January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of marriage May 5, 1926
The temperature on May 5, 1926 was between 6.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
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 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
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