Showing posts with label Mecca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mecca. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Friday, June 18, 1926. Egyptian troops at Mecca.

Egyptian soldiers fired into a crowed of Muslims Najadis, killing 25 of them, following a protest that began when the Egyptians were playing music while carrying the Mahmal through the holy city of Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage, to which the Najadis took offense.

It's often forgotten in the West that Islam is far more internally divided than Christianity, a fact that's aided by the fact that there is no central head of Islam.

The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie was formed for stamp collecting and other branches of philately in at Castagnola in Switzerland.

It's the oldest such organization in the world.

Princess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, 74, former Queen Consort of Greece from 1867 to 1913 as the wife of King Geórgios I, and briefly regent for one month in 1920, died in exile in Rome.

Congress was getting ready to go home.



Congress of that era, and all the way up into at least the 90s, really did work harder than it currently does.  I've heard an interview of a member of Congress who was out of office for a decade or more and who was shocked when he went back about how much real work had decreased.  It's not hard to see that the current Congress is a model of being ineffective.

I wonder, in part, if modern transportation contributes to that.  And the net definitely does.

You could get really fresh butter in Casper.


I knew that you could get locally produced butter in the 20s (and 30s, and 40s, and at least the early 50s), but I didn't really give that all that much thought.

Weirdest coffee ad ever.


And Out Our Way explored a misunderstanding.



Last edition:

Monday, June 14, 1926. The Calles Law.

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Friday, January 8, 1926. Crownings.

Today In Wyoming's History: January 8: 1926  Wyoming Pioneer Association incorporated.  

It still exists.

Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd, was proclaimed King of Hejaz by the Public Assembly at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, brining Ibn Saud one step closer to being the King of Saudi Arabia, which he now effectively was.


Twelve year-old Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy was crowned as Emperor of Vietnam at Huế.  He'd reign as Bảo Đại.  He'd never be a popular monarch.

The Hassenfeld brothers formed Hasbro.

Last edition:

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Friday, December 5, 1924. Shades of the modern Middle East

The Sultanate of Nejd, ruled by Abdulazia Ibn Saud defeated the Kingdom of Hejaz in Mecca itself.  Hejazi forces remained thereafter only at the port of port of Jeddah.


The State of Syria (Dawlat Sūriyā) was created within the French Mandate for Syria by Decree No. 2980.  This united the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus under one common native assembly and administration.


Of course, in what was united, things are current disunited.

The State of Syria was smaller than contemporary Syria, in that it did not include the Alawite State.

The Italian fascists introduced legislation bringing about press censorship.

Last edition.

Thursday, December 4, 1924. Greed.

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Monday, October 13, 1924. Mecca captured.

Wahhabi forces took Mecca.

The Boston Bruins were added to the formerly solely Canadian National Hockey League.

Last edition:

Saturday, October 11, 1924.

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