The first volume of the 24-volume Great Greek Encyclopedia (Megáli Ellinikí Enkyklopaídeia) was published, with two volumes released every year until its completion in 1934 under the oversight of editor-in-chief Iraklis Apostolidis.[3]
After a six day trial in BrocktonAnthony Bimba, the last person in the U.S. to be charged with the crime of blasphemy, was acquitted of charges, though he was convicted on a charge of sedition.[4] Prosecution had been based on a 1697 law still in force in the U.S. state of Massachusetts after a speech he had made on January 26. Bimba was fined $100 for his sedition conviction, a punishment that was dropped after an appeal.[5]
Born:
Pete Rozelle, American sports administrator and NFL commissioner from 1960 to 1989; in South Gate, California (d. 1996)Davis, Jeff (2008). Rozelle: Czar of the NFL. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN9780071471664.
German Chancellor Hans Luther gave a nationally broadcast speech in which he stated that Germany's entry into the League of Nations was understood to be contingent on no other changes being made to the League's membership council. Luther also expressed Germany's opposition to granting a temporary council seat being granted to Poland, considered to be hostile by Germany.[9]
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the largest peacetime appropriation bill in American history, allocating almost one billion dollars ($868,281,501, equivalent in 2025 to $15.76 billion dollars) for the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Department of the Post Office.[10]
An offer by a New York watchmaker to fund, design and install a wristwatch on the Statue of Liberty was formally rejected by the Assistant U.S. Secretary of War, Hanford MacNider.[12] On February 24, watchmaker Oscar M. Lazarus had proposed "an illuminated clock to be attached to the wrist of the Statue of Liberty". MacNider responded that "While the spirit which prompted your offer is appreciated, this department feels constrained to decline it. Aside from any question as to the congruity of so modern an ornament as a wrist watch upon the classically robed figure of Liberty, or the propriety of making alterations in the designer's conception of a work of art presented to this country as a memorial of the traditional friendship between it and France, there is a statute which prohibits any officer of the Government accepting voluntary service for the Government, or employing personal service in excess of that authorized by law. It is believed this statute prevents favorable consideration of your very liberal offer."
The Nicaraguan daily newspaper La Prensa was founded in Managua and would still be operational nearly 100 years later.[13]
The Moody Bible Institute (MBI) made the first radio broadcast in the U.S. of an evangelical program, as the Institute's president, James Gray, spoke in a two-hour program broadcast over WENR in Chicago, pending the allocation of a frequency to allow the Institute to broadcast from its own station, WMBI. Gray, who had initially opposed radio broadcasts as sinister (based on a Bible verse at Ephesians 2:2 that described Satan as "the prince of power of the air"), had experienced a change of heart and was surprised to find that his broadcast had been heard as far away Florida.[17]
Germany and Afghanistan concluded a treaty of friendship, but stopped short of a military alliance, allowing Afghanistan to remain neutral in war.[18][19]
United States Daily, an attempt by conservative journalist David Lawrence to launch a national newspaper, published its first issue.[22] It would continue until ceasing publication on May 13, 1933 [23] after which Lawrence launching a weekly magazine, The United States News, later combined with another Lawrence magazine, World Report, to create U.S. News & World Report in 1948.
Zizi Lambrino filed a lawsuit in Paris against Prince Carol of Romania for 10 million francs, asserting that she was still legally Carol's wife and entitled to money to support herself and their son Carol Lambrino.[24]
A strange story, sometimes thought to be an urban legend, was reported in the Hungarian newspaper Az Est, concerning a waiter in Budapest who committed suicide and left behind a note containing a complex crossword puzzle as some kind of clue. It does not appear that the mystery was ever solved.[25]
Born:
Richard DeVos, U.S. businessman and billionaire, co-founder of the Amway Corporation and later owner of the NBA Orlando Magic team; in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 2018)[26]
Marie Burroughs (stage name for Lillie Arrington), 59, American stage actress on Broadway, died a week after being stricken with apoplexy (a cerebral hemorrhage).[32]
March 5, 1926 (Friday)
The first issue of science fiction magazine Amazing Stories arrived on newsstands, with a cover date of April 1926.[33]
Born:Anthony Rawlinson, British civil servant who was secretary of the UK Department of Trade, and mountaineer who served as president of the Alpine Club in 1986 until his death two months later; (killed in climbing accident, 1986)[36]
March 6, 1926 (Saturday)
In the early hours of the morning in Paris, the government of France's Prime Minister Aristide Briand fell after failing to pass a financial bill, by a vote of 221 for and 274 against.[37]
On the 50th anniversary of the patenting of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, the first wireless trans-Atlantic telephone call was made from New York to London, in a four hour demonstration between the AT&T headquarters in New York City to the British Post Office in London, starting at 8:00 in the morning (1:00 in the afternoon in London) with dozens of journalists from both sides. The quality of the audio was superior to telephone conversations that had been carried out by trans-Atlantic cable.[40][41]
A meeting in Geneva among the signatories of the Locarno Treaties agreed that Germany's entry into the League of Nations would be delayed pending the formation of a new French government and a decision regarding permanent council seats for Poland, Spain and Brazil.[42]
