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unusual facts about Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1926–1928



Albert Eide Parr

He was born in Bergen, was married to painter Ella Hage Hanssen, and the couple emigrated to the United States in 1926.

American Eagle Aircraft Corporation

Victor Roos, a co-founder of the 1921 Roos-Bellanca Aircraft Company in Omaha, Nebraska, had left a management position with the Swallow Aircraft Company in 1928, and was tapped to head the American Eagle-Lincoln Aircraft Corporation.

Animated cartoon

Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse was the first to use a click track during the recording session, which produced better synchronism.

Armando Martins

Martins made his international debut on 24 January 1926 in Porto against Czechoslovakia.

Carl Severing

He was Interior Minister of Prussia from 1920 to 1926, Minister of the Interior from 1928 to 1930 and Interior Minister of Prussia again from 1930 to 1932.

Cranbury, New Jersey

Jan Morris (born 1926), Welsh travel writer and historian, lived in Cranbury for several months in the 1950s whose impressions of the town are recorded in the book Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America.

David Legge Brainard

Brainard was awarded the Charles P. Daly Medal by the American Geographical Society for his arctic exploration in 1926, and in 1929 was awarded The Explorers Club Medal.

Earl C. Michener

In 1926, he was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the impeachment proceedings against George W. English, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

Faustino Aguilar

As a novelist, he authored the Tagalog-language novels Busabos ng Palad (Pauper of Fate) in 1909, Sa Ngalan ng Diyos (In the Name of God) in 1911, Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo (The Secret of an Island) in 1926, Ang Patawad ng Patay (The Pardon of the Dead) in 1951, Ang Kaligtasan (The Salvation) in 1951, and Pinaglahuan (Place of Disappearance) in 1906 (published in 1907).

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Gothaer Waggonfabrik

However, the company encountered a cash crisis in 1928 and the Dixi branded auto-business was sold to BMW: the Dixi 3/15 DA-1 was rebadged in 1928 as the BMW 3/15 DA-2, the name by which today the little car is better remembered.

Harold Arlen

Between 1926 and about 1934, Arlen appeared occasionally as a band vocalist on records by The Buffalodians, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti, Leo Reisman and Eddie Duchin, usually singing his own compositions.

Hugh Owen

Huw Owen (1926–1996), Welsh theologian, writer and academic

Innamincka, South Australia

In 1928 the Australian Inland Mission (a part of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia) built a hospital here, the Elizabeth Symon Nursing Home.

Jack Robert Nuzum

Judge Jack R. Nuzum was married for nearly a half century to Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (1926–2004), the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia and interviewer of U.S. Presidents.

Jemdet Nasr

The site was first excavated in 1926 by Stephen Langdon, who found proto-cuneiform clay tablets in a large mudbrick building thought to be the ancient administrative centre of the site.

John Connelly

John E. Connelly (1926–2009), Pittsburgh casino and riverboat owner

John Hartley Durrant

John Hartley Durrant (10 January 1863 in Hitchin – 18 January 1928 in Putney) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Lasata

Jackie's father John Vernou Bouvier III married Janet Norton Lee at St. Philomena's Catholic Church in East Hampton on July 7, 1928.

Leirvík ÍF

The club was founded in 1928, but they merged with GÍ Gøta 75 years later in 2008 to form Víkingur.

Leo Brent Bozell

L. Brent Bozell, Jr. (1926–1997), American conservative activist and Catholic writer

Leonid Tsypkin

Leonid Borisovich Tsypkin (Леонид Борисович Цыпкин) (March 20, 1926 — March 20, 1982) was a Soviet writer and medical doctor, best known for his book Summer in Baden-Baden.

Lordsburg, New Mexico

In 1928, John Philip Sousa presented Governor Arthur T. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican.

Lubocza, Kraków

In 1928 came (for the metropolitan councils of Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha) Norbertine sisters, to give children a free, Catholic education.

Lydia Mendoza

In 1928, as part of the family group, Cuarteto Carta Blanca, she made her first recordings for the Okeh Records label in San Antonio, Texas.

Malcolm Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes

On 17 July 1926, he married Beryl Dugdale, daughter of Lionel Dugdale of Crathorne, a former High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and sister of Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne.

Mel Bernie Company

Inspired by the Edwardian and Art Deco jewelry of the TV show’s period, this collection was created by the design team at 1928 and approved by the Downton Abbey producers in England through an exclusive licensing agreement.

Montreal Royals

In 1928, George Stallings, a former Major League Baseball executive and Southern United States plantation owner, formed a partnership with Montreal lawyer and politician, Athanase David, and Montreal businessman, Ernest Savard, to resurrect the Montreal Royals.

Nationalist Republican Party

Notable leaders of the Nationalist Republican Party, besides Machado, included Tomé de Barros Queirós, Júlio Dantas, and José Mendes Cabeçadas, Cunha Leal, who left to found the Liberal Republican Union in 1926, and, after 1925, Commander Filomeno da Câmara de Melo Cabral, one of the organisers of the 18 April 1925 Generals' Coup.

New Hampshire Wildcats

Students cast their votes using a ballot which appeared in the February 26, 1926, edition of The New Hampshire.

Oberelbert

Postal bus service between Montabaur and Welschneudorf by way of Oberelbert was begun on 11 November 1926.

Peki'in Synagogue

In 1926 and 1930 two old stone tablets dating from the Second Temple period were uncovered at the synagogue.

Peter Newman

Peter Kenneth Newman (1928–2001), English economist, historian of economic thought

Pfaffenhofen an der Roth

1928 - Hermann Köhl, Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld and James Fitzmaurice crossed the Atlantic Sea from east to west with a plane.

Pierre Bellocq

Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".

RAF Tangmere

In 1925 the station re-opened to serve the RAF's Fleet Air Arm, and went operational in 1926 with No. 43 Squadron equipped with biplane Gloster Gamecocks (there is still a row of houses near the museum entrance called Gamecock Terrace).

Reinig

Christa Reinig (1926–2008), German poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and dramatist

Santarcangelo Calcio

The club was founded as A.S.D. Santarcangelo, sports association in 1926, it is the reality most followed football in the area of Santarcangelo di Romagna, the team found a good following among local audiences.

Shanti Devi

Shanti Devi (11 December 1926 – 27 December 1987) was born in Delhi, India.

Song to the Auspicious Cloud

Several puppet governments established by the Japanese army, such as Provisional Government of the Republic of China, Reformed Government of the Republic of China, also used this anthem, as these puppet state recommissioned all the old Republic of China national symbols before Kuomintang came to power in 1928.

Stephen Paget

Stephen Paget (1855-1926) was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

The Pheasant Aircraft Company

Red Cherry Airlines started the first private airline in Saskatchewan with a Pheasant H-10 in 1928, using the aircraft for barnstorming charging passengers by weight for flights.

Thomas Danby

Tom Danby (Thompson Danby, born 1926), English rugby player

Three Choirs Festival

Herbert Sumsion, organist at Gloucester between 1928 and 1967, particularly helped to promote the works of native composers, including premiering works of Howells, Finzi, and others.

Tom Barrett

Leslie Stuart (1863–1928), English composer born as Thomas Augustine Barrett

Vickers Vulcan

# G-EBEM; Type 61 - Delivered to Douglas Vickers MP in September 1922, competed in King's Cup Air Race in September 1922, taking 7th place, disappeared off the coast of Italy in May 1926.

Watertown, Minnesota

Marion Ross – Film and television actress, born in Watertown in 1928.

William Spratling

Using money received from commissions he organized for Rivera, Spratling bought a home in Taxco, Mexico in 1928, where he began work on a book, Little Mexico, about this small mountain town.


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