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.
- March 15, 1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- April 6, 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
- May 18, 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
- June 23, 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- August 6, 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- August 20, 1926 – Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
- September 8, 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
- September 9, 1926 – The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 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 11, 1926 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
- 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 25, 1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
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