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100 YEARS AGO: HISTORICAL

EVENTS FROM APRIL 1926

T he month of April
has been home
to many historical
events over the
years. Here’s a look
at some that helped
to shape the world in April 1926.

The United States House of
Representatives votes to impeach charges. However, Gibson is sent to a Northern Ireland, a reign that begins
District Court Judge George W. psychiatric hospital in England, where in 1952 and lasts until her death in
English on April 1. Judge English, she remains until her death in 1956. 2022.
who was accused of abuse of powers
and violation of bankruptcy laws, Twenty-seven sailors are killed when Germany and the Soviet Union sign
ultimately resigns on November 4.
the United States oil tanker the Gulf the Treaty of Berlin on April 24. Each
of Venezuela explodes as the ship sits country pledges neutrality in the
Residents of Watts, California, vote
to become part of the city of Los in harbor at Port Arthur, Texas, on event of attack on the other by a
Angeles on April 2. Residents vote April 11. third party within the ensuing half
1,338 to 535 in favor of consolidation. decade.
Australian politician Frederick

Warplanes of Manchurian warlord McDonald disappears while on his The Pahlavi dynasty begins in Iran on
Zhang Zuolin begin bombing portions way to a meeting with Jack Lang, the April 25 when Reza Khan is formally
of Beijing on April 3. The areas Premier of New South Wales, on April crowned the Shah of Iran.
targeted by the bombings are areas 15. McDonald, who had recently lost
of the city under the control of the a re-election bid to the Australian Illinois prosecutor William H.
Guominjun paramilitary group. House of Representatives, challenged McSwiggin is killed during a shootout
the result of that election and asked involving Al Capone and Jack McGurn
The national basketball team of Italy that his opponent, Thomas Ley, be on April 27. Capone and McGurn
plays its first game on April 4. The removed from office. McDonald’s did not know McSwiggin was in the
team earns a 23-17 victory over the disappearance is never solved, and car of a rival gang at the time of the
French national team. Ley is later convicted of the murder shootout.
of John Mudie in 1947.
The first recorded death of a person African American pilot Bessie
caused by a cassowary is noted in Canadian distance runner Johnny Coleman plunges 600 feet to her
Mossman, Queensland, Australia on Miles wins the Boston Marathon on death while preparing for an air show
April 6. Phillip McClean, the 16-year- April 19. The marathon marked the in Jacksonville, Florida, on April 30.
old victim, was attacked by the first time Miles had competed in a Prior to flying, Coleman had been
large, flightless bird while he and his race of more than 10 miles. urged not to pilot the aircraft, which
brother were trying to kill it. friends and family did not deem safe.
Elizabeth II is born to the Duchess Coleman insisted on flying, and an
Italian Premier Benito Mussolini is of York and the Duke of York on examination of the wreckage of the
shot by Violet Gibson in Rome on April 21 in London. Elizabeth grows aircraft after the crash found that a
April 7. Mussolini is unharmed, and up to serve as Queen of the United wrench used to service the engine
Gibson is ultimately released without Kingdom of Great Britain and had jammed the controls.