1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1926 - Events. 1926 - January-April. January 1 - Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting. January 1, Turkey switches to the Gregorian calendar after reforms set by Kamal Ataturk January 8 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz January 12 - Freeman Gosden and Charles ...

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1926 - January. January 3 - George Martin, English producer of The Beatles January 8 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano January 8 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer January 8 - Soupy Sales, American comedian January 11 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (d. 1998) January 12 - Ray Price, American singer January 14 - Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005) January 14 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (d. 1991) January 17 - Moira Shearer, Sc ...

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See also: 1925 in literature, other events of 1926, 1927 in literature, list of years in literature. 1926 in literature - Events. Bread Loaf Writers' Conference founded in Middlebury, Vermont. Ford Madox Ford publishes A Man Could Stand Up. It is the third book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928. October 14 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is published for the first time. 192 ...

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The Balfour Declaration of 1926 is a report of the October-November 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London. It states that the United Kingdom and the Dominions "are autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations". It was first introduced by Can ...

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Amazing Stories magazine, sometimes retitled Amazing Science Fiction, was first published in April 1926, thereby becoming the first magazine devoted exclusively to publishing stories in the genre presently known as science fiction and one of the pioneers of science fiction in the English-speaking world. Created by Hugo Gernsback, many today would regard it as a classic pulp magazine, since it was printed on cheap pulp paper with sometimes lurid cover art (much of it by the legendary Frank R. Paul), and a mu ...

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Alberta Christine Williams King (September 13, 1903 – June 30, 1974) was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. She played a significant role in the affairs of the Ebenezer Baptist Church where both her husband and her son preached. King was shot dead in the church six years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Alberta Williams King - Early Life 1904-1926. She was born Alberta Christine Williams, the only daughter of A.D. Williams, who was then the head of th ...

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Professional boxing in the 1920s was basically a sport that was practiced only in the United States, although several world champions went abroad for exhibition fights. Many fights during this era, some 20 years away or so from the television era, were social events with many thousands in attendance, both men and women. World Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was one of the most important fighters of this era. He won the title in 1919, keeping it until 1926. He lost the title to Gene Tunney in 1926, but many of his fights were ...

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Виктор Михайлович Васнецов) (May 15 (N.S.), 1848—1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art. Viktor Vasnetsov - Biography. Viktor Vasnetsov - Childhood 1848-1858. Viktor Vasnetsov was born in a remote village of Vyatka guberniya in 1848. His father Mikhail Vasilievich Vasnetsov was a village priest. He was a wel ...

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• Viktor Vasnetsov - Moscow 1877-1884
• Viktor Vasnetsov - Kiev 1884-1889
• Viktor Vasnetsov - Later years 1890-1926
• Viktor Vasnetsov - Some works
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Aristide Briand (March 28, 1862 – March 7, 1932) was a French statesman. He was born at Nantes, of a bourgeois family. He studied law, and soon went into politics, associating himself with the most advanced movements, writing articles for the anarchist journal Le Peuple, and directing the Lanterne for some time. From this he passed to the Petite République, leaving it to found < ...

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• Aristide Briand - Briand's fourth Government 29 October 1915 - 12 December 1916
• Aristide Briand - Briand's fifth Government 12 December 1916 - 20 March 1917
• Aristide Briand - Briand's sixth Government 16 January 1921 - 15 January 1922
• Aristide Briand - Briand's seventh Government 28 November 1925 - 9 March 1926
• Aristide Briand - Briand's eighth Government 9 March - 23 June 1926
• Aristide Briand - Briand's Ninth Government 23 June - 19 July 1926
• Aristide Briand - Briand's tenth Government 29 July - 3 November 1929

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The British Broadcasting Company Ltd was a British commercial company formed on October 18, 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Its original office was located on the fifth floor of the General Electric building in London. On December 14, 1922, John Reith was hired to become the Managing Director of the company. On December 31, 1926, the company was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the Crown Chartered British Broadcasting Corporation. British Broadcasting Co ...

