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| year=1926
| ya1=1927
| ya2=1928
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'''1926''' '''(MCMXXVI)''' was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will take you to calendar).

== Events ==
{{Year C}}
===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, New York|Harlem]] looking for extra money during the [[Great Depression|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]] - [[Flood]]ing on [[London]] suburbs
* [[February 12]] - [[Ireland|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 (scientist)|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 II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth]] born in London
* [[April 25]] - Reza Khan is crowned [[Shah of Iran]] under the name "[[Pahlevi]]."

===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 union]]s 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 (Portugal)|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 [[António Óscar Carmona|Antonio Carmona]]
* [[July 12]] - Lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in [[Dover, New Jersey]]
* [[July 15]] - [[Bombay Electric Supply and Transport|BEST]] buses make its début in [[Mumbai]].
* [[July 23]] - [[Fox Film]] buys the patents of the [[Movietone]] sound system for recording sound onto [[film]].

===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 (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 (general)|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 Hawaii|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 [[vermiform appendix|appendix]] ruptured.

===November-December===
* [[November 10]] - In [[San Francisco, California]], a necrophiliac [[serial killer]] named [[Earle Nelson]] (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then [[rape]]s his 9th victim, a [[boardinghouse]] landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
* [[November 10]] - [[Hirohito|Michinomiya Hirohito]] is crowned the 124th [[Emperor of Japan]]
* [[November 15]] - The [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] [[radio]] network opens with 24 stations (it was formed by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|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 [[History of Japan|Japanese History]], end of the [[Taishō period]] and beginning of the [[Shōwa period|Shōwa era]] and the period of [[Japanese expansionism]]

===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''.

==Births==
===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]], Scottish actress and dancer
*[[January 19]] - [[Fritz Weaver]], American actor
*[[January 20]] - [[Patricia Neal]], American actress
*January 20 - [[David Tudor]], American pianist and composer (d. [[1996]])
*[[January 21]] - [[Steve Reeves]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[January 27]] - [[Fritz Spiegl]], Austrian journalist (d. [[2003]])
*[[January 29]] - [[Abdus Salam]], Pakistani physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1996]])

===February===
*[[February 2]] - [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]], [[President of France]]
*[[February 6]] - [[Haskell Wexler]], American cinematographer
*[[February 7]] - [[Konstantin Feoktistov]], cosmonaut
*[[February 8]] - [[Neal Cassady]], American writer (d. [[1968]])
*February 8 - [[Audrey Meadows]], American actress (d. [[1996]])
*[[February 11]] - [[Paul Bocuse]], French chef
*February 11 - [[Alexander Gibson]], British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
*February 11 - [[Leslie Nielsen]], Canadian actor
*[[February 12]] - [[Paul Kurtz]], American philosopher
*[[February 16]] - [[John Schlesinger]], British film director (d. [[2003]])
*[[February 20]] - [[Richard Matheson]], American author
*February 20 - [[Bob Richards]], American track and field athlete
*[[February 22]] - [[Kenneth Williams]], English actor (d. [[1988]])
*[[February 27]] - [[David H. Hubel]], Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[February 28]] - [[Svetlana Alliluyeva]], Russian author

===March===
*[[March 1]] - [[Pete Rozelle]], American commissioner of the National Football League (d. [[1996]])
*[[March 2]] - [[Murray Rothbard]], American economist (d. [[1995]])
*[[March 3]] - [[James Merrill]], American poet (d. [[1995]])
*[[March 6]] - [[Alan Greenspan]], American economist and Chairman of the Federal Reserve
*March 6 - [[Andrzej Wajda]], Polish film director
*[[March 8]] - [[Sultan Salahuddin]] (d. [[2001]])
*[[March 13]] - [[Carlos Roberto Reina]], [[President of Honduras]] (d. [[2003]])
*[[March 15]] - [[Norm Van Brocklin]], American football player (d. [[1983]])
*[[March 16]] - [[Jerry Lewis]], American comedian
*March 16 - [[Charles Goodell]], American politician (d. [[1987]])
*[[March 17]] - [[Siegfried Lenz]], German writer
*[[March 18]] - [[Peter Graves (actor)|Peter Graves]], American actor
*[[March 24]] - [[Dario Fo]], Italian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[March 26]] - [[László Papp]], Hungarian boxer (d. [[2003]])
*[[March 30]] - [[Ingvar Kamprad]], Swedish businessman
*[[March 31]] - [[John Fowles]], English writer (d. [[2005]])

