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1926 Historical Event(s)
February 13, 1926
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
April 24, 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.
May 9, 1926
– Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd’s diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
May 12, 1926
– UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
May 25, 1926
– Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People’s Republic.
June 14, 1926
– Brazil leaves the League of Nations
September 8, 1926
– Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
October 24, 1926
– Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
October 31, 1926
– Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
November 18, 1926
– George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize”.
Who Were Born On 1926?
January 7, 1926
– Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician
February 16, 1926
– Margot Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim (d. 1945)
February 26, 1926
– H.M., Henry Gustav Molaison, the amnesiac patient (d. 2008)
April 6, 1926
– Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
July 20, 1926
– Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
October 14, 1926
– Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor and tv personality (d. 1985)
November 24, 1926
– Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
December 21, 1926
– Joe Paterno, American football coach
December 23, 1926
– Robert Bly, American poet
December 24, 1926
– Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director