The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7 by a score of 3 to 2 in extra innings
Oddly enough, given the 1911 entry, the Kuomintang captured Wuchang after a 40-day siege.
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Saturday, October 10, 2026
Sunday, October 10, 1926. Cardinals take the series.
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
Friday, September 4, 2026
Saturday, September 4, 1926. The National Revolutionary Army advances.
The League of Nations voted to admit Germany.
The National Revolutionary Army entered Jiangxi Province.
It was a Saturday.
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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)
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Sunday, July 11, 1926. The National Revolutionary Army takes Changsha, Hunan.
The National Revolutionary Army took the capital of Hunan, Changsha.
French World War One veterans marched in protest of the Mellon-Berenger Agreement (or Accord Mellon-Bérenger) on the repayment of the French war debt to the United States.
The first German Grand Prix was held.
The Tribune was reporting on a lightning caused disaster that had happened the day prior.
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Friday, July 9, 1926. The Kuomintang launches the Northern Expedition.
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Friday, July 9, 1926. The Kuomintang launches the Northern Expedition.
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Seal of the Beiyang government.
The Kuomintang launched the Northern Expedition against the internationally recognized Beiyang government and regional warlords. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was in charge of its Soviet advised National Revolutionary Army.
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Wednesday, July 7, 1926. Coolidge heads for the Adirondacks.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Sunday, October 11, 1925. The line of duty.
The China Zhi Gong Party as founded in the United States in San Francisco by a pair of exiled former warlords who opposed the the Kuomintang. It remains today as one of the eight minor Chinese political parties currently permitted to exist as flunkies.
M'eh.
FBI agent Edwin C. Shanahan, was fatally shot after following a suspected car thief, Martin James Durkin, to a garage. He was the first FBI agent to die in the line of duty.
It was a bit of an immigrants take. Dunkin was an Irish American, and so was Shanahan. Cop, and cop killer, both of recent immigrant stock, a story that was not uncommon.
Dunkin was convicted and remained in prison until 1954. He died in 1981.
The Senators beat the Pirates 6 to 3 in game four of the 1925 World Series.
At Locarno delegates agreed that due consideration would be given to Germany's special military status until such time as a general arms reduction plan could be implemented across Europe. This was thought to secure Germany's entry into the League of Nations.
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Saturday, October 10, 1925. The Chinese Imperial Collection.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Thursday, August 20, 1925. Thrills, frills and stills.
From Reddit's 100 Years Ago Sub.
The Republic of China's finance minister, Liao Zhongkai, was assassinated as he stepped out of his limousine for a meeting of the Kuomintang's Executive Committee. The Kuomintang had barred British and Japanese ships from entering or leaving Canton's harbor the day prior.
At the time, the Kuomintang was heavily left wing, with right wing elements, and veered towards a sort of Communism. It was backed by the USSR. It was also not fully in control of the country, and in fact, it never would be.
It's choice of allies and backers over the years would evolve enormously. After the right wing deposed the Communists, and the Chinese Civil War started, it continued to receive support, oddly, from the USSR, but also did from Germany, that support starting during the Weimar period and lasting right up until the Sino Japanese War, at which time the Germans withdrew it due to Japanese protests with some reluctance. It'd continue to be a friend of the Soviet Union's all the way through World War Two, but during the war itself, the United States became its major supporter.
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Sunday, August 16, 1925. Cuban Communists, Big Beer Haul, Dainty Ankles.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Wednesday, August 19, 1945. Bataan I and Bataan 2.
Japanese officials arrived in Manila to conclude the surrender there. They flew in two Mitsubishi G6M1- with green crosses rather than Japanese roundels.
Bataan 1 and Bataan 2 on Ie Shima., where they stopped for refueling.
The planes were assigned the flight names Bataan 1 and Bataan 2.
The Red Army kept on with its war against Japan, landing at Maoka on South Sakhalin.
Chiang Kai-shek forbid Japanese forces from surrendering to the Red Chinese forces and demanded of the Communists that they not advance.
The Chinese Communist prevailed at Yongjiazhen. 1300 Warlord/Nationalist and twentyone Japanese troops were killed on the Nationalist side.. Ninety-eight Nationalist troops and twenty-one Japanese troops were captured.
The Red Army took Tsitsihar in the Manchurian Plain and linked up with Chinese Communist forces in the region.
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Saturday, August 18, 1945. The last American KIA of World War Two. Anthony J. Marchione.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Wednesday, July 1, 1925. The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.
The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.
Ford Australia produced its first Model T.
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Sunday, June 28, 1925. Executing the Kurdish rebels.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Sunday, June 21, 1925. Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League
Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League (Việt Nam Thanh niên Cách mệnh Đồng chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會) in Guangzhou, China. It was Vietnam's first Communist organization and had the support of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang.
It'd dissolve due to internal splits in 1929.
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Saturday, June 20, 1925. La battaglia del grano.
Monday, June 2, 2025
Tuesday, June 2, 1925. A headache becomes history, Marines in Shanghai, and Amundsen lost
Marines in Shanghai and Amundsen lost.
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Monday, June 1, 1925. Lou Gehrig's Streak Begins
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Wednesday, March 18, 1925. The Tri State Tornado.
The deadliest tornado in U.S. History, the Tri State Tornado, swept across the states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana killing 751 people.
The Yunnan–Guangxi War began in China's Yunnan province over succession of leadership in the Kuomintang.
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Saturday, March 14, 1925. Spring.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Monday, February 23, 1925. Puyi moves.
Deposed Chinese Emperor Puyi accepted a Japanese offer of projection and moved to the moved to the Japanese concession of Tianjin.
An item from Reddit's 100 Years Ago Today sub:
Truly awful.
It's really the early 1920s, not the 1970s, that gave rise to a really powerful "women's liberation" movement, although you can find it building in the decades prior to that. The 20s, however, saw it really blossom in much the same way that it would later, with much of the same goals. As with the movement in the 70s, it met with some pretty nasty counter reactions.
Coeds themselves, meaning women in college, was a fairly new thing in this form. It wasn't really until the post war economic boom of the 1920s that a lot of women began to leave home to attend college for a secondary education.
I'm not a feminist, of course, but part of the horror of the Trump years is watching these sorts of attitudes creep back in and begin to be expressed openly.
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Saturday, February 21, 1925. A Republican President declares American Forest Week.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Calvin Coolidge, Cartoons, Clothing, Conservation, Daily Living, Movies, Teenagers, United States Forest Service, Women
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Thursday, January 29, 1925. 裁軍 and Flapper Fanny.
About 20 people were killed when representatives of the Fengtian Clique met resistance attempting to disarm about 1,000 defeated Jiangsu troops, who apparently weren't quite as defeated as thought.
Flapper Fanny Says was on day three of its new syndicated run. The cartoon would run until 1940, during which time Fanny ceased being a flapper. It had two different cartoonist illustrate it, both of them women.
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Wednesday, January 28, 1925. Russian Mercenaries
Labels: 1920s, 1925, China, Chinese Warlord Era, It was because of the Russian Revolution, Mercenaries, Shanghais in Shanghai.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Wednesday, January 28, 1925. Russian Mercenaries in Shanghai.
Russian mercenaries captured Shanghai for the Fengtian clique.
Displaced Russian military forces were a menace in China for some time. The refugee population was relatively large, and there's still a population of Russians in China.
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Tuesday, January 27, 1925. The 1925 Serum Run.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 Serum Run, Alaska, Animals, Chile, Disease, Dogs, Heroes, Iditarod, Medicine
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