100 Years Ago This Month: February 1926

FEBRUARY 1926

· The first theater production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby premieres at the Ambassador Theater on Broadway on February 2. Veteran stage actor James Rennie stars as the titular character.

· The National League holds a banquet at the Hotel Astor in New York City on February 2 to celebrate the baseball league’s fiftieth anniversary.

· An explosion at a mine operated by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company kills 20 miners in Horning, Pennsylvania, on February 3.

· Colonel Francisco Franco is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the Spanish Army on Feb...