1926 in the United States

1926 in the United States
Decades:	1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s
Years:	1923 1924 1925 – 1926 – 1927 1928 1929
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Events from the year 1926 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
• Vice President: Charles G. Dawes (Republican)
• Chief Justice: William Howard Taft
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio)
• Senate Majority Leader: Charles Curtis (R-Kansas)
• Congress: 69th

Events

January–March

• February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch.
• March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

April–June

• April 12 – By a vote of 45–41, 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 30 – African-American pilot Bessie Coleman is killed after falling 2,000 feet (610 m) from an airplane.
• May 10 – Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachutes to safety.
• May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
• May 20 – The United States Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.
• June 19 – DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

July–September

• July 12 – A lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey.
• July 26 – The National Bar Association incorporates in the United States.
• August 6 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• August 18 – A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
• September 11 – Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i.
• September 16 – Philip Dunning and George Abbott's play Broadway premieres in New York City.
• September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and causing 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, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.

October–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 11 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
• November 15 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).
• November 27 – In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.

Undated

• The Pike School of Andover, Massachusetts is founded.
• U.S. Marines intervene in Nicaragua to bolster the conservative government.
• American microbiologist Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes.

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• Prohibition (1919–1933)
• Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Births

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Deaths

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• April 11 – Luther Burbank, botanist
• October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, labor leader
• October 23 – Olympia Brown, suffragette
• November 3 – Annie Oakley, performance artist

External links

• Media related to 1926 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons