1926

Years: 1923 1924 1925 - 1926 - 1927 1928 1929
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1926 in aviation 1926 in film 1926 in literature 1926 in music 1926 in science 1926 in sports 1926 state leaders 1926 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 1 - Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting.
January 4 - Money forgery scandal in Hungary - Alfred Windischgratz arrested
January 8 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz
January 12 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking for extra money during the Depression. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy.
January 16 – BBC radio play about worker's revolution causes a panic in London
January 26 - John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.
January 31 - British and Belgian troops leave Cologne
February 9 - Flooding on London suburbs
March 6 - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire
March 16 - Dr Robert Goddard fires his first rocket propelled by liquid oxygen and gasoline
March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
April 7 - Failed assassination attempt against Mussolini
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 Jose, Costa Rica - 178 dead
April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
April 25 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."
May 1 - coal miner's strike begins in Britain
May 3 - General strike begins in support of the coal strike
May 9 - Martial law in Britain because of the general strike
May 9 - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots
May 9 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
May 10 - Talks between government and strikers begins in UK
May 12 - March 15 - Military coup by Jozef Pilsudski succeeds in Poland
May 12 - UK general strike called off
May 12 - Royald Amundsen flies over north pole
May 12 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3).
May 18 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
May 26 - Rifkabyl rebels surrender in Morocco
May 28 - Military coup by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
June 29 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
June 1 - Ignaz Moscicki becomes president of Poland?
July 1 - Kuomingtang begins a campaign in the northern China for unification
July 9 - New military coup in Portugal, now by general Antonio Carmona
July 12 - Lighting strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey
July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
August 6 - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England
August 6 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim the English Channel.
August 6 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
August 18 - British miner's union begins negotiations with the government
August 18 - 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 Konfylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos
August 25 - Pavlos Konduriotis announces that dictatorship is finished in Greece and becomes a president
September 11 - Spain leaves the League of Nations
September 11 - Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i
September 25 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
October 2 - Jozef Pilsudski becomes prime minister of Poland
[[October 12]9 - 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 31 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
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 15 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations (it was formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).
November 24 - The village of Rocquebillier in French Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hail
November 25 - Death penalty re-established in Italy
November 27 - Vesuvius erupts
November 27 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
December 2 - British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to general strike
December 3 - Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; At December 14 she is found in Harrogate hotel
December 25 - In Japanese History, end of the Taisho period and beginning of the Showa Era and the period of Japanese expansionism

League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery
Afghanistan declares monarchy
Lebanon becomes a republic
Eamon de Valera organizes Fianna Fail
The short-lived Western Australian Secession League founded

Year in topic

Births

January 3 - George Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records, later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
January 5 - Maria Schell, actress
January 8 - Soupy Sales, comedian
January 11 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut († 1998)
January 12 - Ray Price, country music singer
January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist († 1991)
January 14 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress
January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer
January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
January 20 - David Tudor, pianist and composer
January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
January 21 - Steve Reeves, actor († 2000)
January 26 - Ralph Brance, baseball star
January 27 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist († 2003)
February 2 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
February 6 - Haskell Wexler, cinematographer
February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor
February 11 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
February 11 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
February 12 - Paul Kurtz, philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist groups
February 15 - Dieter Lattmann, writer and politician
February 16 - John Schlesinger, film director
February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
February 20 - Bob Richards, track and field athlete
February 22 - Kenneth Williams, actor († 1988)
February 28 - Svetlana Josifovna Stalina later known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet author.
March 1 - Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989 († 1996)
March 2 - Murray Rothbard, American Economist († 1995)
March 3 - James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize winning poet († 1995)
March 6 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
March 6 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star
March 16 - Jerry Lewis, comedian
March 17 - Siegfried Lenz, writer
March 18 - Peter Graves, actor
March 24 - Dario Fo, author, 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature
April 1 - Anne McCaffrey, science fiction author
April 3 - Gus Grissom, astronaut († 1967)
April 6 - Gil Kane, cartoonist († 2000)
April 6 - Ian Paisley, United Kingdom politician
April 6 - Sergio Franchi, singer, actor († 1990)
April 9 - Hugh Hefner, creator of the men's magazine, Playboy
April 17 - Gerry McNeil, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goalie († 2004)
April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
April 22 - James Stirling, architect († 1992)
April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
April 30 - Cloris Leachman, actress
May 5 - Ann B. Davis, actress, The Brady Bunch
May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
May 15 - Peter Shaffer, playwright
May 19 - Peter Zadek, film and theatre director
May 25 - Max von der Grün, author
May 26 - Miles Davis, musician († 1991)
June 1 - Andy Griffith
June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet
June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer († 1973)
June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
August 13 - Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator
August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
September 23 - John Coltrane, musician
October 15 - Michel Foucault, philosopher
October 18 - Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll musician
December 13 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
December 20 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician
December 21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet

Deaths

March 5 - Clément Ader, French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
March 20 - Princess Louise of Sweden
April 30 – Bessie Coleman, first licensed African-American female pilot
May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman sultan
May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter.
June 10 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect.
June 14 - Mary Cassatt, artist
July 4 - Frassati Piergiorgio, Member of FUCI.
July 12 - Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
July 26 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman
August 23 - Rodolfo Valentino, italian actor
October 31 - Harry Houdini, magician
October 31 - Charles Vance Millar, rich Torontonian whose final Will sparked the Great Toronto Stork Derby
December 4 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovene painter (b. 1861)
December 5 - Claude Monet, painter
December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet (b. 1875)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Jean Baptiste Perrin
Chemistry - Theodor Svedberg
Medicine - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
Literature - Grazia Deledda
Peace - Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann