 26 |
Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga") |
Nov 1 |
US Air Commerce Act passes |
Nov 3 |
15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins |
Nov 3 |
Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager |
Nov 8 |
George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay" premieres in NYC |
Nov 10 |
Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37 |
Nov 10 |
Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou) |
Nov 10 |
Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA |
Nov 11 |
Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager |
Nov 11 |
U.S. Route 66 is established. |
Nov 12 |
The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers |
Nov 13 |
Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java |
Nov 15 |
1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC) |
Nov 15 |
AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC) |
Nov 16 |
NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 |
Nov 17 |
NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1 |
Nov 18 |
Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico |
Nov 19 |
British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends |
Nov 22 |
Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth |
Nov 23 |
Noel Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC |
Nov 24 |
KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions |
Nov 27 |
110,000 watch US Army & Navy play a 21-all tie |
Nov 27 |
Béla Bartok's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres in Keulen |
Nov 27 |
Italian & Albania sign peace treaty |
Nov 27 |
KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions |
Nov 27 |
Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins |
Nov 29 |
Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager |
Nov 29 |
W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife" premieres in NYC |
Dec 3 |
Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) |
Dec 3 |
Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days |
Dec 4 |
14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats U of Toronto, 10-7 |
Dec 5 |
Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" debuts |
Dec 7 |
Gas refrigerator patented |
Dec 9 |
USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs |
Dec 10 |
1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS) |
Dec 10 |
2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published |
Dec 11 |
Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam |
Dec 11 |
Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW |
Dec 12 |
Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert |
Dec 14 |
Danish Madsen government forms |
Dec 15 |
Facist national symbol elevated in Italy |
Dec 16 |
Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot" premieres in Paris |
Dec 16 |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner |
Dec 16 |
WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions |
Dec 17 |
German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army |
Dec 17 |
KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions |
Dec 17 |
Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras |
Dec 17 |
Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful. |
Dec 20 |
Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring |
Dec 20 |
Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy |
Dec 20 |
Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord" premieres in NYC |
Dec 21 |
Soccer team DOS Struggle forms |
Dec 23 |
KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions |
Dec 25 |
Prince-regent Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan (1926-1989) upon the death of his father Yoshihito |
Dec 27 |
Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square |
Dec 27 |
Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I |
Dec 28 |
Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic |
Dec 28 |
Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service |
Dec 28 |
Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW |
Dec 28 |
Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348 |
Dec 29 |
Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index |
Dec 29 |
Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs |
Dec 30 |
Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in NYC |
Dec 30 |
Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated) |
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