Stage actress Veronica Brady always celebrates her birthday on Shrove Tuesday by making pancakes in unusual settings. This year she is making pancakes for London road workers. Shrove Tuesday, known as “Mardi Gras” in the French-speaking world, is culturally known as “Pancake

Mrs. Saramheyman of Woodcliff, New Jersey celebrates her 103rd birthday by listening to jazz radio. Quite unusual for a woman who grew up in the 1830s and was in middle age by the Civil War!

A new Consulate of Lithuania is opened in Chicago, Illinois, which has a high population of Lithuanian immigrants and serves famously as the setting for Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle.’

The 1926 Mardi Gras parade is held in New Orleans.

Nikolai Bryukhanov is made People’s Commissar of Finance (Minister of Finance) for the Soviet Union.

The Government of Turkey announces that it will secularize marriage, inheritance, divorce, and adoption due to adoption of a Turkish Civil Code rather than a Muslim Sharia Code.

After leaving the Bamberg Conference, Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler’s lieutenants, is distraught, and says that he no longer has complete confidence in Hitler.

19-year-old Marion Talley premieres at the New York Metropolitan Opera as the youngest prima donna to ever sing at the Met.

Mrs. Louise Thiers, the oldest woman in Wisconsin, dies aged 111. Thiers was born in 1814, during the War of 1812. Her father fought in the American Revolutionary War - and she lived long enough to see monoplanes and radio.

“Putting Some Snap Into It,” from the Des Moines Register (Iowa).