1926 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 - 1926 - 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931

Events

January 8 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud[?] becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia
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 for extra money during the Depression. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy.
January 26 - John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.
March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
April 25 - Reza Kahn is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi[?]."
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 12 - 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.
June 29 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
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 25 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
December 25 - In Japanese History, end of the Taisho period and beginning of the Showa Era[?] and the period of Japanese expansionism

the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA

Art, Culture & Fashion

Births

January 3 - George Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records, later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
January 5 - Maria Schell[?], actress
January 8 - Soupy Sales[?], comedian
January 12 - Ray Price[?], country music singer
January 14 - Tom Tryon[?], actor, novelist (+ 1991)
January 14 - Maria Schell[?], Swiss actress
January 17 - Moira Shearer[?], actress, dancer
January 19 - Fritz Weaver[?], actor
January 20 - David Tudor, pianist and composer
January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
January 21 - Steve Reeves[?], actor (+ 2000)
January 26 - Ralph Brance[?], baseball star
February 2 - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, politican
February 6 - Haskell Wexler[?], cinematographer
February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
February 11 - Paul Bocuse[?], French chef
February 11 - Alexander Gibson[?], British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera[?]
February 15 - Dieter Lattmann[?], writer and politician
February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
February 20 - Rob Richards[?], track and field athlete
February 22 - Kenneth Williams, actor (+ 1988)
March 1 - Pete Rozelle[?], commissioner of the National Football League (+ 1996)
March 3 - James Merrill[?], Pulitzer Prize winning poet (+ 1995)
March 6 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin[?], American football star
March 16 - Jerry Lewis, comedian
March 17 - Siegfried Lenz[?], writer
March 18 - Peter Graves[?], actor
March 24 - Dario Fo, author, 1997 Nobel prize for literature[?]
April 1 - Anne McCaffrey, science fiction author
April 3 - Gus Grissom, astronaut (+ 1967)
April 6 - Gil Kane[?], cartoonist (+ 2000)
April 6 - Ian Paisley, United Kingdom politician
April 6 - Sergio Franchi[?], singer, actor (+ 1990)
April 9 - Hugh Hefner - creator of Playboy, men's magazine.
April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
April 22 - James Stirling, architect (+ 1992)
May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
May 15 - Peter Shaffer, playwright
May 19 - Peter Zadek[?], film and theatre director
May 25 - Max von der Grün[?], author
May 26 - Miles Davis, musician
June 1 - Andy Griffith
June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet
June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
September 23 - John Coltrane, musician
October 18 - Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll musician
Murray Rothbard , American economist

Deaths

March 20 - Princess Louise of Sweden[?]
May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman sultan.
May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter
July 4 - Frassati Piergiorgio[?], Member of FUCI
June 14 - Mary Cassatt, artist
July 12 - Gertrude Bell[?], archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
August 23 - Rodolfo Valentino, italian actor
October 31 - Harry Houdini, magician
December 5 - Claude Monet, painter
Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect

Nobel Prizes