Monday, February 15, 1926. King wins a by-election.

Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King won a by-election for the representative for Prince Albert, Saskatchewan district, ending the situation of a Prime Minister governing without his own seat in the Parliament

Air mail through a commercial air carrier was accomplished in the U.S. for the firs time.

Ford Motors was the contracted carrier.

Mehmet Celal Bey, Turkish Ottoman administrator who declined to carry out orders during the Armenian genocide, died at age 62.  He paid for his refusal with his official position.'

He compared himself to "a person sitting by the side of a river, with absolute no means of saving anyone. Blood was flowing in the river and thousands of innocent children, irreproachable old people, helpless women, strong young men, were streaming down this river towards oblivion. Anyone I could save with my bare hands I saved, and the others, I think they streamed down the river never to return."

In another context, he'd be regarded as a "righteous amongst the nations"

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Sunday, February 14, 1926. The Bamberg Conference.

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Monday, June 11, 1945. King gets another term. . . but it's a minority government.

A Canadian federal election was held in which the incumbent Liberal Party led by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was re-elected to its third consecutive mandate, but this time through a minority government.

It was likely a sign of things to come in the upcoming British election.

US forces captured the height east of Mount Yaeju on Okinawa but an accompanying Marine assault failed to capture Kunishi Ridge.

Japanese forces recaptured Ishan in Kwangsi Province.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided In re Summers, ruling 5-4 that the First and Fourteenth Amendment freedoms of a conscientious objector were not infringed when a state bar association declined to admit him to the practice of law, which seems obviously wrong.

The Soviets began the expulsion of Sudetenlanders from Czechoslovakia.

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Sunday, June 10, 1945. Action in the Far East.

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