Died:J. Herbert Frank, 40, American stage and silent film actor and suspect in the 1923 death of Wallace Reid, committed suicide with chloroform and gas the day before he was to tried of charges connected to narcotics charges [47]
Five Fascists went on trial for the 1924 murder of Socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti.[51] The trial took place in the largely inaccessible coastal town of Chieti and the judge was the brother-in-law of the prominent Fascist politician Roberto Farinacci.[52]
Japan demanded a formal apology and an indemnity payment from China over the March 12 incident. The signatories to the Boxer Protocol also gave China an ultimatum to dismantle the Taku Forts and allow unimpeded access to the sea.[53][54]
Germany's admission into the League of Nations was delayed again over complications raised by Brazil and Spain regarding the allocation of permanent council seats.[56]
The March 18 Massacre took place in Beijing. Government troops and police shot 47 unarmed demonstrators who were protesting unequal treaties with foreign powers and their March 15 ultimatum.[54]
Died:"Wild Bill" Hutchison, 66, American baseball pitcher and the last major league player to pitch 500 innings in a single season, accomplished in 1892, appearing in 72 games in a 146-game season.[57]
Died: Major General Oswald H. Ernst, 83, American military officer who was superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1893 to 1898, later the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, 1914 to 1917
The Matteotti murder trial ended with two Fascists acquitted and the other three sentenced to six years in prison for "unintentional murder".[51] However, in consideration of time served and an amnesty law passed by the government the previous year for any political murders arising from "unforeseen circumstances", all were set to be freed in seven weeks except for ringleader Amerigo Dumini, who received an additional six months.[52]
Gene Shalit, American film critic and long time reviewer for The Today Show; in New York City (alive in 2024)
László Papp, Hungarian middleweight and light middlweight boxer, gold medalist in three consecutive Olympics (1948, 1952 and 1956); in Budapest (d. 2003)
March 26, 1926 (Friday)
The French franc tumbled to 29.15 to the American dollar, the lowest in the currency's history, as a devaluation crisis began to develop in France.[58]
The Polish and Romanian governments signed a Treaty of Alliance to bolster security in Eastern Europe.[56]
Died:Georges Vézina, 39, Canadian NHL goaltender, died of tuberculosis contracted during the 1924-25 NHL season. The NHL's Vezina Trophy for the league's best goaltender is named in his honor; he would be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945.
March 28, 1926 (Sunday)
Police fought rioters in Paris resulting from the election of two communists to the Chamber of Deputies.[59]
The U.S. government granted permission for two breweries to make 3.76% "malt tonic" to be sold through drug stores without prescription for a six-month trial period.[60]
Roberto Farinacci resigned as National Secretary of the Fascist Party of Italy.[61] He practiced private law until returning to public prominence by joining the Grand Council in 1935.
France shipped out 340 convicts, with another 340 to be picked up in Algiers, on a boat bound for Devil's Island. The government had previously committed to winding down and closing the nefarious colonial prison, but it abandoned the pledge due to jail overcrowding.[62]
Born:
Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman who founded the multinational furniture company IKEA in 1943; in Älmhult (d. 2018)
↑ "North Carolina Again Wins S. C. Basket Title— Aggies Fight Hard But Succumb Before Superior Offense", by H. C. Hamilton, The Atlanta Constitution, March 3, 1926, p.9
↑ Chamorro Cardenal, Jaime (1988). La Prensa, A Republic of Paper. Freedom House. p.1.
↑ Egret, Daniel & Heck, Andre. "Carlos Jaschek (1926–1999)", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (1999) p.1602. 1999. Retrieved on July 3, 2017.
↑ Stout, David (January 11, 1995). "Obituary: Murray N. Rothbard, Economist And Free-Market Exponent, 68". The New York Times.
↑ Boorman, Howard L., ed. (1976). "Ying Hua". Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. Vol.4. New York: Columbia University Press. p.58. ISBN978-0231089586.
↑ James Vincent, The MBI Story: The Vision and Worldwide Impact of the Moody Bible Institute (Moody Publishers, 2011) ISBN9780802477910
↑ "Civil-military interaction in Afghanistan: The case of Germany", by William Maley, in Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective (Taylor & Francis, 2014) ISBN9781317608929
↑ Text in League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 62, pp. 116–125.
↑ Obituaries in the Performing Arts 1996), by Harris M. Lentz III (McFarland & Company, 1996), p. 163
↑ Vijayakar, Rajiv (March 16, 2012). "Remembering Ravi – Indian Express". Indian Express.
↑ "American Business and the Government", advertisement in Printers' Ink, May 13, 1926, p.77
↑ Dorothy C. Tompkins, Materials for the Study of Federal Government (Public Administartion Service, 1948) p.8
↑ Wales, Henry (March 5, 1926). "Zizi Sues Carol as He and Cutie Speed in Paris". Chicago Daily Tribune. p.5.
↑ "Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford Burned; Museum and Picture Gallery Are Saved". The New York Times. March 7, 1926. p.2.
↑ "Greenspan, Alan", by Joseph Lee Hauser, in Economic Thinkers: A Biographical Encyclopedia, ed. by David A. Dieterle (ABC-CLIO, 2013) p.113 ISBN9780313397479
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1 2 Sachar, Howard M. (2015). The Assassination of Europe, 1918–1942: A Political History. North York, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. pp.61–63. ISBN978-1-4426-0920-4.
↑ Dailey, Charles (March 16, 1926). "'Wreck Forts or We Will,' China Told By Powers". Chicago Daily Tribune. p.3.
1 2 Powers, Roger S.; Vogele, William B.; Kruegler, Christopher; McCarthy, Ronald M. (1997). Protest, Power and Change. Garland Publishing. p.76.
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