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Events on the year of 1926 in history

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01 Jan 1926 Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne
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04 Jan 1926 Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek Dictator
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05 Jan 1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hour day and $5 daily minimum wage
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06 Jan 1926 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
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12 Jan 1926 Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
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17 Jan 1926 George Burns marries Gracie Allen
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20 Jan 1926 2nd German government of Luther begins
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21 Jan 1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
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22 Jan 1926 Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits
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23 Jan 1926 Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown" premieres in New York City NY
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26 Jan 1926 Television 1st demonstrated (John L Baird, London)
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27 Jan 1926 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
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27 Jan 1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court
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01 Feb 1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
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01 Feb 1926 Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
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04 Feb 1926 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
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06 Feb 1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
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06 Feb 1926 St. Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees
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08 Feb 1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
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08 Feb 1926 Walt Disney Studios forms
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09 Feb 1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
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10 Feb 1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
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11 Feb 1926 Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transfers to New Zealand
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12 Feb 1926 Barendrecht soccer team forms
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15 Feb 1926 Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St, New York City
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15 Feb 1926 Contract air mail service begins in US
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16 Feb 1926 Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France
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17 Feb 1926 Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
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17 Feb 1926 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham UT, 40 die
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25 Feb 1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
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25 Feb 1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
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26 Feb 1926 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
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03 Mar 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida)
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04 Mar 1926 De Geer government in the Netherlands takes office
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06 Mar 1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council
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07 Mar 1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
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09 Mar 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman Mayor of Seattle
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10 Mar 1926 Run on Belgian banks
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11 Mar 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
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12 Mar 1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
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12 Mar 1926 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
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14 Mar 1926 El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded.
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15 Mar 1926 The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
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15 Mar 1926 Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
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16 Mar 1926 History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
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16 Mar 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meter)
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17 Mar 1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
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17 Mar 1926 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in New York NY
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17 Mar 1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
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23 Mar 1926 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games
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23 Mar 1926 NHL Championship: Montr
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24 Mar 1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in the Netherlands
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26 Mar 1926 ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies
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26 Mar 1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
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31 Mar 1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
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01 Apr 1926 Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren
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02 Apr 1926 Riots between Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta
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03 Apr 1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
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03 Apr 1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
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04 Apr 1926 Greek Dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected President
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06 Apr 1926 Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1
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06 Apr 1926 Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
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07 Apr 1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 (San Luis Obispo, California)
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11 Apr 1926 Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
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12 Apr 1926 Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
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13 Apr 1926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
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13 Apr 1926 Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
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16 Apr 1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" and"Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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18 Apr 1926 Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany
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20 Apr 1926 Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
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20 Apr 1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across the Atlantic
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22 Apr 1926 Persia, Turkey and Afghanistan sign treaties of security
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22 Apr 1926 Persia, Turkey & Afgh
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24 Apr 1926 The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
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25 Apr 1926 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot", premieres in Milan
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25 Apr 1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi
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26 Apr 1926 Germany and Russia sign neutrality / peace treaty
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26 Apr 1926 Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943)
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26 Apr 1926 Karachai Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1943)
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27 Apr 1926 In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance
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29 Apr 1926 France & US reach accord on repayment of WWI
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01 May 1926 British coal-miners go on strike
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01 May 1926 Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
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01 May 1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
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02 May 1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
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03 May 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
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03 May 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
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03 May 1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
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04 May 1926 General strike hits Britain
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05 May 1926 Geldrop soccer team forms
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05 May 1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
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08 May 1926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
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08 May 1926 A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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08 May 1926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
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09 May 1926 Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
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09 May 1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
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10 May 1926 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8
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11 May 1926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean
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12 May 1926 Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
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12 May 1926 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
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12 May 1926 The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
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12 May 1926 General Strike: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
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12 May 1926 British general strike ends
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12 May 1926 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
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12 May 1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
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12 May 1926 Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over the North Pole
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13 May 1926 German Government of Luther falls
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15 May 1926 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8
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15 May 1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
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17 May 1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
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17 May 1926 German Government of Marx takes power
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18 May 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
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18 May 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
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19 May 1926 French air force bombs Damascus Syria
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20 May 1926 Belgian Government of Jaspar takes power
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20 May 1926 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
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20 May 1926 Railway Labor Act became law
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20 May 1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
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21 May 1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
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22 May 1926 "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1
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22 May 1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang, China.
