1926 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1926?
- 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 9, 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd’s diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
- May 12, 1926 – UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
- 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.
- June 23, 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- July 23, 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- August 6, 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 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 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.
- 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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