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Historical Events in February 1926

  • Feb 1 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
  • Feb 1 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
  • Feb 2 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
  • Feb 2 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Adelaide: In all-Australian final John Hawkes beats James Willard 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
  • Feb 2 Australasian Championships Women's Tennis, Adelaide: Daphne Akhurst Cozens retains title; beats Esna Boyd Robertson 6-1, 6-3
  • Feb 4 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
  • Feb 6 MLB St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees for cash and pitcher George Mogridge
  • Feb 6 NFL rules college students are ineligible until they complete their college careers

Walt Disney Studios

Feb 8 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios

  • Feb 8 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
  • Feb 8 Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
  • Feb 9 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
  • Feb 10 Building of Olympic Stadium Amsterdam, begins
  • Feb 11 UK transfers administration of Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific to New Zealand
  • Feb 12 Barendrecht soccer team forms
  • Feb 15 Brooks Atkinson Theatre opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
  • Feb 15 Contract air mail service begins in US

Sports History

Feb 16 Suzanne Lenglen defeats US champion Helen Wills in influential tennis match in Cannes, France

  • Feb 17 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah; 40 die
  • Feb 20 Montreal and Ottawa battle out just the second 0-0 tie in NHL history; dominant goalies are Clint Benedict (Maroons) and Alex Connell (Senators)

Event of Interest

Feb 25 Francisco Franco becomes Spain's youngest general at 33

  • Feb 25 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords
  • Feb 26 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street