Mussolini made himself head of the state's national militia, the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, the Blackshirts.
Emblem of the Blackshirts.
It was a Saturday.
It was football season as well.
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Showing posts with label 1926. Show all posts
Friday, October 9, 2026
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Thursday, October 7, 1926. Choral Evensong.
The fusionist religion Caodaism was established in Saigon by Ngo Van Chieu with the signing of the "Declaration of the Founding of the Cao Đài Religion".
The still running Choral Evensong was broadcast for the first time, on the BBC, featuring a 15-minute airing of the Evensong, the Anglican church afternoon prayer, at 3:00 pm.
The Yankees beat the Cardinals 3 to 2 in Game 5 of the World Series, giving them a three to two edge.
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Wednesday, October 6, 1926. World Series Record.
Labels: 1790s, 1794, 1920s, 1926, 1926 World Series, 1970s, 1977, 2010s, 2011, American Puritanism, baseball, Blue Laws, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Pittsburg), Protestant, Puritans, religion, Sports
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Wednesday, October 6, 1926. World Series Record.
Pennsylvania''s blue laws from 1794 were invoked in Pittsburgh, banning all Sunday sports in the city.
This is interesting in a variety of ways, particularly in that it takes a very Puritan view of the topic. In Catholic England sports on Sunday had been a huge deal, part of the Catholic view of life that Sunday, the Lord's Day, was a sort of feast. Puritans, however, held a dour view on everything, and during the Cromwellian period, banned sports.
All in all, for what it's worth, I think blue laws are a good idea. I wouldn't ban sports, however. I would, if I could, shut down Sunday commerce however, even electronic commerce.
Babe Ruth hit his third home run in the 1926 World Series. The Yankees beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10 to 5. This has only been repeated twice, once in 1977, by Reggie Jackson, and once in 2011, by Albert Pujols.
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Monday, October 4, 1926. Cristero War in Guanajuato, Phar Lap, Radio recipes.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, A Mystery, Cristero War, Food, Great Depression, Horse Racing, Islam, Mexico, Mexico (Guanajuato), New Zealand, Radio, Turkey
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Monday, October 4, 1926. Cristero War in Guanajuato, Phar Lap, Radio recipes.
Gen. Rodolfo Gallegos led an uprising in Guanajuato, Mexico, bringing the region into the Cristero War.
Islamic courts were closed in Turkey, Turkey having completely supplanted Islamic Law with secular civil law.
Great New Zealand born racehorse Phar Lap was foaled.
Like Seabiscuit, he provided much needed hope during the Great Depression.
The horse died at age 5 in California under still debated circumstances.
Running in its original version until 1934, the show was influential. For instance, it helped improve Chinese American food by expounding on traditional Chinese cooking methods.
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Sunday, October 3, 1926. First postseason no hitter.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1926 Colored World Series, 1926 World Series, 1960s, 1967, baseball, Catholic, Michigan (Detroit), Personalities, Radio, religion, Sports
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Sunday, October 3, 1926. First postseason no hitter.
The first post season no hitter was pitched by Red Grier of the Bacharach Giants in Game 3 of the Colored World Series, against the Chicago American Giants.
St. Louis won game two of the World Series.
Fr. Charles Coughlin began his broadcast of his weekly sermons on radio station WJR of Detroit.
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Saturday, October 2, 1926. Game 1 of the 1911 World Series.
Friday, October 2, 2026
Saturday, October 2, 1926. Game 1 of the 1911 World Series.
Cardinals 1, Yankees 2.
It was a Saturday.
Saturday, September 25, 1926. A five day work week.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, Art, Diplomacy, Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, J. C. Leyendecker, League of Nations, Slavery, Work
Friday, September 25, 2026
Saturday, September 25, 1926. A five day work week.
Henry Ford introduced the eight-hour day and five-day workweek at the Ford Motor Company.
The eight hour workday was revolutionary in and of itself, but so was a five day workweek. This introduced the American and indeed global standard.
That standard has massively eroded in recent decades as the US has moved towards a seven day a week, twenty four hour a day, standard. Serious efforts need to be taken to restore it, including blue laws.
The League of Nations Slavery Convention was signed by representatives of Australia, Austria, Belgium, British India, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Haiti, Latvia, Nicaragua, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The pact bound signators to abolish slavery within their jurisdictions.
It was a Saturday, which Ford workers now had off.
The Saturday Evening post "September Bride" issue also had an advertisement illustrated by Leyendecker depicting students as they were imagined to look like at the time, and which in fact was relatively accurate.
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Saturday, September 18, 1926. 1926 Miami Hurricane.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1920s, 1926, 1990s, 1997, Art, Clothing, Florida, Florida (Miami), J. C. Leyendecker, Personalities, Weather
Friday, September 18, 2026
Saturday, September 18, 1926. 1926 Miami Hurricane.
A category 4 hurricane made landfall at Miami.
The 1926 Miami Hurricane would result in the deaths of over 500 people.
It was a Saturday.
The company survived until 1997 when it was sold to The Men's Warehouse.
Famous cartoon artist Joe Kubert was born in what was then part of Poland and now part of Ukraine to Jewish parents. He grew up in Brooklyn. He was an artist from an early age, and served in the Second World War in which the Army assigned him as a sign painter. His most famous cartoon is Sgt. Rock.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Wednesday, September 15, 1926. The Vineyard.
Rudyard Kipling released Debits and Credits. It contained the following poem.
The Vineyard
1
At the eleventh hour he came,
But his wages were the same
As ours who all day long had trod
The wine-press of the Wrath of God.
