Ready for a new challenge? Try guessing my birthday in just 6 tries with this fun twist on Wordle! Let’s see if you can figure it out. 🎉🎂 Play the Birthday Challenge now! (Sponsored by MyBirthday.Ninja)
Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
– Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd’s diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
– UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
– 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
– Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
– Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
– The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
– The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
– Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Who Were Born On ?
– Franco Cerri, Italian musician
– Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
– Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
– Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
– Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (d. 2011)
– Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian Violinist
– María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
– Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
– Jimmy Woode, jazz bassist (d. 2005)
– Oscar Brown Jr, American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor (d. 2005)