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• British Broadcasting Company - Advent of wireless broadcasting
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• British Broadcasting Company - Test transmissions resume
• British Broadcasting Company - Incorporation and shares
• British Broadcasting Company - Directors
• British Broadcasting Company - International origins
• British Broadcasting Company - 1922-1926 BBC Timeline
• British Broadcasting Company - 1922
• British Broadcasting Company - 1923
• British Broadcasting Company - 1924
• British Broadcasting Company - 1925
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The Chinese Civil War (Traditional: 國共内戰; Simplified: 国共内战; Hanyu Pinyin: guógòng neìzhàn; literally "Nationalist-Communist Civil War") was a conflict in China between the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party; KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CCP). It began in 1926 when the KMT, led by newly-appointed Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek put a stop to leftist and Communist party-infiltration by purging these members fro ...

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• Chinese Civil War - Second Sino-Japanese War 1937–1945
• Chinese Civil War - Post-war power struggle 1945–1947
• Chinese Civil War - Final stage of fighting 1946–1949
• Chinese Civil War - The War after 1949
• Chinese Civil War - People
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• Chinese Civil War - Communist Party
• Chinese Civil War - Warlords

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Albert Abraham Michelson, (pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931), was a Prussian-born American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light, and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received a Nobel prize for physics, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Albert Abraham Michelson - Life. Michelson was born in Strzelno, Poland (then Strelno, Provinz Posen Kingdom of Prussia) in 1852, the son of a Jew ...

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• Albert Abraham Michelson - Astronomical interferometry
• Albert Abraham Michelson - Reference in Bonanza television series
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Karl Friedrich Benz (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German automobile engineer. He is generally regarded as one of the inventors (with contemporary Gottlieb Daimler) of the petrol-powered automobile. Born in a modest home and a prodigy student, Karl Benz loved to ride his bicycle through his natal Karlsruhe and since then he pursued the dream of creating some motorized vehicle to replace it. Something finally accomplished with his Tri-Car of 1886 powered by a gas engine, and later by petrol. Though the genius also invented -- among other things - ...

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• Karl Benz - Benz-Söhne 1906 to 1923
• Karl Benz - Daimler-Benz and the Mercedes Benz 1926
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Image:Front-4.jpg Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mainly remembered today. Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are today the three most famous contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Clark Ashton Smith - Biography. Cl ...

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• Clark Ashton Smith - Weird Fiction: 1926-1935
• Clark Ashton Smith - Sculpture: 1935-1961
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Arthur Machen (March 3, 1863 – December 15th, 1947) was a leading Welsh-born author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. He also is well known for a leading role in creating the myth of the Angels of Mons. Arthur Machen - Biography. Arthur Machen - Early years. He was born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, in Caerleon in Monmouthshire. His father John Edward Jones became Vicar of the tiny church of Llandewi Fach, near Caerleo ...

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• Arthur Machen - The Machen Boom of the Twenties
• Arthur Machen - Final years: 1926-1947
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January January 6 - Deutsche Lufthansa is formed by the merger of Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr January 26 - Ramon Franco sets out from Spain in a Dornier Do J to reach Buenos Aires after 59 hours in the air. March March 1 - Four Royal Air Force Fairey IIIDs begin a long-distance flight, taking them from Cairo to Cape Town and then on to Lee-on-Solent, England, where they will arrive on June 2 March 16 ...

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1 special election held due to death of Samuel M. Ralston (D-IN) 2 special election held due to death of Bert M. Fernald (R-ME) 3 special election held due to death of Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) 4 Vare was never seated, due to charges of fraud and corruption in his campaign. His seat remained vacant until 1929. ...

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1926 in rail transport - May events. May 1 - Burlington Refrigerator Express (BREX) is formed as a joint venture between the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) and the Fruit Growers Express (FGE). May 8 - A. Philip Randolph organizes the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It’s considered a major labor as well as civil rights milestone. May 20 - The United States Railway Labor Act becomes law. 1926 in rail transport - July events. July 9 - The first use of a radiotelephone on a train, occurs on ...

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