July 1926

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The following events occurred in July 1926:

Thursday, July 1, 1926

Prime Minister Meighen

Friday, July 2, 1926

President Calles
  • President Plutarco Elías Calles of Mexico published the Calles Law, effective July 31, which banned religious education, foreign priests and political commentary in religious publications. Additionally, all church property was to become government property and worship could only be conducted inside of churches and under the supervision of local officials.
  • Canadian Governor General Julian Byng acted on Prime Minister Meighen's advice to dissolve the 15th Canadian Parliament and call a new federal election.
  • At the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final of tennis, Jean Borotra of France defeated Howard Kinsey of the United States.
  • Died: Émile Coué, 79, French psychologist

Saturday, July 3, 1926

Sunday, July 4, 1926

  • The Nazi Party staged its 2nd Party Congress in Weimar. The Grossdeutsche Jugendbewegung (Greater German Youth Movement) was rebranded Hitler Jugend Bund der deutschen Arbeiterjugend (Hitler Youth League of German Worker Youth), commonly referred to as the Hitler Youth.
  • The Sesquicentennial of the United States was celebrated to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the U.S. On this day, Poland chose to honour this sesquicentennial by collecting signatures for the Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States. This collection of 111 volumes of signatures and greetings was eight months later to President Calvin Coolidge to acknowledge American participation and aid to Poland during World War I. It comprised submissions from nearly one-sixth of the population of Poland as it then existed, including those of approximately 5.5 million school children.
  • Knoebels Amusement Resort opened in Pennsylvania.
  • Born: Alfredo Di Stéfano, footballer, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2014); Amos Elon, journalist and author, in Vienna, Austria (d. 2009); and Mary Stuart, actress and singer, in Miami, Florida (d. 2002)

Monday, July 5, 1926

  • Pope Pius XI designated August 1, the feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula, as a day of special prayers for the "deliverance of Mexican Catholics from persecution and for pardon for their persecutors."

Tuesday, July 6, 1926

Caillaux
  • French Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux spoke before the Chamber of Deputies, outlining the severity of the country's economic problems and asking for emergency powers to address them.

Wednesday, July 7, 1926

Thursday, July 8, 1926

  • In Britain, fist fighting broke out in the House of Lords as it passed the Eight Hours Act, which permitted an extra hour of work per day in coal mines. Before Britain's miners were locked out they usually worked seven hours.
  • A grand jury convened in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping case to question McPherson about some questionable details that had arisen in her account of what had happened to her.
  • Born: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist, in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 2004)

Friday, July 9, 1926

Chiang

Saturday, July 10, 1926

  • In a 4 a.m. vote following an all-night session, France's Chamber of Deputies voted to approve granting Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux the extraordinary powers he sought to address the country's economic crisis. The matter was then to go to the Finance Committee.
  • Bobby Jones won the U.S. Open, becoming the first golfer to win the British and U.S. Open in the same year.
  • A bolt of lightning struck Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The resulting fire caused several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next two to three days.
  • Macedonians from Bulgaria conducted the first of a series of raids across the border of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
  • Born: Fred Gwynne, actor and author, in New York City (d. 1993)

Sunday, July 11, 1926

  • 20,000 French veterans of World War I paraded silently through the rainy streets of Paris to protest the Mellon-Berenger Agreement. Blind and maimed veterans led the procession to the Place des États-Unis where they laid wreaths, as well as plaques explaining their position that the debt settlement would ruin France.
  • The Kuomintang captured Changsha.

Monday, July 12, 1926

  • General Motors acquired the Flint Institute of Technology in Michigan and renamed it the General Motors Institute of Technology. Today it is known as Kettering University.
  • Died: Gertrude Bell, 57, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"; and John W. Weeks, 66, American politician in the Republican Party

Tuesday, July 13, 1926

  • In Florence, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy took a boy who had just been hit by a train into his auto and rushed the boy to the hospital. The boy died in the car.

