Historical Events in 1926

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• Jan 1 Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne
• Jan 2 Melody Maker, British popular music magazine, publishes 1st issue
• Jan 3 Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator

• Jan 4 Theodoros Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
• Jan 6 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland

• Jan 20 2nd German government of Luther begins
• Jan 21 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
• Jan 22 Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits

• Jan 27 US Senate agrees to join World Court
• Feb 1 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
• Feb 1 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
• Feb 2 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
• Feb 4 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
• Feb 6 MLB St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees for cash and pitcher George Mogridge
• Feb 6 NFL rules college students are ineligible until they complete their college careers

• Feb 8 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
• Feb 8 Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
• Feb 9 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
• Feb 10 Building of Olympic Stadium Amsterdam, begins
• Feb 11 UK transfers administration of Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific to New Zealand
• Feb 12 Barendrecht soccer team forms
• Feb 15 Brooks Atkinson Theatre opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
• Feb 15 Contract air mail service begins in US

• Feb 17 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah; 40 die
• Feb 20 Montreal and Ottawa battle out just the second 0-0 tie in NHL history; dominant goalies are Clint Benedict (Maroons) and Alex Connell (Senators)

• Feb 25 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords
• Feb 26 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
• Mar 3 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
• Mar 4 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
• Mar 6 China asks for a seat on the Security council
• Mar 7 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
• Mar 9 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle and 1st female mayor of any major US city
• Mar 10 Run on Belgian banks
• Mar 11 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Féin
• Mar 12 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
• Mar 12 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
• Mar 14 Train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93
• Mar 15 Belgium's "black monday", franc falls

• Mar 17 Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
• Mar 17 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
• Mar 24 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
• Mar 26 ACD de Graeff appointed governor general of Dutch East Indies
• Mar 26 First lip-reading tournament held in America
• Mar 31 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
• Apr 1 Montreal Maroons' Clint Benedict becomes first NHL goalie to record 3 straight playoff shutouts, in a 3-0 win against the visiting Victoria Cougars in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Championship series
• Apr 2 Riots between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
• Apr 3 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
• Apr 3 Second flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
• Apr 4 Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos elected president
• Apr 6 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 2-0 for a 3-1 series victory
• Apr 7 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)

• Apr 11 Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent

• Apr 12 Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms

• Apr 13 Cyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
• Apr 15 Sesquicentennial Stadium opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; renamed Philadelphia Municipal Stadium, later renamed JFK Stadium (demolished 1992); played host to Tunney-Demspy fight (1926); 41 Army-Navy football games; professional football; and many concerts, including the US portion of Live-Aid (1985)
• Apr 16 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Apr 18 Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf, Germany
• Apr 20 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
• Apr 22 Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security

• Apr 25 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi
• Apr 26 Germany & Russia sign neutrality peace treaty
• Apr 26 Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943)

• Apr 29 France and US reach accord on repayment of WW I

• May 1 British coal miners go on strike
• May 2 US military intervenes in Nicaragua

• May 3 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
• May 3 US Marines land in Nicaragua (9 months after leaving), stay until 1933
• May 5 Sinclair Lewis refuses the Pulitzer Prize for a Novel for "Arrowsmith"
• May 8 A. Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• May 8 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park, home of Boston Red Sox baseball team

• May 11 Airship Norge leaves Ny-Ålesund, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean

• May 12 British General Strike ends after 9 days, coal mine workers stay on strike

• May 12 Hans Luther voluntarily resigns as Chancellor of Germany following a Reichstag censure.

