Today -100: August 24, 1926: The last of The Sheik

Rudolph Valentino dies at 31. In the 90 minutes before he went into a coma, “At intervals he cried out in Italian which no one at his bedside understood.” Pola Negri, who claimed to be engaged to him, is performatively prostrated.

Manuel Quezon warns the Philippines Senate that if the Republicans win the 1928 US presidential election, they will annex the Philippines, like Hawaii.

Uruguay is the first  South American country to recognize the Soviet Union.

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