February 1926
month of 1926
The following events occurred in February 1926:
February 1, 1926 (Monday)
The Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Republic, a forerunner of what is now the Kyrgyz Republic, was created for the Kyrgyz people in the USSR, initially as a unit within the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. In 1936, it would be elevated to the status of Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, one of 15 SSRs at the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union.
The John Colton play The Shanghai Gesture opened on Broadway.
Died: Anna Kriebel Vanzo, 64, Norwegian operatic soprano
February 2, 1926 (Tuesday)
A play, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, premiered at the Ambassador Theater on Broadway. Produced by William A. Brady from a script written by Owen Davis, and directed by George Cukor, the first theater Gatsby production starred James Rennie as the title character and Florence Eldridge as Daisy.
Representatives of the governments of Britain and France signed a treaty of friendship on behalf of the British Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.
In Germany, four members of the illegal Black Reichswehr paramilitary organization were sentenced to death for politically motivated murders. State authorities had the court proceedings carried out under a veil of secrecy to "insure the safety of the state."
Baseball's National League held a banquet at the Hotel Astor in New York to celebrate its 50th anniversary .
Born:
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 20th President of France from 1974 to 1981; in Koblenz, Germany, where his father was stationed during the occupation of the Rhineland (d. 2020)
Nydia Ecury, Aruban translator dedicated to preserving the Papiamento dialect, a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the former Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao; in Rancho, Aruba (d.
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