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May 1926

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

4. The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.

General Strike March

8. Birth. Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist, and producer

9. Explorer Richard E Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in such a short time. Byrd’s diary, discovered in 1996, suggests the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.

9. Death. JM Dent, British publisher (b.1849)

12. Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over the North Pole, in the airship Norge.

12. The United Kingdom general strike is called off by the trade unions, although miners remain on strike.

14. Birth. Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d.1984)

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April 1926

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

1. Birth. Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d.2011)

2. Birth. Jack Brabham, Australian racing driver (d.2014)

3. Birth. Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d.1967)

6. Birth. Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d.2014)

7. An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.

9. Birth. Hugh Hefner, American founder of Playboy magazine (d.2017)

Hugh Hefner and blonde

21. Birth. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (d.2022)

30. A state of emergency is proclaimed in the United Kingdom under the Emergency Powers Act 1920 on account of the “threat of cessation of work in Coal Mines”.

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March 1926

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6. Birth. Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman

16. Robert H Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts .

23. Éamon de Valera organises the political party Fianna Fáil in Ireland.

31. Birth. John Fowles, English writer (d.2005)

John Fowles

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February 1926

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

1. Death. Theodosius of Skopje, Bulgaria Orthodox religious leader and saint (b.1846)

2. Birth. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of France (d.2020)

9. Birth. Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d.2011)

10. Birth. Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer, football manager (d.1993)

11. Birth. Paul Bocuse, French chef (d.2018)

14. Death. John Jacob Bausch, German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b.1830)

16. Birth. John Schlesinger, British film director (d.2003)

22. Birth. Kenneth Williams, English actor (d.1988)

Kenneth Williams

25. Francisco Franco becomes General in Spain.

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January 1926

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13. Birth. Michael Bond, English fiction writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d.2017)

16. A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers’ revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.

Early BBC logo

26. Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.

29. Birth. Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (d.1996)

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December 1925

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

5. Peter Paul Rubens’ portrait of Saint Teresa of Ávila was found in Berlin after being hidden for 200 years.

8. Born. Sammy Davis Jr, American singer, dancer, musician and actor (d.1990)

10. The 1925 Nobel Prize recipients included George Bernard Shaw (Literature).

11. Pope Pius XI promulgated Quas primas, an encyclical introducing the Feast of Christ the King.

13. Born. Dick Van Dyke, entertainer, in West Plains, Missouri

28. Born. Milton Obote, 2nd President of Uganda, in Apac (d.2005)

30. The historical epic film Ben-Hur was released in the United States.Ben-Hur chariot race

31. The first attempt at a worldwide New Year’s celebration was made via international radio. The United States sent out musical entertainment and New Year’s greetings from the consuls general of various foreign countries in New York. Evening listeners for participating stations across the United States heard a radio announcer in London say, “This is 2LO calling America and sending New Year’s greetings. We have received word that the American stations are broadcasting this program and we hope that it is being relayed successfully.”

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What Happened in 1825

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So here’s our last instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.

Some Notable Events in 1825

9 February. After no presidential candidate receives a majority of United States Electoral College votes following the 1824 election, the House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President.

24 February. Died. Thomas Bowdler, English physician responsible for the Family Shakespeare and other emasculated works (b.1754).

4 March. John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixth President of the United States.

May. The Australian city of Brisbane is founded.

4 May. Born. Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (d.1895).

7 May. Died. Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b.1750).

26 May. Two Unitarian Christian bodies, the American Unitarian Association, and the British and Foreign Unitarian Association are founded, coincidentally, on the same date.

6 July. A new Combinations of Workmen Act in the UK makes trades unions legal according to narrowly defined principles.

6 August. Bolivia gains its independence from Spain as a replublic at the instigation of Simón Bolivar.

18 August. Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest, through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company, for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais. His actions lead to the Panic of 1825, the first modern stock market crash, in England.

27 September. The world’s first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.Stockton and Darlington Railway

25 October. Born. Johann Strauss, Junior, Austrian composer (d.1899).

26 October. The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.

Unknown Date. Hans Christian Ørsted reduces aluminium chloride to produce metallic aluminium.

Unknown Date. The first horse-drawn omnibuses established in London.

Unknown Date. London becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Beijing.

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November 1925

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

3. Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial debut film, The Pleasure Garden, was released.

10. Born. Richard Burton, actor, in Pontrhydyfen, Wales (d.1984)

11. Howard Carter and an autopsy team began the unwrapping of the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The process was exceedingly difficult due to the extreme fragility of the bandages and the resinous coating that held the mummy fast inside the sarcophagus.Tutankhamun unwrapped

11. Born. June Whitfield, British actress, in Streatham, London (d.2018)

12. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five recorded their first songs together for Okeh Records. These recordings were among the most important and influential in the development of jazz music.

19. The autopsy of Tutankhamun concluded. The bad condition of the body and limited forensic science of the 1920s meant that little could be determined other than the age of the body being estimated to be about eighteen.

24. Born. William F Buckley Jr, American journalist, author and commentator (d.2008)

27. Born. Ernie Wise, comedian, in Bramley, Leeds, England (d.1999)

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What Happened in 1725

Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.

Some Notable Events in 1725

20 January.20. James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian gondolier Alberto di Carni in London .

20 February. The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.

25 March. Bach’s chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday.

30 March. The second performance of Bach’s St John Passion takes place at St Thomas Church, Leipzig.

12 May. The Black Watch is raised as a military company, as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.

24 June. The Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry.

24 September. Born. Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d.1803).

29 September. Born. Robert Clive, British general, statesman (d.1774) .

24 October. Died. Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b.1660).

26 November. British astronomers James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux set up a telescope in Molyneux’s private observatory to begin their observations of stellar parallax of the star Gamma Draconis. The observations lead to Bradley’s pioneering discovery of the aberration of light.James Bradley portrait

Unknown Date. Gradus ad Parnassum, a seminal work on counterpoint, laying out rules of constructing music, is published by Johann Joseph Fux.

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October 1925

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2. In London, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.Early TV picture

3. Born. Gore Vidal, writer and public intellectual, in West Point, New York (d.2012)

5. The Locarno Conference began in Locarno, Switzerland between several European powers to negotiate a security pact.

13. Born. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England (d.2013)

13. The Locarno conference ended with several agreements in place. German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann gave a closing speech in which he said the conference spelled a new era in European relationships, while French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand said it marked the beginning of a new epoch of cooperation and friendship.

16. Born. Angela Lansbury, actress and singer, in Regent’s Park, London (d.2022)

23. Born. Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d.2005)

24. Born. Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d.2003)

29. Born. Robert Hardy, actor, in Cheltenham, England (d.2017)