Today in History for Year 1926

Months in Year 1926: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 320

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 20th - 2nd German government of Luther begins
Jan 21st - Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
Jan 22nd - Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
Jan 23rd - Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in NYC
Jan 26th - Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London)
Jan 27th - 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
Jan 27th - US Senate agrees to join World Court
Feb 1st - Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
Feb 1st - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
Feb 2nd - 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
Feb 4th - Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
Feb 6th - NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
Feb 6th - St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees
Feb 8th - German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
Feb 8th - Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
Animator Walter Elias Disney Feb 8th - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios
Feb 9th - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
Feb 10th - Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
Feb 11th - Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ
Feb 12th - Barendrecht soccer team forms
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 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
Mar 6th - China asks for a seat in the Security council
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco Mar 7th - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
Mar 9th - Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
Mar 10th - Run on Belgian banks
Mar 11th - Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
Mar 12th - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
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 16th - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
Mar 17th - Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
Mar 17th - Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC
Mar 17th - Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
Mar 23rd - NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games
Mar 24th - The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
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 6th - Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1
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 18th - Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany
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 security
Composer Giacomo Puccini Apr 25th - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
Apr 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 1st - Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
May 2nd - US military intervenes in Nicaragua
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 10th - 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8
May 11th - Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
May 12th - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
May 12th - British general strike ends
May 12th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
May 12th - Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
May 12th - Umberto Nobile flies airship 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 677

Jan 1st - Claire Polin [Schaff], composer flautist/musicologist
Jan 1st - Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
Jan 3rd - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist
Jan 3rd - George Martin, record producer (The Beatles)
Jan 5th - Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts)
Jan 5th - Robert Earle, Baldwin NY, TV host (GE College Bowl)
Jan 5th - Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)
Jan 5th - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
Jan 6th - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
Jan 6th - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
Jan 6th - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
Jan 6th - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
Jan 6th - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate
Jan 8th - Evelyn Lear, [Shulman], Brooklyn, NY, soprano, (d. 2012)
Jan 8th - Jani Christou, composer
Jan 8th - Soupy Sales, [Milton Hines], NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
Jan 8th - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
Jan 9th - Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
Jan 10th - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist, thinker, and politician
Jan 11th - Alexander Gibson, conductor
Jan 11th - Elisabeth M J "Elly" Bakker, Dutch actress (The Miser)
Jan 11th - Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive (NBC-TV)
Jan 11th - Lev Stepanovich Demin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
Jan 11th - Phil Sidey, broadcaster
Jan 12th - Morton Feldman, NYC, composer
Jan 12th - Ray Price, country singer (Good Times)
Jan 13th - Carolyn Heilbrun, [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album)
Jan 13th - Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author (Change of Use)
Jan 13th - Michael Bond, British writer
Jan 14th - Frank Aletter, Long Island NY, actor (Mac-It's About Time, Tom-Nancy)
Jan 14th - Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist
Jan 14th - Tom Tryon, Hartford CT, actor (Cardinal, All That Glitters)
Jan 14th - Warren Mitchell, English actor
Jan 15th - Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
Jan 15th - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (d. 1996)
Jan 16th - John "Jack" Layden, local politician
Jan 17th - Clyde Walcott, cricketer (one of the three W's, later ICC chairman)
Jan 17th - Moira Shearer, Dunfermline Scotland, ballerina (Red Shoes)
Jan 17th - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer
Jan 17th - Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
Jan 19th - Fritz Weaver, Pitts Pa, actor (Josef-Holocaust, Day of the Dolphin)
Jan 19th - Libera Carlier, Flemish author (Action Station Go!)
Jan 20th - David Eugene Tudor, Phila Penn, composer
Jan 20th - Michael Higgins, Brooklyn NY, actor (1918, Wanda, Black Stallion)
Actress Patricia Neal (Jan 20th) Jan 20th - Patricia Neal, Packard Ky, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), (d. 2010)
Jan 20th - Robert L Van Citters, cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean
Jan 20th - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
Jan 20th - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
Jan 21st - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
Jan 21st - Paul Burke, New Orleans La, actor (Neal-Dynasty) [or Jul 21]
Jan 21st - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor
Jan 21st - Steve Reeves, Glasgow Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
Jan 21st - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
Jan 22nd - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer
Jan 22nd - Tom Blackburn, writer
Jan 24th - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
Jan 26th - Charles Tidbury, former chairman (Whitbread & Company)
Jan 26th - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
Jan 26th - Ronnie Hilton, singer (Moonraker)
Jan 26th - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
Jan 27th - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
Jan 27th - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
Jan 29th - Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist
Jan 29th - Bob Berry, cricketer (England slow lefty 1950)
Jan 30th - Ruth Brown, Portsmouth Va, actress (Leona-Hello Larry, Checking In)
Jan 30th - Lizbeth Webb, Reading,, UK, soprano, (d. 2013)
Jan 31st - Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust)
Jan 31st - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
Feb 1st - Douglas Johnson, historian
Feb 1st - Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey
Feb 1st - Stuart Whitman, SF California, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip)
Feb 2nd - Elaine Stritch, Detroit Mich, actress (My Sister Eileen, Company)
Feb 2nd - Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
Feb 2nd - Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera)
Feb 2nd - Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
Feb 2nd - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
Feb 3rd - Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer (Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH)
Feb 3rd - Glen Tetley, US choreographer
Feb 3rd - Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)
Feb 3rd - J Roy Rowland, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
Feb 3rd - Shelley Berman, Chicago, comedian (Son of Blob, Love American Style)
Feb 4th - John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer
Feb 5th - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, NYC, publisher (NY Times)
Feb 6th - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
Feb 6th - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
Feb 7th - Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
Feb 8th - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
Feb 9th - Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland
Feb 10th - Danny Blanchflower, British(?) soccer player
Feb 11th - Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera)
Feb 11th - Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor)
Feb 11th - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)
Feb 12th - Joe Garagiola, St Louis Mo, sportscaster/host (Today Show)
Feb 12th - Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus)
Feb 12th - Charles Van Doren, American quiz show contestant
Feb 13th - Barney Childs, composer
Feb 14th - John Clark, CEO (Plessey Company)
Feb 16th - Jack Levy, mechanical engineer
Feb 16th - John Schlesinger, film director, (Midnight Cowboy)
Feb 17th - Friedrich Cerha, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Jan 17th - George Burns marries Gracie Allen
Nov 10th - Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 101

