Editing 1926 (section)

==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1926}}
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Theodoros Pangalos]] declares himself dictator in Greece.<ref>{{cite book |last = Shrader |first = Charles |title = The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945-1949 |publisher = Praeger |location = Westport, Connecticut |year = 1999 |isbn = 9780275965440 |page = 68 }}</ref>
* [[January 8]] 
**[[Ibn Saud]] is crowned ruler of the [[Kingdom of Hejaz]].<ref>{{cite book |author = Prescott Holden Thorp |title = The Commemorative Stamps of the World |publisher = Scott Stamp and Coin Company |year = 1934 |page = 303 }}</ref>
** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as [[Bảo Đại]], the last monarch of the [[Nguyễn dynasty]] of the Kingdom of Vietnam.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; A [[British Broadcasting Company]] [[radio play]] by [[Ronald Knox]] about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic |title = The BBC Radio Panic, 1926 |website = [[Museum of Hoaxes]] |access-date = January 3, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150103085814/http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic |archive-date = January 3, 2015 |url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The Belgian Parliament accepts the [[Locarno Treaties]].
* [[January 26]] &ndash; Scottish inventor [[John Logie Baird]] demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the [[Royal Institution]] and a reporter from ''[[The Times]]''.
* [[January 31]] &ndash; British and Belgian troops leave [[Cologne]].

===February===
{{Main|February 1926}}
* [[February 1]] &ndash; Land on [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] and [[Wall Street]] in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years.
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The Irish minister for Justice, [[Kevin O'Higgins]], appoints the [[Committee on Evil Literature]].
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The [[Berlin International Green Week]] debuts in Germany.
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Francisco Franco]] becomes General in Spain.

===March===
{{Main|March 1926}}
[[File:Goddard and Rocket.jpg|thumb|130px|[[March 16]]: [[Robert H. Goddard|Goddard]] with rocket in 1926.]]
* [[March 6]] 
** The [[Shakespeare Memorial Theatre]] in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] (England) is destroyed by fire.
** The first commercial air route from the United Kingdom to [[South Africa]] is established by [[Alan Cobham]].
* [[March 14]] &ndash; The [[El Virilla train accident]] occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 people and injuring 93.<ref>{{cite book | last = Armistead | first = Samuel | title = Oral tradition and Hispanic literature : essays in honor of Samuel G. Armistead | publisher = Garland Pub | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780815320623 | page=315}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Robert H. Goddard]] launches the first [[liquid-fuel rocket]], at [[Auburn, Massachusetts]].
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Éamon de Valera]] organises the political party [[Fianna Fáil]] in Ireland.

===April===
{{Main|April 1926}}
* [[April 4]] &ndash; Greek dictator [[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]] wins the [[1926 Greek presidential election|presidential election]], with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion.<ref>{{cite news |date = April 5, 1926 |title = Pangalos Named Greek President in Poll Farce |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 16 }}</ref>
* [[April 6]] &ndash; Aarón Joaquín has a [[Vision (spirituality)|vision]] in the [[Nuevo León]] state of Mexico, origin of [[La Luz del Mundo]], a [[Nontrinitarianism|nontrinitarian]] [[Charismatic movement|charismatic]] [[Restorationism|restorationist]] Christian church.<ref>{{cite book|last=De la Torre|first=Renee|title=Los hijos de la luz: discurso, identidad y poder en La Luz del Mundo|year=2000|publisher=ITESO|isbn=968-5087-15-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzxw5UPpPNoC&q=hermosa+provincia+luz+del+mundo|access-date=2013-10-08|language=es|page=73}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] &ndash; An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader [[Benito Mussolini]] fails.<ref>{{cite book | last = Radzinowicz | first = Leon | title = Adventures in criminology | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781134639359 | page=21}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Zhang Zuolin]]'s army captures [[Beijing]].<ref>{{cite news |last = Dailey |first = Charles |date = April 18, 1926 |title = Chang's Son, at Head of Troops, Invades Peking |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 13 }}</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Berlin (1926)|Treaty of Berlin]]: 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.
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Reza Khan]] is crowned [[Shah of Iran]], under the name "Pahlevi".
* [[April 30]] &ndash; A [[state of emergency]] is proclaimed in the United Kingdom under the [[Emergency Powers Act 1920]] on account of the "threat of cessation of work in Coal Mines".<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1926/may/03/emergency-powers-act-royal-proclamation#column_35 Hansard, House of Commons, 5th Series, vol. 195, col. 35 (3 May 1926).]</ref>

