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).
- 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 18, 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
- June 14, 1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations
- June 29, 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 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 31, 1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
- 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.
- December 25, 1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
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