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Gives details of Pres Coolidge's first fish catch at Osgood Lake
Service on the Interborough subways showed further improvement yesterday. According to Frank Hedley, President and General Manager of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, service on the elevated lines was 100 per cent. during both morning and evening rush hours.
An empty ten-car subway train was derailed at 12:21 o'clock this morning at Bowling Green station on the east side line, when Motorman Wm. Kelly, a strike-breaker, was taking it around the South Ferry loop after discharging passengers at South Ferry. The accident was attributed to taking the sharp curve with brakes set.
With service on the Interborough subway lines increased and with the impairment of service on its elevated lines so slight as to be almost negligible, the leaders of the striking motormen and switchmen made strong efforts yesterday to extend the strike to the men of the motive power department.
Amers of Czechoslovak origin seek to erect memorial to Woodrow Wilson
1926Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (died 2015)[†]
Murphy C. Anderson Jr. was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the Buck Rogers daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to PS, the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army.
1926Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)[†]
Ben Roy Mottelson was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.
1926Pedro Dellacha, Argentine football defender and coach (died 2010)[†]
Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha was an Argentine football player and coach. A defender, he was the captain of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 Copa América and earned the nickname "Don Pedro del Area". As a manager, he won the Copa Libertadores twice and league championships in four countries.
1926Mathilde Krim, Italian-American medical researcher and health educator (died 2018)[†]
Mathilde Krim was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of amfAR, American Foundation for AIDS Research.
1926Chiang Kai-shek accepts the post of commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, marking the beginning of the Northern Expedition to unite China under the rule of the Nationalist government.[†]
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and general who led the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 until his death in 1975. His government was based in mainland China until it was defeated in the Chinese Civil War by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, after which he continued to lead the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan. Chiang served as leader of the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party and the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) from 1926 until his death.