===May===
{{Main|May 1926}}
* [[May 4]] &ndash; The [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|United Kingdom general strike]] begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.
* [[May 9]]
** The French navy bombards [[Damascus]], because of [[Druze]] riots.
** Explorer [[Richard E. Byrd]] and co-pilot [[Floyd Bennett]] claim to be the first to fly over the [[North Pole]] in the ''Josephine Ford'' monoplane, taking off from [[Spitsbergen]], Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.livescience.com/28727-byrd-didn-t-fly-over-north-pole.html |title = Did Admiral Byrd Fly Over The North Pole Or Not? |last = Thompson |first = Andrea |date = April 15, 2013 |website = [[LiveScience]] |publisher = [[Purch]] |access-date = January 3, 2015 }}</ref> An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in [[1996]], suggests that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/byrd-flies-over-the-north-pole |title = May 9, 1926: Byrd flies over the North Pole? |website = This Day in History |date = February 9, 2010 |publisher = A&E Television Networks |access-date = January 3, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141129023602/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/byrd-flies-over-the-north-pole |archive-date = November 29, 2014 |url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; Planes piloted by Major [[Harold Geiger]] and [[Horace Meek Hickam]], students at the United States [[Air Corps Tactical School]], collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.
* [[May 12]]
** [[Roald Amundsen]] and his crew fly over the [[North Pole]], in the [[Norge (airship)|airship ''Norge'']].
** The [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|United Kingdom general strike]] is called off by the [[trade union]]s, although miners remain on strike.
* [[May 12]]&ndash;[[May 14|14]] &ndash; [[May Coup (Poland)|May Coup]]: [[Józef Piłsudski]] takes over in Poland.
* [[May 18]] &ndash; Evangelist [[Aimee Semple McPherson]] disappears, while visiting a [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice, California]] beach.
* [[May 20]] &ndash; The [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Air Commerce Act]], licensing pilots and planes.
* [[May 23]] &ndash; The first [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] constitution is established.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; The [[Rif War]] ends, when [[Rifian people|Rif]] rebels surrender in [[Morocco]].
* [[May 28]] &ndash; The [[28 May 1926 coup d'état|1926 coup d'état]], commanded by [[Manuel Gomes da Costa]] in Portugal, installs the [[Ditadura Nacional]] (National Dictatorship), followed by [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]].

===June===
{{Main|June 1926}}
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Ignacy Mościcki]] becomes [[president of Poland]].
* [[June 7]] &ndash; Liberal politician [[Carl Gustaf Ekman]] succeeds [[Rickard Sandler]] as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]].
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[LRT Radijas|Lithuanian Radio]] launches its service from [[Kauno radiofonas]].
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Arthur Meighen]] briefly returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]] during the [[King-Byng Affair]].

===July===
{{Main|July 1926}}
* [[July 1]] &ndash; The [[Kuomintang]] begins the [[Northern Expedition]], a military unification campaign in northern China.
* [[July 3]] &ndash; A [[Caudron C.61]] aircraft, operated by [[Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne]], crashes in Czechoslovakia.
* [[July 9]] &ndash; In Portugal, General [[Óscar Carmona]] takes power in a military coup.
* [[July 10]] &ndash; A bolt of lightning strikes [[Picatinny Arsenal]] in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days.
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Bombay Electric Supply and Transport]] Company in India introduces motor buses.
* [[July 26]] &ndash; The United States [[National Bar Association]] is incorporated.

