6 Major Events That Happened 100 Years Ago

One hundred years isn’t a terribly long time in the grand scheme of things, but a look back at life in 1926 reveals just how much the world has changed in a century. The global population was around 2 billion people in 1926, compared to more than 8 billion now. Global leaders included Japan’s Hirohito, then embarking on a tenure that made him the longest-reigning emperor in the country’s history, and England’s King George V, the grandfather of a future queen named Elizabeth.  In the United States, where Calvin Coolidge was serving as the 30th ...Read More