Events Date 1926 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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40-Hour Work Week

Sep 25 Henry Ford announces an 8 hour, 5-day work week for workers at the Ford Motor Company

Sep 25 International slavery convention signed by 20 states

Mackenzie King Re-elected

Sep 25 Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada

10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King

Sep 25 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
Sep 25 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant

And So to Bed

Sep 26 JB Fagan's stage drama "And So to Bed", based on the life of Samuel Pepys, premieres in London

Sep 26 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
Sep 28 Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed
Sep 30 German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes

Wiley Post's Fortunate Misfortune

Oct 1 Oil field accident costs aviator Wiley Post his left eye, uses the settlement money to buy his 1st aircraft

Oct 2 Bert Gibb kicks 9 singles as Hamilton Tigers beat Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers 12-10 in Montreal in Canadian Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union opening round
Oct 3 1st congress of Pan European Movement (Pan-Europese Beweging) opens in Vienna
Oct 3 English long distance runner Violet Piercy sets first recognised female marathon record in 3:40:22 on the Polytechnic Marathon course between Windsor and London
Oct 4 Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower
Oct 7 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
Oct 7 Italian Great Fascist Council forms

Colonial Institute

Oct 9 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution

Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Oct 9 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms

Winnie the Pooh

Oct 14 A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released

Walter Johnson Retires

Oct 14 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark

Oct 15 Austria government of Seipel, forms
Oct 15 Philip Barry's play "White Wings!" premieres in NYC
Oct 16 Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
Oct 16 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

Lenin's Political Testament

Oct 18 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament

Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader Vladimir Lenin

Oct 19 John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle

Expulsion of Trotsky

Oct 19 Russian Politburo throws out Leon Trotsky and his followers

Oct 20 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600

The Punch that Killed Harry Houdini

Oct 22 Boxer J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in his dressing room at the Princess Theater in Montreal. The attack started or helped cause the appendicitis that would take Houdini's life 9 days later.

Magician and Escape Artist Harry Houdini

Oct 24 Harry Houdini's last performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan
Oct 25 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers
Oct 26 Arthur Goodrich's play "Caponsacchi" premieres in NYC
Oct 26 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")

Assassination Attempt on Mussolini

Oct 31 Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot

Nov 1 US Air Commerce Act passes

Ty Cobb Resigns as Manager

Nov 3 Legendary baseball figure Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager; replaced by George Moriarty, first man to hold MLB's 4 principal jobs: player, umpire, scout and manager

Oh Kay

Nov 8 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and P. G. Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Kay" opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 256 performances

Communist Leader Arrested

Nov 9 Italian Communist leader Antonio Gramsci is arrested in Rome

Marxist Theorist and Politician Antonio Gramsci

Nov 10 Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)

1st Canadian Minister to the US

Nov 10 Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA

Governor General of Canada Vincent Massey

Eddie Collins Released

Nov 11 Future Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins is released as Chicago White Sox player/manager; replaced by another future HOF'er catcher Ray Schalk

Nov 11 U.S. Route 66 is established from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California 2,448 miles (3,940 km)
Nov 12 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
Nov 13 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam, West Java
Nov 15 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
Nov 15 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
Nov 16 New York Rangers ice hockey club first game; beat Montreal Maroons, 1-0 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
Nov 17 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1

George Bernard Shaw

Nov 18 George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the prize money, saying "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize"

Chemist, Engineer and Innovator Alfred Nobel

On persecution of Church in Mexico

Nov 18 Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico

Nov 19 British miners' strike ends after 28 weeks
Nov 19 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union
Nov 22 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth

This Was a Man

Nov 23 Noël Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC

Playwright, Director and Singer Noël Coward

Nov 24 KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
Nov 24 Sri Aurobindo retires to lead life of seclusion, hands responsibility for followers to Mirra Alfassa (founding of Sri Aurobindo ashram)
Nov 27 110,000 watch US Army & Navy play a 21-all tie

Miraculous Mandarin

Nov 27 Béla Bartók's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres at the Cologne Opera, Germany, conducted by Eugen Szenkar

Nov 27 Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
Nov 27 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
Nov 27 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins

Tris Speaker

Nov 29 Tris Speaker resigns as manager of the Cleveland Indians while facing game-fixing allegations

Nov 29 W. Somerset Maughams comedic play "The Constant Wife" premieres in NYC

Agatha Christie Disappears

Dec 3 Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days

Dec 3 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
Dec 7 Gas refrigerator patented
Dec 9 USGA legalizes steel shaft golf clubs
Dec 10 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)

Mein Kampf

Dec 10 2nd part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published

Dec 14 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal head of the Liberal Party forms a government in Denmark
Dec 15 Fascist national symbol elevated in Italy

Le Pauvre Matelot

Dec 16 Darius Milhaud's opera "Le Pauvre Matelot" premieres in Paris

Landis MLB Contract Renewed

Dec 16 MLB owners renew contract with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis for a second 7-years term

1st MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Dec 16 WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
Dec 17 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the ‎1926 coup d'état‎ is successful
Dec 17 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
Dec 17 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
Dec 17 Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
Dec 20 Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord" premieres in NYC

Cardinals Trade Hornsby

Dec 20 St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby to NY Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring; concerns over Hornsby's gambling

MLB Hall of Fame 2nd Baseman and Manager Rogers Hornsby

Dec 23 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions

Prince Hirohito Assumes Throne

Dec 25 Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan assumes the throne upon his father, Emperor Yoshihito's, death

Dec 27 Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square
Dec 27 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I
Dec 28 Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
Dec 28 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
Dec 28 Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW
Dec 28 Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348
Dec 29 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
Dec 29 Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
Dec 30 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
Dec 30 Paul Eliot Green's "In Abraham's Bosom" premieres in NYC

Historical Events in 1926 (Part 2)