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January 26, 1926

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Headlines from January 26, 1926

JERSEY PROPOSES A 17-MILE TRANSIT LOOP WITH THIS CITY; Commission's Plan Calls for Tunnels at the Battery and 57th Street. PUTS COST AT $154,000,000 Huge Transfer Station to Be in the Meadows -- Emergency Measures Offered. QUICK ACTION IS ASKED Governor Approves the Program -- A Vast System for Northern Part of State Later. JERSEY PROPOSES LOOP WITH THIS CITY HARKNESS DISCUSSES PLAN.

By Special to The New York Times

Gov Moore submits report of North Jersey Transit Comm to Legis; plan includes construction of interstate tunnel loop for rapid transit between N Y C and N J; Sen Mackay introduces bill to make Comm a statutory body

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Notable Births

Farman Fatehpuri

1926Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani linguist and scholar (died 2013)[†]

Farman Fatehpuri was an Urdu linguist, researcher, writer, critic and scholar of Pakistan.

1926Joseph Bacon Fraser Jr., American architect and businessman, co-founded the Sea Pines Company (died 2014)[†]

Joseph Bacon Fraser Jr. was one of the founders of the Sea Pines Company, along with his brother Charles E. Fraser and father General Joseph B. Fraser who first developed Hilton Head Island into a popular destination. The Fraser Brother's pioneered many urban planning principals study and copied through the southeastern United States. He was inducted into the Home Builders Association of South Carolina Hall of fame in 2000. His philanthropic work includes past chairman of the Heritage Classic Foundation, which raises money for the non-profit PGA Heritage Classic Tournament and distributes the proceeds to local and state charities. The field house for Hilton Head Preparatory School is named in honor of him.

Historical Events

John Logie Baird

1926The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.[†]

John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.