Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis. Date: April 21, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 21 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Date: April 7, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 7 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). Date: April 6, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 6 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
Chiang Kai-shek initiates a purge of communist elements within the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou. Date: March 20, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
History of rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. Date: March 16, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 16 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: March 14, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 14 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day…
The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird. Date: January 26, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 26 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. Date: January 8, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 8 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ is crowned emperor of Vietnam, the country's last monarch. Date: January 8, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 8 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
World premiere of Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola. Date: December 26, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 26 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)