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October 14 – Poland presents President Calvin Coolidge with a 111 volume gift called a "Polish Declaration of Admiration and Friendship for the United States of America" comprising some 15,000 bound sheets with the signatures of an estimated 5,500,000 Polish citizens on the occasion of America's 150th anniversary of independence.
A $250 million, five-year plan to upgrade the United States Naval Air Force was submitted to the House Committee on Naval Affairs. The plan called to nearly double the number of Navy planes from 638 to 1,248 by the end of 1931. [7] Born: Dave Sands, boxer, in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1952)
1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the ...
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States. 1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933.
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The United States midterm elections were held. The Democratic Party picked up nine seats in the House of Representatives and six in the Senate, but the Republican Party maintained their majorities in both.
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties is a popular history book written by Frederick Lewis Allen, published by Harper & Brothers in 1931 and reissued in 1957. [1] Only Yesterday was a Book of the Month selection, [ 2 ] sold 1 million copies, [ 3 ] and was frequently assigned as college reading.