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Everything about 1926 totally explainedYear 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1926
January-February
March-April
March 6 - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.
March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
March 23 - Eamon de Valera organizes Fianna Fáil.
April 7 - Failed assassination attempt against Mussolini
April 9 - Hugh Hefner is born.
April 12 - By a vote of 45 to 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.
April 16 - Train crash in San José, Costa Rica - 178 dead
April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
April 25 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."
April 30 - Bessie Coleman is killed after falling 2,000 feet from an airplane.
May-June
May 1 - Coal miner's strike begins in Britain
May 3 - The General Strike begins in support of the coal strike
May 9
May 10 - Talks between government and strikers begins in UK
May 10 - planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collided in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachuted to safety.
May 12 - May 14 - Military coup (the May Coup) by Józef Piłsudski succeeds in Poland
May 12
May 18 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
May 23 - First Lebanese constitution is established.
May 26 - Rifkabyl rebels surrender in Morocco
May 28 - 1926 coup d'état commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal that installed the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship) that would be followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.
June 4 - Ignacy Moscicki becomes president of Poland
June 29 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
July-August
July 1 - Kuomingtang begins a campaign in the northern China for unification
July 3 - Caudron C.61 aircraft operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne crashes in Czechoslovakia
July 9 - New military coup in Portugal, now by general Antonio Carmona
July 12 - Lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey
July 15 - BEST buses make its début in Bombay.
July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Jon Lee in Barcelona
August 6
August 13
August 18
- British miners' union begins negotiations with the government
- A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
August 22 - In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos
August 25 - Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship is finished in Greece and becomes a president
September-October
September 1 - Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution therefore becoming a republic. Charles Debbas is elected president.
September 11
September 18 - Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and caused several hundred million dollars in damage; equal to nearly $100 billion dollars today.
September 20 - Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, headquarters of Al Capone in Chicago. Only one of Capone's men is wounded
September 25
September 26 - Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey and becomes heavyweight champion of the world.
October 2 - Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland
October 12 - British miners agree to end their strike
October 20 - Hurricane kills 650 in Cuba
October 23 - Decree in Italy bans women from holding public office
October 23 - The Fazal Mosque is built, this was one of the first mosques built in London
October 31 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
November-December
November 10 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
November 10 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan
November 11 - U.S. Route 66 was established.
November 15 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations (it was formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).
November 24
November 25 - Death penalty re-established in Italy.
November 26 - Arrest of all Italian Communist deputies.
November 27
December 2 - British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to general strike
December 8 - Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she's found in Harrogate hotel
December 17 - Democratically elected government is overthrown during the 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état; Antanas Smetona assumes the power in Lithuania.
December 18 - Turkey converted to Gregorian calendar making 'tomorrow' January 1 1926
December 25 - In Japanese History, end of the Taishō era and beginning of the Shōwa era and the period of Japanese expansionism
Undated
Widows pensions introduced in NSW
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta Canada
The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.
International African Institute is founded.
Raymond Pearl publishes landmark book, Alcohol and Longevity.
Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes
The Pike School of Andover, Massachusetts is founded.
Births
January-February
January 2 – Harold Bradley, American session guitarist on country music records.
January 3 - George Martin, English producer of The Beatles
January 5 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
January 6
Kim Daejung, President of South Korea, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
January 8
January 11 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
January 12 - Ray Price, American singer
January 14
January 15 - Florence Buchsbaum, theater director and musician (d. 1996)
January 17 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and dancer (d. 2006)
January 19 - Fritz Weaver, American actor
January 20
January 21 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
January 26 - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980)
January 27
January 29 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
February 2 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France
February 6 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
February 8
February 10 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993)
February 11
February 16
February 20
February 22 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
February 27 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
February 28 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian author
March-April
March 1 - Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the National Football League (d. 1996)
March 2 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
March 3 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
March 4
March 6
March 8 - Sultan Salahuddin (d. 2001)
March 13 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)
March 16
March 17 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer
March 18 - Peter Graves, American actor
March 24 - Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate
March 26 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
March 30 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman
March 31 - John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
April 1
April 2 - Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
April 3 - Gus Grissom, astronaut (d. 1967)
April 6
April 9 - Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor
April 12 - Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer
April 14 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, teacher (d. 1996)
April 17 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player (d. 2004)
April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
April 21 - Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
April 22 - James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
April 26
April 28 - Harper Lee, American author
April 30
May-June
May 5 - Ann B. Davis, American actress
May 8
May 10 - Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (d. 2004)
May 15
May 18 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
May 20 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)
May 25 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach
May 26 - Miles Davis, American musician (d. 1991)
June 1
June 3
June 6 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
June 11 - Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer
June 13 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (d. 1982)
June 15 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
June 16 - William F. Roemer, Jr., United States FBI agent (d. 1996)
June 21 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
June 28 - Mel Brooks, American entertainer
June 29 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
June 30 - Paul Berg, American chemist, Noble Prize laureate
July-August
July 1
July 4
July 8 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
July 9 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 10 - Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993)
July 13 - Andrew Maher, American actor
July 15 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
July 16
July 18 - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
July 28 - Walt Brown, American Presidential candidate
July 30 - Sir Patrick Russell QC, PC, British High Court Judge
August 3
August 11 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 12 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
August 13 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
August 14
August 19 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
August 23 - Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, Chicano literary historian
August 27 - Pat Coombs, British actress (d. 2002)
September-October
September 3 - Uttam Kumar (Arun Kumar Chatterjee), the legendary Bengali Actor, is born in Kolkata (d. 1980).
September 6
September 7 - Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
September 14 - Dick Dale, American singer and musician
September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
September 16 - John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)
September 21
September 23 - John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
September 26 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 7 - Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician
October 9 - Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955)
October 15
October 17 - Beverly Garland, American actress and hotel founder
October 18 - Chuck Berry, American musician
October 22 - Gloria Carter Spann, sister of former President Jimmy Carter (d. 1990)
October 25 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
October 28 - Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
October 29 - Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
October 30 - Lois Wyse, American advertising executive, author and columnist (d.2007)
October 31 - Jimmy Savile, English DJ and television presenter
November-December
November 2 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 3 - Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania
November 6 - Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
November 7 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano
November 19 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d. 2006)
November 20
November 23
November 25 - Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)
November 26 - Peter van Pels, German-Dutch love interest of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
November 30 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
December 1 - Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
December 9 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
December 13 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
December 16 - James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
December 17 - Allan V. Cox, American geologist (d. 1987)
December 17 - Bill Keightley, "Mr. Wildcat". equipment manager for the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1962-2008 (d.2008)
December 20
December 21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach and philanthropist
December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet
December 31
Deaths
January - June
January 21 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
January 28 - Kato Takaaki, 24th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1860)
January 30 - Barbara La Marr, American film actress (b. 1896)
February 21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
February 24 - John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830)
March 5 - Clément Ader, French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer (b. 1841)
March 26 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
April 24 - Sunjong of Korea (b. 1874)
April 30 - Bessie Coleman, American pilot (b. 1892)
May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
June 10 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
June 14 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1844)
July - December
July 12 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
July 26 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman (b. 1843)
August 14 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
August 22 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
August 23 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
September 15 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
September 21 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
September 25 - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
October 20 - Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855)
October 31 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
October 31 - Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman (b. 1853)
December 4 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
December 5 - Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
December 17 - Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)
December 25 - Emperor Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (b. 1879)
December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Jean Baptiste Perrin
Chemistry - Theodor Svedberg
Physiology or Medicine - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
Literature - Grazia Deledda
Peace - Aristide Briand, Gustav StresemannFurther Information
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