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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 26 - John
Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.
- March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
- 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 25 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."
- 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 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.
- June 29 - Arthur
Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of
Canada.
- July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents
of the Movietone sound system for
recording sound onto film.
- 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 - A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA
Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
- September 25 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 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 27 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
- December 25 - In Japanese History, end of the Taisho period and
beginning of the Showa Era and the
period of Japanese expansionism
Year in topic
Births
- January 3 - George
Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records, later inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- January 5 - Maria
Schell, actress
- January 8 - Soupy Sales, comedian
- January 11 - Lev Demin,
cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- January 12 - Ray Price, country music singer
- January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist (d. 1991)
- January 14 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress
- January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer
- January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
- January 20 - David
Tudor, pianist and composer
- January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
- January 21 - Steve Reeves, actor (d. 2000)
- January 26 - Ralph Brance, baseball star
- January 27 - Fritz
Spiegl, journalist (d. 2003)
- February 2 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
- February 6 - Haskell Wexler, cinematographer
- February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
- February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor
- February 11 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
- February 11 - Alexander Gibson, British
conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
- February 12 - Paul
Kurtz, philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist
groups
- February 15 - Dieter Lattmann, writer and
politician
- February 16 - John Schlesinger, film director
- February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
- February 20 - Bob Richards, track and field athlete
- February 22 - Kenneth Williams, actor (d. 1988)
- February 28 - Svetlana Josifovna Stalina later known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet author.
- March 1 - Pete Rozelle,
commissioner of the National Football League (d.
1996)
- March 2 - Murray
Rothbard, American Economist (d. 1995)
- March 3 - James Merrill,
Pulitzer Prize winning poet (d. 1995)
- March 6 - Alan
Greenspan, American economist
- March 6 - Andrzej Wajda,
Polish film director
- March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin, American
football star
- March 16 - Jerry Lewis,
comedian
- March 17 - Siegfried Lenz, writer
- March 18 - Peter Graves, actor
- March 24 - Dario Fo, author,
1997 Nobel
Prize in Literature
- April 1 - Anne
McCaffrey, science fiction author
- April 3 - Gus Grissom,
astronaut (d. 1967)
- April 6 - Gil Kane, cartoonist (d. 2000)
- April 6 - Ian Paisley,
United Kingdom politician
- April 6 - Sergio Franchi,
singer, actor (d. 1990)
- April 9 - Hugh Hefner,
creator of the men's magazine, Playboy
- April 17 - Gerry McNeil,
Stanley Cup-winning NHL goalie (d. 2004)
- April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- April 22 - James Stirling, architect (d. 1992)
- April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime
Minister of Sweden
- April 30 - Cloris
Leachman, actress
- May 5 - Ann B. Davis, actress,
The Brady Bunch
- May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and
actor
- May 15 - Peter Shaffer,
playwright
- May 19 - Peter Zadek, film and theatre director
- May 25 - Max von der Grün, author
- May 26 - Miles Davis, musician
(d. 1991)
- June 1 - Andy Griffith
- June 1 - Marilyn Monroe,
actress
- June 3 - Allen Ginsberg,
US poet
- June 25 - Ingeborg
Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (d. 1973)
- June 28 - Mel Brooks,
entertainer
- August 14 - "Goscinny" (René
Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
- September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
- September 23 - John
Coltrane, musician
- October 15 - Michel
Foucault, philosopher
- October 18 - Chuck
Berry, Rock and Roll musician
- December 20 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician
- December 21 - Joe
Paterno, American football coach
- December 23 - Robert
Bly, American poet
Deaths
- March 5 - Clément Ader,
French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
- March 20 - Princess Louise of
Sweden
- April 30 – Bessie
Coleman, first licensed African-American female pilot
- May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman sultan
- May 26 - Simon Petlyura,
Ukrainian independence fighter.
- June 10 - Antoni Gaudí,
Catalan architect.
- June 14 - Mary Cassatt,
artist
- July 4 - Frassati Piergiorgio, Member of FUCI.
- July 12 - Gertrude Bell,
archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
- July 26 - Robert
Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman
- August 23 - Rodolfo Valentino, italian actor
- October 31 - Harry
Houdini, magician
- October 31 - Charles Vance Millar,
rich Torontonian whose final Will sparked the Great Toronto Stork
Derby
- December 4 - Ivana
Kobilca, Slovene painter (*
1861)
- December 5 - Claude
Monet, painter
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