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.
- April 20, 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- 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 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 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.
- June 23, 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- August 6, 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 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”.
- December 17, 1926 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
- December 25, 1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
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