July 1926

July 1, 1926 (Thursday)

July 2, 1926 (Friday)

July 3, 1926 (Saturday)

July 4, 1926 (Sunday)

July 5, 1926 (Monday)

  • 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."[3]

July 6, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • 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.[4]

July 7, 1926 (Wednesday)

July 8, 1926 (Thursday)

  • 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.[6]
  • 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.[7]
  • Born: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist, in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 2004)

July 9, 1926 (Friday)

July 10, 1926 (Saturday)

  • 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.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • Born: Fred Gwynne, actor and author, in New York City (d. 1993)

July 11, 1926 (Sunday)

  • 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.[11]
  • The Kuomintang captured Changsha.[12]

July 12, 1926 (Monday)

  • 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

July 13, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • 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 hospital. The boy died in the car.[13]

July 14, 1926 (Wednesday)

July 15, 1926 (Thursday)

July 16, 1926 (Friday)

July 17, 1926 (Saturday)

  • The Aristide Briand government fell in France.[18]
  • 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.[19]
  • Born: William Pierson, actor, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2004)

July 18, 1926 (Sunday)

July 19, 1926 (Monday)

  • 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.[21]
  • 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."[22]
  • Born: Helen Gallagher, actress, in New York City

July 20, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • Édouard Herriot took over as Prime Minister of France as the franc continued to plummet, down to 49.22 against the U.S. dollar.[23]
  • 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.[7]

July 21, 1926 (Wednesday)

July 22, 1926 (Thursday)

July 23, 1926 (Friday)

  • 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.[7]

July 24, 1926 (Saturday)

July 25, 1926 (Sunday)

  • 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.[26]
  • Born: Whitey Lockman, baseball player, in Gastonia, North Carolina (d. 2009)

July 26, 1926 (Monday)

July 27, 1926 (Tuesday)

July 28, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • 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.[10]
  • Born: Walt Brown, politician, in Los Angeles

July 29, 1926 (Thursday)

  • 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.[28]

July 30, 1926 (Friday)

  • 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.[29]
  • 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.[10]
  • Born: Thomas Patrick Russell, judge of the High Court of England and Wales

July 31, 1926 (Saturday)

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  4. Wales, Henry (July 7, 1926). "Caillaux Demands Power of Dictator of French Finance". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 3.
  5. Wales, Henry (July 8, 1926). "Blasts Hope for France's O.K. on U.S. Debt Accord". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 6.
  6. Hammond, Lorimer (July 9, 1926). "Fists Fly over House of Lords Mines Debate". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 3.
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  13. "Boy Run Over by Train Dies in King of Italy's Auto". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 14, 1926. p. 1.
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  16. "Both Houses O.K. Belgian King as Money Dictator". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 16, 1926. p. 15.
  17. "Caillaux Loses First Move for Dictatorship of France". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 17, 1926. p. 2.
  18. "French Vote Down Dictator". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 18, 1926. p. 1.
  19. Cornyn, John (July 18, 1926). "Catholics Open Boycott War to Humble Mexico". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 6.
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  22. "Norge Flight Dispute Gets Down to Case of 'You Did', 'You Didn't'". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 20, 1926. p. 2.
  23. Wales, Henry (July 21, 1926). "France Faces Panic; Herriot Faces Fall". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  24. Wales, Henry (July 22, 1926). "Paris Riots; Call Poincaré". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  25. "Babe Ruth Catches Ball From Airplane; Seventh Attempt Gives Him World's Record". The New York Times. July 23, 1926.
  26. Cornyn, John (July 26, 1926). "Mexico Priests to Quit, Leave Churches Open". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  27. Wales, Henry (July 27, 1926). "Poincaré Plans 10 Tonic Doses and France Brightens Up". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 3.
  28. "Italy Halts Pilgrims' Journey to Swiss Shrine". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 30, 1926. p. 15.
  29. "Fire on Mexican Catholics". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 31, 1926. p. 1.
  30. "Troops Kill 3 in Church War in Mexico". Chicago Daily Tribune. August 1, 1926. p. 1.
  31. Wales, Henry (August 1, 1926). "France Strips to Save Self". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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