Wednesday, July 14, 1926

Hursit

Thursday, July 15, 1926

King Albert

Friday, July 16, 1926

Saturday, July 17, 1926

  • The Aristide Briand government fell in France.
  • In Mexico City, a meeting of Catholics resolved to organize a nationwide boycott to protest the Calles Law. The boycott covered items that constituted a large part of government income (such as lottery tickets), items subject to heavy excise duties (such as stamps), and items subject to heavy import duties.
  • Born: William Pierson, actor, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2004)

Sunday, July 18, 1926

Monday, July 19, 1926

  • Rudolph Valentino responded to the previous day's editorial in the Tribune with an essay of his own for the Chicago Herald-Examiner, challenging the writer to come forward and face him in a boxing or wrestling match. The author did not come forward, to Valentino's disappointment.
  • Rumored dissensions among the crew of the airship Norge in the recent North Pole expedition fell into the public sphere as Umberto Nobile shot back at a statement Lincoln Ellsworth had made which denied that Nobile had piloted the airship. Nobile insisted that he steered the entire flight and asserted that Ellsworth was "just a passenger."
  • Born: Helen Gallagher, actress, in New York City

Tuesday, July 20, 1926

  • Édouard Herriot took over as Prime Minister of France as the franc continued to plummet, down to 49.22 against the U.S. dollar.
  • The grand jury in the Aimee Semple McPherson case adjourned, finding insufficient evidence to indict McPherson and her mother on charges of manufacturing evidence and giving false testimony to police.
  • Died: Felix Dzerzhinsky, 48, Bolshevik revolutionary and former head of Cheka and the OGPU

Wednesday, July 21, 1926

Thursday, July 22, 1926

Friday, July 23, 1926

Poincare
  • Raymond Poincaré formed the new government in France. He took the positions of both Prime Minister and Finance Minister.
  • New revelations came out in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping mystery, as claims surfaced that McPherson had been around Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, living in a rented cottage with a man named Kenneth Ormiston during the time she was allegedly kidnapped.

Saturday, July 24, 1926

Sunday, July 25, 1926

  • An episcopal letter to the churchgoers of Mexico was published in newspapers around the country, announcing that after the Calles Law goes into effect on July 31, religious services would no longer be held in the churches as an expression of protest.
  • Born: Whitey Lockman, baseball player, in Gastonia, North Carolina (d. 2009)

Monday, July 26, 1926

  • Raymond Poincaré of France announced his plan to stabilize the franc by rebalancing the budget with new business taxes, as well as tariffs aimed at protecting imports from French colonies. Markets responded favourably as the franc rebounded to 39 against the U.S. dollar.
  • The legislature of the Philippines adopted a plebiscite resolution on independence, but it was vetoed by the governor.
  • Born: James Best, actor, in Powderly, Kentucky (d. 2015); and Lennox Sebe, President of Ciskei bantustan (d. 1994)
  • Died: Robert Todd Lincoln, 82, last surviving son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln

Tuesday, July 27, 1926

Wednesday, July 28, 1926

  • The United States and Panama signed the Panama Canal Treaty, allowing the American military to conduct peacetime maneuvers on Panamanian territory and obligating Panama to go to war if the U.S. ever did. The treaty was very unpopular in Panama.
  • Born: Walt Brown, politician, in Los Angeles

Thursday, July 29, 1926

  • Two thousand pilgrims from Milan attempting to visit the church of the Madonna del Sasso in Locarno were barred entry into Switzerland by Italian authorities. Mussolini had ordered Italians to spend their money within Italy.

Friday, July 30, 1926

  • Nine were wounded in Mexico City when police fired on churchgoers who refused to leave the San Rafael church. It was reported throughout the city that fire fighters used water cannons to disperse angry crowds who were throwing stones at authorities.
  • The Albanian Border Treaty was signed, in which Britain, France, Greece, Italy, and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes settled the frontiers of Albania.
  • Born: Thomas Patrick Russell, judge of the High Court of England and Wales (d. 2002)

Saturday, July 31, 1926


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