===April===
*[[April 1]] - [[Charles Bressler]], American tenor
*April 1 - [[Anne McCaffrey]], American author
*[[April 2]] - [[Jack Brabham]], Australian race car driver
*[[April 3]] - [[Gus Grissom]], astronaut (d. [[1967]])
*[[April 6]] - [[Sergio Franchi]], Italian tenor and actor (d. [[1990]])
*April 6 - [[Gil Kane]], Latvian-born cartoonist (d. [[2000]])
*April 6 - [[Ian Paisley]], British politician
*[[April 7]] - Dame [[Joan Sutherland]], Australian soprano
*[[April 9]] - [[Hugh Hefner]], American magazine editor
*[[April 17]] - [[Gerry McNeil]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[2004]])
*[[April 21]] - Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]]
*[[April 22]] - [[James Stirling (architect)|James Stirling]], Scottish architect (d. [[1992]])
*[[April 24]] - [[Thorbjörn Fälldin]], [[Prime Minister of Sweden]]
*[[April 26]] - [[Michael Mathias Prechtl]], German illustrator (d. [[2003]])
*[[April 30]] - [[Cloris Leachman]], American actress

===May===
*[[May 5]] - [[Ann B. Davis]], American actress
*[[May 8]] - [[Don Rickles]], American comedian and actor
*[[May 15]] - [[Peter Shaffer]], English playwright
*[[May 26]] - [[Miles Davis]], American jazz trumpeter (d. [[1991]])

===June===
*[[June 1]] - [[Andy Griffith]], American actor
*June 1 - [[Marilyn Monroe]], American actress (d. [[1962]])
*[[June 3]] - [[Allen Ginsberg]], American poet (d. [[1997]])
*[[June 6]] - [[Klaus Tennstedt]], German conductor (d. [[1998]])
*[[June 11]] - [[Frank Plicka]], Czech-born photographer
*[[June 16]] - [[William F. Roemer, Jr.]], [[FBI]] agent (d. [[1996]])
*[[June 21]] - [[Conrad Hall]], Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 25]] - [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], Austrian writer (d. [[1973]])
*[[June 28]] - [[Mel Brooks]], American entertainer
*[[June 30]] - [[Paul Berg]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Noble Prize]] laureate

===July===
*[[July 1]] - [[Robert Fogel]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*July 1 - [[Hans Werner Henze]], German composer
*[[July 4]] - [[Alfredo Di Stefano]], Argentine-born footballer
*[[July 8]] - [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]], Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. [[2004]])
*[[July 9]] - [[Ben Roy Mottelson]], American-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[July 15]] - [[Leopoldo Galtieri]], Argentine dictator (d. [[2003]])
*[[July 16]] - [[Stanley Clements]], American actor (d. [[1981]])
*July 16 - [[Irwin Rose]], American biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[July 28]] - [[Walt Brown]], American Presidential candidate

===August===
*[[August 3]] - [[Tony Bennett]], American singer
*August 3 - [[Anthony Sampson]], British journalist and biographer (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 11]] - [[Aaron Klug]], Lithuanian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[August 14]] - [[René Goscinny]], French comic book writer (d. [[1977]])
*[[August 19]] - [[Arthur Rock]], American venture capitalist

===September===
*[[September 7]] - [[Don Messick]], American voice actor (d. [[1997]])
*[[September 15]] - [[Jean-Pierre Serre]], French mathematician
*[[September 16]]- [[John Knowles]], American author (d. [[2001]])
*[[September 21]] - [[Donald A. Glaser]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 21]] - [[Noor Jehan]], Pakistani and Indian actress (she could have been born in [[1929]])
*[[September 23]] - [[John Coltrane]], American jazz saxophonist (d. [[1967]])
*[[September 26]] - [[Masatoshi Koshiba]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate

===October===
*[[October 15]] - [[Michel Foucault]], French philosopher (d. [[1984]])
*October 15 - [[Karl Richter]], German conductor (d. [[1981]])
*[[October 18]] - [[Chuck Berry]], American musician
*[[October 25]] - [[Galina Vishnevskaya]], Russian soprano
*[[October 29]] - [[Jon Vickers]], Canadian tenor

===November===
*[[November 2]] - [[Tsung-Dao Lee]], Chinese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[November 3]] - [[Valdas Adamkus]], [[President of Lithuania]]
*[[November 20]] - [[Andrzej W. Schally]], Polish-born endocrinologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[November 23]] - [[Sri Satya Sai Baba]], Indian guru
*[[November 23]] - [[R.L. Burnside]], American musician
*[[November 25]] - [[Poul Anderson]], American author (d. [[2001]])

===December===
*[[December 9]] - [[Henry Way Kendall]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]])
*[[December 13]] - [[George Rhoden]], Jamaican athlete
*[[December 16]] - [[James McCracken]], American tenor (d. [[1988]])
*[[December 17]] - [[Allan V. Cox]], American geologist (d. [[1987]])
*[[December 20]] - Sir [[Geoffrey Howe]], British politician
*[[December 21]] - [[Joe Paterno]], American football coach
*[[December 23]] - [[Robert Bly]], American poet

==Deaths==
*[[January 21]] - [[Camillo Golgi]], Italian physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1843]])
*[[February 21]] - [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1853]])
*[[March 5]] - [[Clément Ader]], French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer (b. [[1841]])
*[[April 30]] - [[Bessie Coleman]], American pilot (b. [[1892]])
*[[May 16]] - [[Mehmed VI]], last [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1861]])
*[[May 26]] - [[Simon Petlyura]], Ukrainian independence fighter (b. [[1879]])
*[[June 10]] - [[Antoni Gaudí]], Catalan architect (b. [[1852]])
*[[June 14]] - [[Mary Cassatt]], American artist (b. [[1844]])
*[[July 12]] - [[Gertrude Bell]], English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. [[1868]])
*[[July 26]] - [[Robert Todd Lincoln]], American statesman and businessman (b. [[1843]])
*[[August 22]] - [[Charles W. Eliot]], [[President of Harvard University]] (b. [[1834]])
*[[August 23]] - [[Rodolfo Valentino]], Italian actor (b. [[1895]])
*[[September 15]] - [[Rudolf Christoph Eucken]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1846]])
*[[September 21]] - [[Leon Charles Thevenin]], French telegraph engineer (b. [[1857]])
*[[October 20]] - [[Eugene V. Debs]], American labor and political leader (b. [[1855]])
*[[October 31]] - [[Harry Houdini]], Hungarian-born magician (b. [[1874]])
*October 31 - [[Charles Vance Millar]], Canadian businessman (b. [[1853]])
*[[December 4]] - [[Ivana Kobilca]], Slovenian painter (b. [[1861]])
*[[December 5]] - [[Claude Monet]], French painter (b. [[1840]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Taisho Emperor|Emperor Taisho]], 123rd [[Emperor of Japan]] (b. [[1879]])
*[[December 29]] - [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Austrian poet (b. [[1875]])

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Jean Baptiste Perrin]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Theodor Svedberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Grazia Deledda]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Aristide Briand]], [[Gustav Stresemann]]

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-'''1926''' '''(MCMXXVI)''' was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will take you to calendar).
+'''1926''' '''(MCMXXVI)''' was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
 == Events ==
-{{Year C}}
 ===January-April===
 * [[January 1]] - Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later ''Radio Éireann''), begins broadcasting.

1926 - Revision history

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