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22 May 1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
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23 May 1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
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23 May 1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a homerun off Wrigley Field scoreboard
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23 May 1926 Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate
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24 May 1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 meters (8:25.4)
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25 May 1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
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26 May 1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
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28 May 1926 The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
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28 May 1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
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28 May 1926 US Customs Court created by congress
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31 May 1926 Portuguese President Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
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31 May 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
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01 Jun 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected President of Poland
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05 Jun 1926 Indians triple-play Yankees and win 15-3
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06 Jun 1926 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
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07 Jun 1926 Swedish government of Ekman forms
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10 Jun 1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
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12 Jun 1926 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
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12 Jun 1926 Brazil leaves League of Nations
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14 Jun 1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
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14 Jun 1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations
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15 Jun 1926 7th French government of Briand falls
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18 Jun 1926 Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
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20 Jun 1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
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22 Jun 1926 Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
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23 Jun 1926 8th government of Briand van France forms
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23 Jun 1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
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25 Jun 1926 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham
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28 Jun 1926 Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
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29 Jun 1926 Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
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29 Jun 1926 Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
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01 Jul 1926 Canada restores gold standard
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02 Jul 1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
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04 Jul 1926 Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
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04 Jul 1926 NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
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04 Jul 1926 Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
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09 Jul 1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary Supreme Commander
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09 Jul 1926 Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
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10 Jul 1926 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto Country Club - Ohio
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10 Jul 1926 Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
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12 Jul 1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
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12 Jul 1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
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13 Jul 1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
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15 Jul 1926 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
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16 Jul 1926 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
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16 Jul 1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
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17 Jul 1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
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19 Jul 1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
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22 Jul 1926 105
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22 Jul 1926 108
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22 Jul 1926 Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning
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23 Jul 1926 Belgian NMBS / SNCFB forms
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23 Jul 1926 Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
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26 Jul 1926 Philippines government asks US to plebiscite for independence
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26 Jul 1926 National Bar Association incorporates
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28 Jul 1926 US and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
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30 Jul 1926 Albanian boundaries deduced
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01 Aug 1926 Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus
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01 Aug 1926 Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
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03 Aug 1926 Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus
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05 Aug 1926 1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, New York
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05 Aug 1926 French and German trade agreement signed
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05 Aug 1926 Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
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06 Aug 1926 Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
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06 Aug 1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
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06 Aug 1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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06 Aug 1926 In New York, New York, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
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10 Aug 1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
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11 Aug 1926 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
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17 Aug 1926 Greek-Serbian / Croatian / Slavs peace treaty signed
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18 Aug 1926 Weather map televised for 1st time
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20 Aug 1926 Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
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21 Aug 1926 White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
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22 Aug 1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
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23 Aug 1926 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
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25 Aug 1926 Pavlos Koundouris becomes President of Greece
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28 Aug 1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
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01 Sep 1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
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01 Sep 1926 Turkey allows civil marriage
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02 Sep 1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
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08 Sep 1926 League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany
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08 Sep 1926 Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
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09 Sep 1926 National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
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09 Sep 1926 Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
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09 Sep 1926 In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.
