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Mail Clerks Ordered to Kill Because of the increasing number of mail route robberies the Post Office Depatment sent an order to its 25,000 employees to shoot and kill and people who try to steal the mail. Ederle Beats Men's Record August 6, 1926 at 19 years of age Gerutude Ederle swam across the English Channel. Not only becoming the first woman to do so, but also beating the records set by the men before her with the time of 14 hours and 31 minutes. Blacks get a Week of Celebration Starting as just a week long celebration Black History Month, formally known as "Negro History Week" was on the second week in Febuary. This was the choosen week because it contained two of the most influential men when it came to the freedom of slaves, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln