The Al-Baqi' cemetery in Medina was razed under orders of Saudi King Abdulaziz ibn Saud in what some Muslims recall as The Day of Sorrow (Persian: روز غم Ruz-e Gham, Urdu: یوم غم Yaum-e Gham). The act was done primarily to enforce Wahhabi doctrine forbidding building structures over graves, viewing that as idolatry.
The cemetery before it was flattened. Numbered buildings are 1. Bayt al-Aḥzān (Arabic: بَيْت ٱلْأَحْزَان), House of the sorrow of Fatimah bint Muhammad 2. Mausoleum of four Shia Imams: Hasan ibn Ali (2nd), Ali ibn Husayn al-Sajjad (4th), Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (5th), Ja'far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq (6th) 3. Daughters of Muhammed 4. Wives of the Muhammed 5. 'Aqil and Abdullah ibn Ja'far 6. Malik and Nafi' 7. Ibrahim, the little son of the Muhammed 8. Halimah al-Sa'diyyah 9. Fatimah bint Asad 10. Uthman, the third Caliph.
The act was protested by both Sunni and Shiia clerics.
Violet Gibson shot Benito Mussolini, but only grazed his nose. The attack seems to have been a lone wolf type event with Gibson not being mentally well.
On the same day, although unrelated, three staffers of anti-Fascist newspapers were murdered in the country and journalist Giovanni Amendola died from injuries sustained nearly a year earlier.
Eamon de Valera proposed the name "Fianna Fáil" for his new political party which was scheduled to organize on May 16. "Fianna" (soldiers) and the Lia Fáil, the coronation stone for the ancient kings of Ireland, formed the basis of the name.
The hard to characterize republican party is still around. It's political positions have shifted a great degree over the past century and indeed the ability to do so is a self acknowledged feature of the party.
Watts residents voted to become part of Los Angeles.
Calvin Coolidge declined an invitation to send American delegates to a League of Nations conference in Geneva to discuss America's reservations about joining the World Court.
The first guard, during daylight hours only, was posted on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
More on that:
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial: 100 Years Since the First Military Guard Posted March 26, 1926: This feature commemorates the centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier guard, marking 100 years since the first sentinel was posted March 26, 1926. The story traces the origins of the Unknown Soldier of World War I, the expansion of the tradition to honor unidentified service members from World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, and the enduring mission of the Soldiers who maintain an unbroken vigil at Arlington National Cemetery.
General Chiang Kai-shek carried out a purge of Communists from the Republic of China's military and the Kuomintang party, In doing it, Chiang declared martial law in the Republic's capital at Guangzhou essentially effecting a coup.
While a major event, it's surprisingly understudied and the details are murky. At the time, Chiang maintained he was acting first in the face of an impending Communist coup. While its not at all clear that was the case, and many people assert it was a pretext, even the Communist have never had all that much to say about this event.
It was a Saturday.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department released 27 paris of Hungarian Partridges
Route 66 was recorded for the first time, the introductory edition of the Bobby Troup work by Nat King Cole.
Troup was a songwriter and actor, married to actress Julie London
London and Troup in Emergency, a nighttime television drama of the 1970s.
He was also a graduate of Wharton, which produced the unfortunate Trump and Gray, but that's another matter. He served in the Marine Corps in World War Two, by which time he was already a songwriter. The war did not really interrupt his songwriting.
Route 66 was an absolute masterpiece, and has been recorded an innumerable number of times, and was even used for the basis of a television series that ran from 1960 to 1964.
In some very real ways, Route 66 symbolized the post war world and its sense of youth, indicability, and automotive freedom.
Route 66 itself was one of the original U.S. Highways of the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. It became a huge factor in Depression Era migration to California, which makes the way its nostaglically remembered somewhat ironic, but as
College basketball player George Mikan, who was hugely popular turned pro.
He was a great player, and notably played with glasses. He struggled with diabetes in his final years, which focused attention on the plight of pre big money players.
He died in 2005 at age 80, a basketball great.
The Rocky Mountain News focused again on gambling.
Boston Terrier Sgt. Stubby, mascot of the mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, died at age 10. He'd served for 18 months in France in the Great War, participating in 100 battles and four offensives. He provided warnings of attacks and of the use of mustard gas, and captured a German soldier by holding him by the seat of his pants.
He was a genuinely heroic dog.
The Casper recaptured fugitives indicated that they'd left Casper by rail.
I posted this page for the bus schedule. I have a detailed thread coming up on trains, and then noted this. I wasn't aware that there was a bus by 1926.
A closer look.
What isn't clear is how long the bus trip took.
There is bus service from Casper today. Greyhound. We'll take a look at that in some future post.
Apparently unrestrained immigration was worrying some. Others were worrying about Wyoming's oilfield population leaving for Texas.
Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fuel rocket in the United States at his Aunt Effie's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.
Rocketry, like aviation, advanced like crazy. By World War Two rockets would be in use as ground weapons, air to air weapons, and of course, with the first ballistic missiles.
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