1926: Encyclopedia II - 1926 - Events

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 Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking for extra money during the Depression. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy.
• January 16 – BBC radio play about worker's revolution causes a panic in London
• January 26 - John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.
• January 31 - British and Belgian troops leave Cologne
• February 9 - Flooding on London suburbs
• February 12 - Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature
• March 6 - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire
• March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
• April 7 - Failed assassination attempt against Mussolini
• April 12 - By a vote of 45 to 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.
• April 16 - Train crash in San Jose, Costa Rica - 178 dead
• April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
• April 25 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."

1926 - May-July

• May 1 - Coal miner's strike begins in Britain
• May 3 - General strike begins in support of the coal strike
• May 9 - Martial law in Britain because of the general strike
• May 9 - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots
• May 9 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
• May 10 - Talks between government and strikers begins in UK
• May 12 - March 15 - Military coup by Jozef Pilsudski succeeds in Poland
• May 12 - UK general strike called off
• May 12 - Roald Amundsen flies over north pole
• May 12 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3).
• May 18 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
• May 26 - Rifkabyl rebels surrender in Morocco
• May 28 - 1926 coup d'état commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal that installed the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship) that would be followed be António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.
• June 4 - Ignacy Moscicki becomes president of Poland
• June 29 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• July 1 - Kuomingtang begins a campaign in the northern China for unification
• July 9 - New military coup in Portugal, now by general Antonio Carmona
• July 12 - Lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey
• July 15 - BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.
• July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

1926 - August-October

• August 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Miguel Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
• August 6 - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England
• August 6 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• August 18 - British miner's union begins negotiations with the government
• August 18 - A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
• August 22 - In Greece, Georgios Konfylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos
• August 25 - Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship is finished in Greece and becomes a president
• September 11 - Spain leaves the League of Nations
• September 11 - Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i
• September 18 - Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and caused several hundred million dollars in damage; equal to nearly $100 billion dollars today.
• September 20 - Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, headquarters of Al Capone in Chicago. Only one of Capone's men is wounded
• September 25 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• October 2 - Jozef Pilsudski becomes prime minister of Poland
• October 12 - British miners agree to end their strike
• October 20 - Hurricane kills 650 in Cuba
• October 23 - Decree in Italy bans women from holding public office
• October 31 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.

1926 - November-December

• November 10 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
• November 10 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan
• November 15 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations (it was formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).
• November 24 - The village of Rocquebillier in French Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hail
• November 25 - Death penalty re-established in Italy
• November 27 - Vesuvius erupts
• November 27 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
• December 2 - British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to general strike
• December 3 - Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found in Harrogate hotel
• December 18 - Turkey converted to Gregorian calendar making 'tomorrow' January 1, 1927
• December 25 - In Japanese History, end of the Taishō period and beginning of the Shōwa era and the period of Japanese expansionism

1926 - Unknown dates

• League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.
• Afghanistan declares monarchy.
• Lebanon becomes a republic.
• Eamon de Valera organizes Fianna Fáil.
• The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.
• International African Institute is founded.
• Raymond Pearl publishes landmark book, Alcohol and Longevity.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Events", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki