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Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago.
July 26, 1925: Joseph Engelberger, the developer of the first industrial robot and an advocate for the expanded use of robotics, is born in Brooklyn. His Unimate robot arm was first used to weld die castings at a GM plant in 1961, and made an appearance on Johnny Carson’s show.
1925: Children at the Patronato de la Infancia orphanage in Buenos Aires.
July 26, 1925: Francis Ouimet (left) is congratulated by Winthrop Hershey, whom he defeated to win his sixth Massachusetts state amateur golf championship.
July 26, 1925: A Jewish carpenter with his daughter, who helps him carry some of his equipment in Czortkow, Poland (now Chortkiv, Ukraine).
July 26, 1925: Abd el-Krim, leader of the Moroccan Rifians who are at war with both France and Spain, says he is willing to begin negotiations on the condition that the two European powers recognize his republic as independent. His offer won’t be accepted.
July 26, 1925: "Three Chicago girls, vacationing at Santa Monica, Calif., have made the wearing of fur chokers with the bathing costume a fad at the resort. Nothing silly about it. The furs prevent sunburned necks. Left to right: Dorothy Knowles, Dolores Sherman, Margie Fellegi."
July 26, 1925: Vienna’s antisemites have formed an “organization for the production of purely Aryan plays with Aryan actors, for exclusively Aryan audiences.” This comes after Jacob Adler’s New York-based Yiddish theatrical troupe performed in the Austrian capital.
July 26, 1925: Tents being used as a chapel for open-air Sunday services in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec.
July 26, 1925: Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito’s brother Prince Chichibu plays tennis in Yokohama.
July 26, 1925: Gottlob Frege, a German philosopher and mathematician who became a founding father of modern logic through work in linguistics, dies at 76 in Bad Kleinen. His feats, including inventing an algebraic system of logic, were largely recognized only after his death.
