1926

Events of 1926

Beginning of the Age of Aquarius, according to cosmologist Patrizi Norelli-Bachelet.
January 1
- Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting.
- Turkey switches to the Gregorian calendar after reforms set by Kemal Atatürk.
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 to strike it rich in the big city. 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 29 - Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown opens at the Greenwich Theatre
January 31 - British and Belgian troops leave Cologne.
February 9 - Flooding in London suburbs
February 12 - Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature

March 16: Goddard with rocket in 1926.

March 6 - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by water
March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
March 23 - Eamon de Valera organizes Fianna Fáil.
April 7 - Failed assassination attempt against Mussolini
April 9 - Hugh Hefner is born.
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 José, Costa Rica - 178 dead
April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
April 25 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."
April 30 - Bessie Coleman is killed after falling 2,000 feet from an airplane.

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
- French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots
- 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 10 - planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collided in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachuted to safety.
May 12 - May 14 - Military coup by Józef Piłsudski succeeds in Poland
May 12
- Roald Amundsen flies over the North Pole.
- 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 23 - First Lebanese constitution is established.
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 3 - Caudron C.61 aircraft operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne crashes in Czechoslovakia
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 Bombay.
July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Jon Lee in Barcelona
August 6
- Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England
- In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
August 13
- Fidel Castro is born.
August 18
- British miners' union begins negotiations with the government
- 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 Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos
August 25 - Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship is finished in Greece and becomes a president

September 1 - Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution therefore becoming a republic. Charles Debbas is elected president.
September 11
- Spain leaves the League of Nations
- 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
- League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
September 26 - Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey and becomes heavyweight champion of the world.
October 2 - Józef Piłsudski 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.

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 11 - U.S. Route 66 was established.
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.
- Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving the Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
November 25 - Death penalty re-established in Italy.
November 26 - Arrest of all Italian Communist deputies.
November 27
- Vesuvius erupts.
- 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 1926
December 25 - In Japanese History, end of the Taishō era and beginning of the Shōwa era and the period of Japanese expansionism

Widows pensions introduced in NSW
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta Canada
The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.
International African Institute is founded.
Raymond Pearl publishes landmark book, Alcohol and Longevity.
Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes
The Pike School of Andover, Massachusetts is founded.