What exciting things happened in 1926?

Answer 1

Jan 1st - Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne

Jan 3rd - Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator

Jan 4th - Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator

Jan 6th - Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland

Jan 8th - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia

Jan 17th - George Burns marries Gracie Allen

Jan 20th - 2nd German government of Luther begins

Jan 21st - Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties

Jan 22nd - Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits

Jan 27th - 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London

Jan 27th - US Senate agrees to join World Court

Feb 15th - Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC

Feb 15th - Contract air mail service begins in US

Feb 16th - Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France

Feb 17th - Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die

Feb 17th - Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match

Feb 25th - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain

Feb 25th - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords

Feb 26th - Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street

Mar 3rd - International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)

Mar 4th - De Geer government in Netherlands takes office

Spanish Dictator Francisco FrancoMar 6th - China asks for a seat in the Security council

Mar 7th - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)

Mar 12th - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium

Mar 14th - A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93.

Mar 15th - Belgium's "black monday," franc falls

Mar 26th - ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies

Mar 26th - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America

Mar 31st - German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands

Apr 1st - Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren

Apr 2nd - Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta

Apr 3rd - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C

Apr 3rd - 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard

Apr 3rd - Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions

Apr 4th - Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president

Apr 7th - Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)

Apr 7th - Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose

Apr 11th - Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent

Apr 12th - Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms

Apr 13th - At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout

Apr 13th - Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam

Apr 16th - Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Apr 19th - 30th Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:25:40.4

Apr 20th - 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic

Apr 22nd - Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of securityApr 25th - Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi

Apr 26th - Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty

Apr 26th - Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943)

Apr 27th - In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance

Apr 29th - France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I

May 1st - British coal-miners go on strike

May 1st - Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings

May 3rd - British general strike-3 million workers support miners

May 3rd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)

May 3rd - US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933

May 4th - General strike hits Britain

May 5th - Geldrop soccer team forms

May 5th - Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"

May 8th - 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)

May 8th - A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

May 8th - Fire breaks out in Fenway Park

May 9th - Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole

May 13th - German government of Luther falls

May 15th - 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8

May 15th - British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike

May 17th - Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

May 17th - German government of Marx takes power

May 20th - Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes

May 20th - Railway Labor Act became law

Inventor Thomas EdisonMay 20th - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

May 21st - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double

May 22nd - "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1

May 22nd - Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China

May 23rd - Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate

May 24th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4)

May 26th - Lebanon adopts constitution

May 28th - Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal

May 28th - US Customs Court created by congress

May 31st - Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup

May 31st - Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia

Jun 1st - Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland

Jun 5th - Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3

Jun 7th - Swedish government of Ekman forms

Jun 10th - Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle

Jun 12th - 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2

Jun 12th - Brazil leaves League of Nations

Jun 14th - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)

Jun 15th - 7th French government of Briand falls

Jun 22nd - Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs

Jun 23rd - 8th government of Briand van France forms

Jun 23rd - Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's

Jun 23rd - The College Board administers the first SAT exam.

Jun 29th - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

Jul 1st - Canada restores gold standard

Jul 2nd - US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized

Jul 4th - Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth

Jul 4th - NSDAP-party forms in Weimar

Jul 9th - Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander

Jul 9th - Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal

Jul 10th - 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio

Jul 10th - Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage

Jul 12th - Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu

Jul 12th - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)

Jul 13th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)

Jul 15th - VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms

Jul 16th - Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc

Jul 16th - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos

Jul 17th - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)

Jul 19th - 2nd French government of Herriot, forms

Jul 20th - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.

Jul 22nd - 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)

Jul 28th - US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal

Jul 30th - Albanian boundaries deduced

Aug 1st - Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus

Aug 1st - Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona

Aug 3rd - Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus

Aug 5th - 1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, NY

Aug 5th - French & German trade agreement signed

Aug 5th - Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hrs before escaping

Aug 6th - NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel

Aug 6th - Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)

Aug 6th - Don Juan with John Barrymore shown

Aug 18th - Weather map televised for 1st time

Aug 20th - Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia

Aug 20th - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established.

Aug 21st - -22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos

Aug 21st - White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway

Aug 22nd - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

Aug 22nd - Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out

Aug 23rd - 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)

Aug 25th - Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece

Aug 28th - Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)

Aug 30th - Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)

Sep 1st - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms

Sep 1st - Turkey allows civil marriage

Sep 2nd - Italy signs treaty with Yemen

Sep 8th - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany

Sep 9th - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America

Sep 9th - Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die

Sep 9th - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.

Sep 10th - Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn

Sep 10th - Germany joins League of Nations

Sep 11th - 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)

Sep 11th - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu

Sep 11th - Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining

Sep 11th - US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship

Sep 11th - Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies

Sep 17th - Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die

Sep 18th - 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)

Sep 18th - Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250

Sep 18th - Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open

Sep 19th - 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague

Sep 19th - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.

Sep 22nd - Belgian crown prince Leopold & Swedish princess Astrid get engaged

Sep 23rd - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

Sep 24th - Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4

Sep 25th - 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack DempseySep 25th -Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms

Sep 25th - Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week

Sep 25th - International slavery convention signed by 20 states

Sep 25th - NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings

Sep 25th - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament

Sep 25th - Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant

Sep 26th - JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in London

Sep 26th - Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant

Sep 28th - Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signedOct 2nd - Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game

Oct 3rd - 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna

Oct 3rd - Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)

Ford Motor Company Founder Henry FordOct 4th - Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower

Oct 6th - Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5

Oct 7th - Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage

Oct 7th - Italian Great Fascist Council forms

Oct 9th - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution

Oct 9th - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) formsOct 15th - Austria government of Seipel, forms

Oct 15th - Philip Barry's "White Wings!," premieres in NYC

Oct 16th - Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed

Oct 16th - Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

Oct 18th - Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament

Oct 19th - John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle

Russian Revolutionary Leon TrotskyOct 19th - Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers

Oct 20th - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600

Nov 1st - Air Commerce Act passes

Nov 3rd - 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins

Nov 3rd - Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager

Nov 8th - George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay," premieres in NYC

Nov 10th - Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden

Nov 10th - Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37

Nov 10th - Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)

Nov 10th - Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA

Magician & Escape Artist Harry HoudiniNov 11th -Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager

Nov 11th - U.S. Route 66 is established.

Nov 13th - Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java

Nov 15th - 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)

Nov 15th - AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)

Nov 16th - NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0

Nov 17th - NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1

Nov 18th - Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico

Nov 19th - British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends

Nov 22nd - Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside Brit Commonwealth

Nov 23rd - Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in NYC

Nov 24th - KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions

Nov 27th - 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie

Nov 27th - Béla Bartoks ballet "Miraculous Mandarin," premieres in Keulen

Nov 27th - Italian & Albania sign peace treaty

Nov 27th - KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

Nov 27th - Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins

Nov 29th - Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager

Nov 29th - W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in NYC

Dec 3rd - Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)

Dec 10th - 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published

Dec 11th - Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam

Dec 11th - Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW

Dec 12th - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert

Dec 14th - Danish Madsen government, forms

Dec 15th - Facist national symbol elevated in Italy

Dec 16th - Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot," premieres in Paris