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.
- March 16, 1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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.
- June 14, 1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations
- 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.
- 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.
- October 24, 1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
- 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.
Are you not curious to learn some fun facts about your birthday? Find out who shares your birthday, number one song, and the meaning of your day of birth. (Sponsored link)
Share or Link to This Page: