March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
Day of marriage July 24, 1926
The temperature on July 24, 1926 was between 14.6 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
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