===August===
{{Main|August 1926}}
* [[August 1]] &ndash; In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of [[1917]] causes the [[Cristero War]] from August 3.
* [[August 2]] &ndash; The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.<ref>{{cite book | last = Pervan | first = Ralph | title = Essays on Western Australian politics | publisher = University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations | location = Nedlands Australia | year = 1979 | isbn = 9780855641498 |page=5}}</ref>
* [[August 5]] &ndash; In New York, the [[Warner Brothers]]' [[Vitaphone]] system is seen by audiences for the first time, in the movie ''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]'', starring [[John Barrymore]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Coe | first = Brian | title = The history of movie photography | publisher = Ash & Grant | location = London | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780904069389 | page=100}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] &ndash; American [[Gertrude Ederle]] becomes the first woman to swim the [[English Channel]], from France to England.<ref>{{cite news |first= Richard|last= Severo |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/sports/gertrude-ederle-the-first-woman-to-swim-across-the-english-channel-dies-at-98.html |title=Gertrude Ederle, the First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel, Dies at 98 |work=[[New York Times]] |date=December 1, 2003 |access-date=August 11, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[August 18]] &ndash; In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the [[Weather Bureau]] office in Washington, D.C.
* [[August 22]] &ndash; In Greece, [[Georgios Kondylis]] ousts [[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]].
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Pavlos Kountouriotis]] announces that [[dictatorship]] has ended in Greece, and he is now the president.

===September===
{{Main|September 1926}}
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Lebanon]] under the [[French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|French Mandate]] gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with [[Charles Debbas]] as its president.<ref>{{cite book | last = Volk | first = Lucia | title = Memorials and martyrs in modern Lebanon | publisher = Indiana University Press | location = Bloomington | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780253004925 | page=55}}</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; The German [[Weimar Republic]] joins the [[League of Nations]].
* [[September 11]] &ndash; In Rome, Italy, [[Gino Lucetti]] throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt.<ref>{{cite book | last = Grand | first = Alexander | title = Italian fascism : its origins & development | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | location = Lincoln London | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780803266223 | page=55}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; The [[Locarno Treaties]] of [[1925]] are ratified in [[Geneva]], and come into effect.
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[1926 Miami hurricane|Great Miami Hurricane]]: A strong hurricane devastates [[Miami]], leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100&nbsp;billion in the modern day).
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[San Siro|Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium]], well known among sports venues in [[Italy]], officially opens in [[Milan]].<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://origin-www.acmilan.com/en/club/sites/san-siro |title = San Siro |date = 2016 |website = AC Milan |access-date = February 24, 2019 |archive-date = February 25, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190225102948/http://origin-www.acmilan.com/en/club/sites/san-siro |url-status = dead }}</ref>
* [[September 20]] &ndash; The [[North Side Gang]] attempts to assassinate [[Al Capone]], at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in [[Cicero, Illinois]] with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm.<ref>{{cite book |last = Mercer |first = Derrik |date = 1989 |title = Chronicle of the 20th Century |location = London, UK |publisher = Chronicle Communications Ltd. |page = 346 |isbn = 978-0-582-03919-3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Russo |first = Gus |date = 2001 |title = The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America |location = New York |publisher = Bloomsbury |page = 35 |isbn = 978-1-59691-897-9 }}</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; French war ace [[René Fonck]] and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the [[Orteig Prize]]. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified [[Sikorsky S-35]] crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed.
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Gene Tunney]] defeats [[Jack Dempsey]] to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
* [[September 25]]
** The [[League of Nations]] [[1926 Slavery Convention|Slavery Convention]] abolishes all types of [[slavery]].
** [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]], after winning the [[1926 Canadian federal election|Canadian federal election]].
** [[Henry Ford]] announced the 8-hour, 5-day work week.

===October===
{{Main|October 1926}}
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Józef Piłsudski]] becomes prime minister of Poland.
* [[October 12]] &ndash; British miners agree to end their strike.
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[A. A. Milne]]'s children's book ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.
* [[October 16]] &ndash; An ammunition explosion on troopship ''Kuang Yuang'' near [[Jiujiang]], China, kills 1,200.<ref>{{cite news |date = 17 October 1926 |title = 1,200 Killed as Shells Explode on Burning Ship |work = [[Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 20 }}</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; The [[1926 Imperial Conference]] opens in London.
* [[October 20]] &ndash; A [[1926 Havana–Bermuda hurricane|hurricane]] kills 650 in [[Cuba]].
* [[October 23]]
** [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Lev Kamenev]] are removed from the [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].
** A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office.
** The [[Fazal Mosque]], the first purpose-built in London and the first [[Ahmadiyya]] [[mosque]] in Britain, is completed.
* [[October 31]] &ndash; Magician [[Harry Houdini]] dies of [[gangrene]] and [[peritonitis]] that has developed after his [[vermiform appendix|appendix]] ruptured.

===November===
{{Main|November 1926}}
* [[November 10]] &ndash; In [[San Francisco]], a necrophiliac [[serial killer]] named [[Earle Nelson]] (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a [[boarding house]] landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
* [[November 11]] &ndash; The [[United States Numbered Highways|United States Numbered Highway System]], including [[U.S. Route 66]], is established.
* [[November 15]]
** The ''[[NBC]]'' Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]], [[General Electric]] and [[RCA]]).
** The [[Balfour Declaration of 1926|Balfour Declaration]] is approved by the [[1926 Imperial Conference]], making the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] dominions equal and independent.
* [[November 24]]
** The village of Rocquebillier, in the [[French Riviera]], is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.
** [[Sri Aurobindo]] retires, leaving "[[Mirra Alfassa|The Mother]]" to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in [[Puducherry (city)|Puducherry]], India.
* [[November 25]] &ndash; The [[death penalty]] is re-established in Italy.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; All [[Italian Communist Party|Italian Communist]] [[Italian Chamber of Deputies|deputies]] are arrested.
* [[November 27]] &ndash; The restoration of [[Colonial Williamsburg]] begins in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]], United States.

===December===
{{Main|December 1926}}
[[File:Emperor Showa.jpg|thumbnail|180px|right|[[December 25]]: Emperor [[Hirohito]]]]
* [[December 2]] &ndash; British prime minister [[Stanley Baldwin]] ends the [[state of emergency]] that had been declared due to the miners' strike.
* [[December 3]] &ndash; English detective story writer [[Agatha Christie]] disappears from her home in Surrey; on [[December 14]] she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a [[Harrogate]] hotel.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the [[Campaign to Protect Rural England]] (CPRE), is founded by [[Patrick Abercrombie]] to limit [[urban sprawl]] and ribbon development.
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Miina Sillanpää]] becomes [[Finland]]'s first female government minister.
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[1926 Lithuanian coup d'état]]: A democratically elected government is overthrown in [[Lithuania]]; [[Antanas Smetona]] assumes power.
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Turkey]] converts to the [[Gregorian calendar]], making the next day [[January 1]], [[1927]].
* [[December 23]] &ndash; Nicaraguan President [[Adolfo Díaz]] requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing [[Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27)|civil war]]. American peacekeeping troops immediately set up neutral zones in [[Puerto Cabezas]] and at the mouth of the [[Rio Grande]] to protect American and foreign lives and property.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/western-hemisphere-region/nicaragua-1909-present |title = Nicaragua (1909-present) |website = [[University of Central Arkansas]] |access-date = January 3, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="tribune Dec. 24, 1926">{{cite news |date = December 24, 1926 |title = U.S. Troops Take 2 Nicaraguan Ports |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 1 }}</ref>
* [[December 26]]
** In the [[history of Japan]], the [[Shōwa period]] begins from this day, due to the death of [[Emperor Taishō]] on the day before. His son [[Hirohito]] will reign as [[Emperor of Japan]] until [[1989]].<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōwa". {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 888|page=888}}.</ref>
** World première of Finnish composer [[Jean Sibelius]]'s [[tone poem]] ''[[Tapiola (Sibelius)|Tapiola]]'' by [[Walter Damrosch]] and the [[New York Philharmonic]], the last substantial composition to be made public by the composer for the remaining 30 years of his life.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Sibelius' Works of the 1920s|url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm|accessdate=2009-04-18|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815004023/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Date unknown===
* [[Muthulakshmi Reddi]] becomes the first woman to be appointed to a legislature in India, the [[Madras Legislative Council]].
* [[Stephen Herbert Langdon|Stephen H. Langdon]] begins excavations in [[Jemdet Nasr]], finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 [[BCE]]).
* [[Phencyclidine]] ''(PCP, angel dust)'' is first synthesized.
* [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and marks rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at [[Stirling, Alberta]], Canada.
* The [[International African Institute]] is founded in London.
* [[Output (economics)|Industrial output]] surpasses the level of [[1913]] in the [[USSR]] after a period of economic downturn.{{Clarify|date=December 2012}} <ref>{{Cite book |last=Dyker |first=David |title=Restructuring the Soviet economy |publisher=Routledge |year=1992 |isbn=0415056799 |location=London ; New York |pages=2–3 |language=EN}}</ref>