1926

Years: 1923 1924 1925 - 1926 - 1927 1928 1929
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1926 in aviation 1926 in film 1926 in literature 1926 in music 1926 in science 1926 in sports 1926 state leaders 1926 in Canada

Events

January 1 - Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting.
January 8 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the 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 for extra money during the Depression. 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 31 - British and Belgian troops leave Cologne
February 9 - Flooding on London suburbs
March 6 - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire
March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
April 7 - Failed assassination attempt against Mussolini
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 Jose, Costa Rica - 178 dead
April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
April 25 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."

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
May 9 - French navy bombards Damascus because of Druze riots
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 10 - Talks between government and strikers begins in UK
May 12 - March 15 - Military coup by Jozef Pilsudski succeeds in Poland
May 12 - UK general strike called off
May 12 - Roald Amundsen flies over north pole
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.
May 26 - Rifkabyl rebels surrender in Morocco
May 28 - Military coup by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
June 29 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
June 1 - Ignaz Moscicki becomes president of Poland?
July 1 - Kuomingtang begins a campaign in the northern China for unification
July 9 - New military coup in Portugal, now by general Antonio Carmona
July 12 - Lighting strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey
July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

August 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
August 6 - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England
August 6 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim the English Channel.
August 6 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
August 18 - British miner's union begins negotiations with the government
August 18 - 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 Konfylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos
August 25 - Pavlos Konduriotis announces that dictatorship is finished in Greece and becomes a president
September 11 - Spain leaves the League of Nations
September 11 - Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i
September 25 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
October 2 - Jozef Pilsudski 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 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
November 25 - Death penalty re-established in Italy
November 27 - Vesuvius erupts
November 27 - 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 25 - In Japanese History, end of the Taisho period and beginning of the Showa Era and the period of Japanese expansionism