• May 17 Wilhelm Marx succeeds Hans Luther as Chancellor of Germany
• May 18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes in Venice, California She shows up a month later saying she's been kidnapped
• May 19 French air force bombs Damascus, Syria
• May 20 Belgian government of Jaspar takes power
• May 20 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
• May 20 Railway Labor Act became law in USA

• May 21 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
• May 22 "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1
• May 22 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China

• May 23 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate

• May 25 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic
• May 26 Lebanon adopts constitution
• May 28 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
• May 28 US Customs Court created by congress
• May 31 Kruger National Park is established as South Africa's first national park
• May 31 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
• May 31 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
• Jun 1 Ignacy Mocicki elected President of Poland
• Jun 4 Ignacy Mościcki becomes President of Poland (holds office till 1939)
• Jun 5 Clevelands Indians baseball team triple-play NY Yankees & win 15-3
• Jun 6 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
• Jun 7 Swedish government of Ekman forms
• Jun 10 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
• Jun 12 Brazil leaves League of Nations

• Jun 18 Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
• Jun 19 DeFord Bailey is 1st African American to perform on Nashville's "Grand Ole Opry"
• Jun 20 Mordecai W. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
• Jun 22 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
• Jun 23 8th French government of Aristide Briand forms
• Jun 23 The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA
• Jun 28 Mercedes-Benz forms when the world's oldest automobile manufacturers DMG and Benz & Cie merge

• Jun 29 Carter G. Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research into Black history

• Jul 1 Canada restores gold standard
• Jul 2 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguished Flying Cross authorized, to award "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight"
• Jul 4 NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
• Jul 9 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander in China
• Jul 9 Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
• Jul 10 Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
• Jul 12 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
• Jul 12 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
• Jul 13 Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi sets world record 3000m (8:20.4) in Stockholm, Sweden
• Jul 15 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
• Jul 16 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
• Jul 16 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
• Jul 17 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
• Jul 18 The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
• Jul 19 2nd French government of Édouard Herriot, forms
• Jul 20 A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
• Jul 22 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)
• Jul 22 108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record)
• Jul 22 Cincinnati Reds right fielder Curt Walker ties National League record of 2 triples in an inning in a 13-1 rout of the Boston Braves

• Jul 23 National Railway Company of Belgium forms (NMBS/SNCFB)
• Jul 26 National Bar Association incorporates
• Jul 26 Philippines government asks USA for a plebiscite on independence
• Jul 28 US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
• Jul 30 Albanian boundaries deduced
• Aug 1 Battles between Druze & French in Damascus
• Aug 1 Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
• Aug 3 Traffic lights installed at Piccadilly Circus, London
• Aug 5 French & German trade agreement signed

• Aug 6 American Gertrude Ederle (20) becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel in 14 hours, 39 minutes, a record for male or female
• Aug 10 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed

• Aug 13 Enrique Tirabocchi of Argentina becomes the first to swim the English Channel from France to England (record 16 hours 33 minutes)
• Aug 17 Greek-Serbian, Croatian and Slavs peace treaty signed
• Aug 18 Weather map televised for 1st time
• Aug 20 Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established.
• Aug 21 -22] Uprising against Greek president and dictator Pangalos
• Aug 21 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ted Lyons no hits Boston Red Sox, 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway Park
• Aug 22 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Aug 22 Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
• Aug 25 Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
• Aug 27 2nd Women's World Games (track & field competition for women) is conducted over 3-days at the Slottsskogsvallen Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden
• Aug 28 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)

• Sep 1 Turkey allows civil marriage
• Sep 2 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
• Sep 8 League of Nations Assembly votex unanimously to admit Germany
• Sep 9 National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America
• Sep 9 Train disaster at Wassenaar, Netherlands, 4 die
• Sep 10 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
• Sep 10 Germany joins League of Nations
• Sep 11 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
• Sep 11 Spain leaves the League of Nations due to Germany joining
• Sep 11 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
• Sep 16 -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
• Sep 16 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
• Sep 16 Philip Dunning & George Abbott's play "Broadway" premieres in NYC
• Sep 16 St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
• Sep 17 Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
• Sep 18 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
• Sep 19 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
• Sep 19 The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.

• Sep 22 Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish Princess Astrid get engaged

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

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