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10 Sep 1926 Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
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10 Sep 1926 Germany joins League of Nations
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11 Sep 1926 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)
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11 Sep 1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
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11 Sep 1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
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11 Sep 1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
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11 Sep 1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
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14 Sep 1926 Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
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15 Sep 1926 Failed attempt on Mussolini
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16 Sep 1926 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
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16 Sep 1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat Phillies 23-3
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17 Sep 1926 Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
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18 Sep 1926 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
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18 Sep 1926 Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open
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18 Sep 1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
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19 Sep 1926 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
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22 Sep 1926 Belgian crown Prince Leopold and Swedish Princess Astrid get engaged
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23 Sep 1926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
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24 Sep 1926 Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
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25 Sep 1926 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club - Westbury, New York
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25 Sep 1926 Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms
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25 Sep 1926 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
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25 Sep 1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
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25 Sep 1926 The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
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25 Sep 1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
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25 Sep 1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
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25 Sep 1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
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26 Sep 1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
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28 Sep 1926 Russia and Latvia treaty of neutrality signed
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29 Sep 1926 Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
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30 Sep 1926 German / French / Belgian / Luxembourg steel cartel closes
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02 Oct 1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
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03 Oct 1926 1st Congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
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03 Oct 1926 Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)
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04 Oct 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
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06 Oct 1926 Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
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07 Oct 1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
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07 Oct 1926 Italian Great Fascist Council forms
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09 Oct 1926 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
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09 Oct 1926 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
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10 Oct 1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
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14 Oct 1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
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14 Oct 1926 The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
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15 Oct 1926 Austria government of Seipel, forms
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16 Oct 1926 Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
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16 Oct 1926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
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18 Oct 1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament
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19 Oct 1926 John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
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19 Oct 1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky and followers
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20 Oct 1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
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22 Oct 1926 J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
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24 Oct 1926 Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
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25 Oct 1926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and gm of New York Rangers
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26 Oct 1926 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")
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31 Oct 1926 Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures.
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01 Nov 1926 Air Commerce Act passes
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03 Nov 1926 15th party Congress CPSU ends / 5 year plan begins
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03 Nov 1926 Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
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10 Nov 1926 Belgium crown Prince Leopold weds Princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
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10 Nov 1926 Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
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10 Nov 1926 Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
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10 Nov 1926 Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
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11 Nov 1926 Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager
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13 Nov 1926 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java
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15 Nov 1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
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15 Nov 1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
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15 Nov 1926 NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
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16 Nov 1926 New York Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
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17 Nov 1926 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Toronto St Pats 4-1
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18 Nov 1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the persecution of the Church in Mexico
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19 Nov 1926 British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
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22 Nov 1926 Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside Brit Commonwealth
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24 Nov 1926 KVI-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
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27 Nov 1926 Italian and Albania sign peace treaty
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27 Nov 1926 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie
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27 Nov 1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
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27 Nov 1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
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29 Nov 1926 Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
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29 Nov 1926 W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife, " premieres in New York City
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03 Dec 1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr / Red Army work together)
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04 Dec 1926 14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats University of Toronto, 10-7
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07 Dec 1926 Gas refrigerator patented
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09 Dec 1926 USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
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10 Dec 1926 1st radio broadcast in the Springfield IL area (WCBS)
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10 Dec 1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
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11 Dec 1926 Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
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11 Dec 1926 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
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11 Dec 1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs New South Wales
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12 Dec 1926 Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Pianoconcert
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14 Dec 1926 Danish Madsen government, forms
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15 Dec 1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
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16 Dec 1926 Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot, " premieres in Paris
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16 Dec 1926 WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
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16 Dec 1926 Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner
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17 Dec 1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
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17 Dec 1926 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
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17 Dec 1926 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
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17 Dec 1926 Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras
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20 Dec 1926 Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
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20 Dec 1926 Cardinals trade Roger Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring
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20 Dec 1926 Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord" premieres in New York NY
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21 Dec 1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
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23 Dec 1926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
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25 Dec 1926 Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
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25 Dec 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
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26 Dec 1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
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27 Dec 1926 Depot Square in the Bronx renamed Botanical Square
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27 Dec 1926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WWI
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28 Dec 1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
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28 Dec 1926 Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) New South Wales vs Victoria
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28 Dec 1926 Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against New South Wales
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28 Dec 1926 Victoria all out for 1107 against New South Wales at the MCG Crowd 22,348
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29 Dec 1926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
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29 Dec 1926 Victoria (1107) beat New South Wales (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
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30 Dec 1926 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)
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30 Dec 1926 Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom" premieres in New York NY
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