The
Parliament of Romania ratified the acceptance of
Crown Prince Carol's renunciation of his right to the throne in the wake of his scandalous affair with
Magda Lupescu, the Roman Catholic daughter of a Jewish pharmacist. His four-year-old son
Michael became the new Crown Prince. Carol later reneged on the renunciation and reigned as
King of Romania from 1930 to 1940.
A band of twenty Mexican rebels opened fire aboard the Guadalajara-Mexico City train, then looted and burned the train. An estimated twenty to fifty people were killed and about 300,000 pesos (about $150,000 US) worth of cash and bar silver were stolen.[9][10]
January 10, 1926 (Sunday)
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.[10][11]
January 11, 1926 (Monday)
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.
Freeman Gosden and
Charles Correll premiered their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portray two black characters from
Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy.
The
Pasteur Institute in Paris announced the discovery of an anti-tetanus serum.[5]
Britain and Iraq signed a new treaty extending their relations for 25 years or until Iraq joined the
League of Nations.[13]
January 14, 1926 (Thursday)
German Foreign Minister
Gustav Stresemann warned that the
Locarno Pact was at risk of breaking down, as Germany accused the
Allied powers of infringing on the limits on troops they were allowed to station in the Rhineland.[14]
A
BBC comic radio play broadcast by
Ronald Knox about a workers' revolution caused a panic in London.[15]
January 17, 1926 (Sunday)
Twenty-year-old
Ayn Rand left Russia, departing from Leningrad by train. Her early life experiences in Communist Russia were a major influence on her philosophy.[16]
The
Italianization of South Tyrol escalated as the government issued a decree requiring citizens of
South Tyrol to Italianize any names and titles of nobility "which have been translated into other languages or deformed by foreign orthography or foreign endings." Failure to comply carried a fine of up to 1,000 lira.[17]
January 19, 1926 (Tuesday)
Lev Karakhan, the Soviet ambassador to China, sent a protest to the Chinese Foreign Ministry warning of "serious consequences" if a dispute over the two countries' joint management of the
Chinese Eastern Railway was not resolved. Manchurian warlord
Zhang Zuolin had been seizing parts of the railway line and arresting Soviet officials in retaliation for a decision that made Chinese troops pay half-fare instead of being allowed to ride for free.[18] The dispute was a precursor to the
Sino Soviet Conflict of 1929.
Died:Camillo Golgi, 82, Austrian physician, pathologist, scientist and Nobel laureate
January 22, 1926 (Friday)
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.[18]
The Third International Radio Week began, featuring transatlantic tests of distance reception. Listeners in New York and Chicago reported successful reception of English and South American radio broadcasts.[22]
January 25, 1926 (Monday)
British surgeon
Sir Berkeley Moynihan said cancer of the tongue was partly caused by smoking.[5]
Scottish inventor
John Logie Baird demonstrated a mechanical television system for members of the
Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times at his London laboratory.
The U.S. Senate voted in favor of joining the
World Court, but with several specific reservations.[13]
30 communists and 12 monarchists were wounded in street fighting 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.[24]
27 miners were killed in a gas explosion in Mossboro, Alabama; 26 escaped unhurt.[26]
The Allied occupation of the first zone of the Rhineland ended. At 15:00 hours 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.[27]
Died:Barbara La Marr, 29, American actress (complications from tuberculosis)
^Allen Jay (January 29, 1926). "Belgium Gives Mercier Hero's Final Homage". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 18.
^"53 Trapped in Alabama Coal Pit; Rescue 26". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 30, 1926. p. 1.
^"Cologne Cheers as British Haul Down Union Jack". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 31, 1926. p. 3.
^Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta (1997). Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 61.
ISBN0-520-22677-1.
The
Parliament of Romania ratified the acceptance of
Crown Prince Carol's renunciation of his right to the throne in the wake of his scandalous affair with
Magda Lupescu, the Roman Catholic daughter of a Jewish pharmacist. His four-year-old son
Michael became the new Crown Prince. Carol later reneged on the renunciation and reigned as
King of Romania from 1930 to 1940.
A band of twenty Mexican rebels opened fire aboard the Guadalajara-Mexico City train, then looted and burned the train. An estimated twenty to fifty people were killed and about 300,000 pesos (about $150,000 US) worth of cash and bar silver were stolen.[9][10]
January 10, 1926 (Sunday)
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.[10][11]
January 11, 1926 (Monday)
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.
Freeman Gosden and
Charles Correll premiered their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portray two black characters from
Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy.
The
Pasteur Institute in Paris announced the discovery of an anti-tetanus serum.[5]
Britain and Iraq signed a new treaty extending their relations for 25 years or until Iraq joined the
League of Nations.[13]
January 14, 1926 (Thursday)
German Foreign Minister
Gustav Stresemann warned that the
Locarno Pact was at risk of breaking down, as Germany accused the
Allied powers of infringing on the limits on troops they were allowed to station in the Rhineland.[14]
A
BBC comic radio play broadcast by
Ronald Knox about a workers' revolution caused a panic in London.[15]
January 17, 1926 (Sunday)
Twenty-year-old
Ayn Rand left Russia, departing from Leningrad by train. Her early life experiences in Communist Russia were a major influence on her philosophy.[16]
The
Italianization of South Tyrol escalated as the government issued a decree requiring citizens of
South Tyrol to Italianize any names and titles of nobility "which have been translated into other languages or deformed by foreign orthography or foreign endings." Failure to comply carried a fine of up to 1,000 lira.[17]
January 19, 1926 (Tuesday)
Lev Karakhan, the Soviet ambassador to China, sent a protest to the Chinese Foreign Ministry warning of "serious consequences" if a dispute over the two countries' joint management of the
Chinese Eastern Railway was not resolved. Manchurian warlord
Zhang Zuolin had been seizing parts of the railway line and arresting Soviet officials in retaliation for a decision that made Chinese troops pay half-fare instead of being allowed to ride for free.[18] The dispute was a precursor to the
Sino Soviet Conflict of 1929.
Died:Camillo Golgi, 82, Austrian physician, pathologist, scientist and Nobel laureate
January 22, 1926 (Friday)
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.[18]
The Third International Radio Week began, featuring transatlantic tests of distance reception. Listeners in New York and Chicago reported successful reception of English and South American radio broadcasts.[22]
January 25, 1926 (Monday)
British surgeon
Sir Berkeley Moynihan said cancer of the tongue was partly caused by smoking.[5]
Scottish inventor
John Logie Baird demonstrated a mechanical television system for members of the
Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times at his London laboratory.
The U.S. Senate voted in favor of joining the
World Court, but with several specific reservations.[13]
30 communists and 12 monarchists were wounded in street fighting 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.[24]
27 miners were killed in a gas explosion in Mossboro, Alabama; 26 escaped unhurt.[26]
The Allied occupation of the first zone of the Rhineland ended. At 15:00 hours 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.[27]
Died:Barbara La Marr, 29, American actress (complications from tuberculosis)
^Allen Jay (January 29, 1926). "Belgium Gives Mercier Hero's Final Homage". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 18.
^"53 Trapped in Alabama Coal Pit; Rescue 26". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 30, 1926. p. 1.
^"Cologne Cheers as British Haul Down Union Jack". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 31, 1926. p. 3.
^Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta (1997). Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 61.
ISBN0-520-22677-1.