Jan 8th - Emile Paladilhe, composer, dies at 81
Jan 12th - Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
Jan 15th - Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
Jan 21st - Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81
Jan 23rd - Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at 74
Jan 23rd - Joseph Carl Breil, composer, dies at 55
Jan 26th - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
Jan 30th - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
Feb 2nd - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
Feb 5th - Andre Gedalge, composer, dies at 69
Feb 21st - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72
Feb 24th - Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
Feb 26th - Frederik Pijper, Dut vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67
Feb 26th - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer, dies at 75
Mar 1st - Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
Mar 3rd - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer, dies at 58
Mar 5th - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
Mar 7th - Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan, composer, dies at 73
Mar 11th - John Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr), dies
Nobel Laureat Physician Camillo Golgi (Jan 21st) Mar 16th - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
Mar 26th - Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies
Mar 26th - Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
Mar 30th - Feliks E Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48
Apr 6th - Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43
Apr 11th - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
Apr 15th - Frank Iredale, cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies
Apr 19th - Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84
Apr 19th - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
Apr 23rd - Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies
Apr 25th - Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76
Apr 28th - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
May 1st - Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60
May 3rd - Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
May 9th - Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
Horticulturist Luther Burbank (Apr 11th) May 13th - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
May 15th - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
May 16th - Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
May 17th - Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
May 20th - Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for Engld 1892), dies
May 21st - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
May 21st - Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
May 23rd - Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73
May 25th - Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
May 26th - S V Petlura, Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard
May 27th - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
May 30th - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
Jun 1st - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
Jun 4th - Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks & Radiates), dies
Jun 4th - Fred Spofforth, cricketer (18 tests 94 wkts 41 Best match 14-90), dies
Jun 4th - Frederick Robert Spofforth, cricketer/demon bowler, dies
Jun 6th - Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52
Jun 7th - Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63
Jun 10th - Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies
Jun 14th - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
Jun 22nd - Hermann Suter, composer, dies at 56
Jun 23rd - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
Jun 25th - Symon Petljoera, pres Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris
Jun 26th - Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies
Jul 2nd - Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), dies
Jul 4th - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (Jul 11th) Jul 11th - Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, dies at 57
Jul 12th - Charles Wood, composer, dies at 40
Jul 20th - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
Aug 1st - Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies
Aug 14th - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
Aug 22nd - Charles William Elliot, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92
Aug 22nd - Charles William Eliot, American University president (b. 1834)
Aug 23rd - Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
Sep 5th - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
Sep 9th - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident
Sep 9th - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident
Sep 11th - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
Sep 14th - Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74
Sep 16th - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
Sep 17th - August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70
Sep 21st - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
Sep 25th - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
Oct 6th - Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies
Oct 7th - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
Oct 13th - Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Driftekaren), dies at 61
Oct 20th - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
Oct 22nd - Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies
Oct 25th - Frederick Jr Zech, composer, dies at 68
Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini (Oct 31st) Oct 31st - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weisz], magician, dies in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured
Nov 1st - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor/director (Krates), dies at 72
Nov 1st - Wilfred Flowers, cricketer (England spinner in 8 Tests 1884-93), dies
Nov 3rd - Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
Nov 22nd - Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
Nov 23rd - Frederic Ayers, composer, dies at 50
Nov 26th - John M Brown, US weapons constructer, dies
Dec 1st - Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer, dies at 83
Dec 4th - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
Dec 5th - Claude Monet, French impressionist, dies at 86
Dec 6th - Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86
Dec 8th - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies
Dec 10th - Nikola Pašić, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prime minister (b. 1845)
Dec 12th - Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77
Dec 14th - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64
Impressionist Claude Monet (Dec 5th) Dec 17th - Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70
Dec 25th - Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47