1926 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1926?
- January 12, 1926 – Original Sam ‘n’Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos ‘n’Andy in 1928.
- February 13, 1926 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- April 24, 1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
- April 26, 1926 – Spanish tonadilla singer Raquel Meller appears on the cover of Time magazine.
- May 18, 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
- May 25, 1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People’s Republic.
- May 28, 1926 – 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
- July 23, 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- August 6, 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
- August 20, 1926 – Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
- August 22, 1926 – Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- September 8, 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
- October 14, 1926 – The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
- October 22, 1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
- October 24, 1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
- October 31, 1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
- November 15, 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- November 18, 1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize”.
- November 25, 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
- December 17, 1926 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
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