Mid-Week Pictorial; Moline, Ill., Dispatch
March 11, 1926: Tractors help cultivate the vineyards of Guasti in California's Cucamonga Valley.
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Mid-Week Pictorial; Moline, Ill., Dispatch
March 11, 1926: Tractors help cultivate the vineyards of Guasti in California's Cucamonga Valley.
Mid-Week Pictorial
March 11, 1926: A player takes a spill during a game of “motorcycle polo” in Boston.
March 11, 1926: Fred Niblo, the director of the year's biggest movie epic, "Ben-Hur," and his wife, actress Enid Bennett, return to New York on the liner Majestic. They spent two months on a tour of the Mediterranean and Middle East.
Starzl in 1986 (died 2017)
Starzl (left) and an assistant performing a liver transplant in 1978
March 11, 1926: Thomas Starzl, the surgeon who performed the first liver transplant in 1963, is born in Le Mars, Iowa. He also led the research resulting in the first anti-rejection drugs to make many other transplants possible.
March 11, 1926: A titillating fictional account of women's wrestling, including illustrations of the combatants, from French magazine Le Sourire.
Plummer
Washington Daily News
March 11, 1926: Samantha Plummer, the chief nurse at the Army's Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver, hasn't taken a sick day in 27 years. She is seeking a retirement pension at 69.
New Bedford, Mass., Evening Standard. Last year Schepp was in the news: bsky.app/profile/100y...
New Bedford, Mass., Evening Standard
March 11, 1926: Leonard Schepp, a millionaire importer and philanthropist known as the "Coconut King" for the source of his fortune, dies at 84 in New York. A foundation he endowed in the last year of his life is still bestowing scholarships in 2026.
(Lynchburg, Va., News)
March 11, 1926: The Virginia state Senate expels a member for the first time in its history dating to 1776. Albert Smith is found to have committed two felony forgeries in recent years under two aliases. Voters in his district will re-elect him and he returns in 1927.
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison
Debs
March 11, 1926: Socialist leader Eugene Debs rejects the idea of seeking a pardon, after the attorney general opposes amnesty for radicals like him imprisoned during WWI for antiwar speech. Debs, whose prison sentence was commuted in 1921, says he has nothing to apologize for.
(Western Mail, Cardiff)
Western Mail, Cardiff
March 11, 1926: Miners' Federation chief Herbert Smith (left) and fellow British union heads are seen at 10 Downing St. to discuss with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a commission report that urges state management of mines and pay cuts. Despite skepticism Smith vows to keep an open mind.
Became a fierce America First isolationist in 1939-41. In Philip Roth’s alternate history novel “The Plot Against America” he is the vice president to President Charles Lindbergh
Abernathy in 1969 (died 1990)
Abernathy (right) with King and Jesse Jackson in Memphis shortly before King was shot there in 1968
March 11, 1926: Ralph Abernathy, a civil rights pioneer who acted as Martin Luther King’s deputy at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and succeeded King after his assassination, is born in Linden, Ala. He and King were jailed together 17 times for acts of disobedience.
March 11, 1926: "Jimmy McHugh (at piano) and Irving Mills (center), known to radio fans as the 'Hotsy Totsy Boys,' disclose their latest composition to Jack Mills, 'the mayor of Tin Pan Alley,'" in New York. (Mid-Week Pictorial)
Van Rensburg
Gloucestershire Echo
March 11, 1926: Siener van Rensburg, a patriot and supposed prophet of the Boers during their conflicts with the British and Black peoples of South Africa, dies at 61. A book of his long-suppressed "revelations" has become influential for Afrikaner extremists who preach race war.
March 11, 1926: Revelers march through Paris playing music and wearing colorful costumes for the Mi-Carême (mid-Lent) festival.
March 11, 1926: A barn owl with its prey, a gopher, in Berkeley, Calif.
Two major innovations in American literature—the Book-of-the-Month Club and Amazing Stories, the first science fiction magazine—debuted on the same day, 100 years ago
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Hutchinson
Port Angeles, Wash., Daily News
March 11, 1926: A reporter covering an Arctic air expedition is killed by a propeller of one of the team's planes. Palmer Hutchinson, 28, of the North American Newspaper Alliance makes a fatal misstep on an airstrip in Fairbanks, Alaska, while trying to help free a wheel from snow.
(El Paso, Texas, Times)
Ruins on the site of Fall's Three Rivers ranch
March 11, 1926: The secretary of the company that operates ex-Interior Secretary Albert Fall's New Mexico cattle ranch is found dead at 34 in his car. Suicide by poison is later ruled. Fall is being investigated in the Teapot Dome case for bribes disguised as loans for his ranch.
March 11, 1926: Star pitcher Waite Hoyt airs out his arm during the New York Yankees' spring training in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Alexandria, La., Town Talk
Last summer's conviction of John Scopes for teaching the banned science in Dayton, Tenn., heartened the Christian fundamentalist-driven movement against evolution. No other state has enacted a ban but Texas has deleted all mentions of Darwin from school science textbooks. 2/2
Alexandria, La., Town Talk
Whitfield
March 11, 1926: Mississippi becomes the second state, after Tennessee, to ban the subject of human evolution from schools. Gov. Henry Whitfield signs a bill making it a crime to teach that "man is descended from a lower order of animals." Violators face fines of $100 to $500. 1/2
Mid-Week Pictorial
March 11, 1926: Serial movie star Allene Ray takes a break during a movie shoot in Los Angeles to feed her pet fawn.
(Port Angeles, Wash., Daily News)
Hutchinson
Port Angeles, Wash., Daily News
March 11, 1926: A reporter covering an Arctic air expedition is killed by a propeller of one of the team's planes. Palmer Hutchinson, 28, of the North American Newspaper Alliance makes a fatal misstep on an airstrip in Fairbanks, Alaska, while trying to help free a wheel from snow.
Bonnin
Springfield, Mass., Union
March 11, 1926: Author and lecturer Gertrude Bonnin is elected president of the National Council of American Indians in Washington. The Sioux activist vows to defend the rights of Indian nations to their lands and oppose "czarlike absolutism" of federally appointed agents.