2
When he shouldered through the lines
Of our cropped and mangled vines,
His unjaded eye could scan
How each hour had marked its man.
3
(Children of the morning-tide
With the hosts of noon had died,
And our noon contingents lay
Dead with twilight's spent array.)
4
Since his back had felt no load,
Virtue still in him abode
So he swiftly made his own
Those last spoils we had not won.
5
We went home delivered thence,
Grudging him no recompense
Till he portioned praise of blame
To our works before he came.
6
Till he showed us for our good–
Deaf to mirth, and blind to scorn–
How we might have best withstood
Burdens that he had not borne!
It was interpreted as a criticism of the US's late entry into World War One, which it seems to have been. The bigger question may really have been, however, why the US would have had any reason to enter World War One but for German naval actions on the Atlantic.
Jelly Roll Morton released Black Bottom Stomp.
World War One German ace George Meyer was killed in a motorcycle accident.
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Monday, September 13, 1926. Bigots march in Washington.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Monday, September 13, 1926. Bigots march in Washington.
15,000 member of of the Ku Klux Klan marched in Washington, D.C.
At one time this would truly seem like something relegated to history. But in the Trump era, large groups of the ignorant and bigots are features of national life once again.
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Saturday, September 11, 1926. Assassination attempt on Mussolini.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1940s, 1943, Anarchy, Art, German Luftwaffe, Italy, Mussolini, The Jazz Age, The Roaring Twenties, World War Two
Friday, September 11, 2026
Saturday, September 11, 1926. Assassination attempt on Mussolini.
A bombing attempt against Mussolini by Italian anarchist Gino Lucetti failed.
He escaped imprisonment in 1943 only to die in a German air raid that same year.
Mussolini survived six known assassination attempts. Far fewer than Hitler, but still quite a few. I note that as the assertion that Donald Trump survived two such attempts and therefore is favored by God deserves some reflection, accordingly. Granted, I'm not suggesting that assassination is in any way warranted. I wouldn't have said that about Mussolini either. Murder is not sanctioned by God.
I'd also note that anarchist were big into assassination, although its difficult to see how that advanced their goals, assuming that their goal was not to be hated.
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Wednesday, September 8, 1926. The Vatican denounces Action française.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1930s, 1939, Action française, Catholic, France, Monarchy, religion, Vichy France
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Wednesday, September 8, 1926. The Vatican denounces Action française.
Germany was admitted to the League of Nations.
By Original: Restauration Nationale-Centre Royaliste d'Action Française Vector: Mrmw - Own work based on: Logo RN-CRAF 2019.jpg:, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113702345
Pope Pius XI condemned the French far right, monarchist movement Action française and prohibited Catholics from joining the movement or reading its publications.
The organization supported restoring the House of Bourbon-Orléans and the Catholic Church as the state religion. Therefore, the Church was directly challenging one of the organizations tenants. The Vatican viewed the organizations Catholicism as being cultural, and not really religious, resulting in the condemnation. The ban was lifted in 1939 after it promised to address Vatican objections.
Action française supported the Vichy regime during World War Two. It still exists, albeit in a much reduced form.
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Monday, September 6, 1926. Chiang Kai-shek enters Hankou.
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Monday, September 6, 1926. Chiang Kai-shek enters Hankou.
The Kuomintang and the Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army, which were essentially the same thing, captured the port of Hankou in Hubei province.
There are real reasons why, in recent years, Chiang has seen a reappraisal of his reputation. He truly was a major unifying force in warlord era China, and one which, in spite of his later opposition to them, the Chinese Communists would not have prevailed. His failure to win the later civil war can be debated as to cause. The country today may bear a closer resemblance to what he envisioned than to what Mao did.
3,000 mourners turned out to observe Rudolph Valentino's funeral train arrive in Los Angeles.
It was Labor Day in the United States.
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Sunday, September 5, 1926. British fight at Wanxian.
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Sunday, September 5, 1926. British fight at Wanxian.
The British intervened at Wanxian with bluejackets and marines to rescue the hostages on the Wahnsien and Wantung. A bombardment by the Royal Navy destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in the city, killed 250 Chinese soldiers and 100 civilians.
The Valentina film The Son of the Sheik was released, making the release of the film a posthumous one.
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Tuesday, August 31, 1926. Non aggression pacts and spiffy caps.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, Afghanistan, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Greece, Greek Army, Kuomintang, Personalities, Republic of China, USSR
Monday, August 31, 2026
Tuesday, August 31, 1926. Non aggression pacts and spiffy caps.
The Soviet Union and Afghan government signed a Pact of Neutrality and Non-Aggression.
General Yang Sen seized the SS Wanhsien for a second time in a week, and captured a second ship. The HMS Cockchafer lacked sufficient bluejackets to intervene, so it radioed for help.
The general would subsequently join the Kuomintang that year and side with Chiang Kai-shek following the latters expulsion of the Communists. He became a figure in the Nationalist Chinese Army and ended up in exile in Taiwan.
He was also an avid mountaineer.
A polygamist, he had 22 daughters and 21 sons born between 1912 and 1960. He died in 1977 at age 93.
Shakeups were occuring in Greece due to the recent overthrowal of the military government there, including the sacking of the Army Chief of Staff, Major General Ptolemaios Sarigiannis.
He was imprisoned by the Germans during World War Two and served a role in the post war Greek government.
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Monday, August 30, 1926. The end of Italian voting.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, actors and actresses, boats and ships, Catholic, Disaster, Fascism, religion, Russia (Kronstadt)
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