1926 Calendar
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1926 Historical Event(s)
January 12, 1926
– Original Sam ‘n’Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos ‘n’Andy in 1928.
February 13, 1926
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
March 15, 1926
– The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 6, 1926
– Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
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.
April 26, 1926
– Spanish tonadilla singer Raquel Meller appears on the cover of Time magazine.
June 29, 1926
– Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
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.
November 15, 1926
– The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
Who Were Born On 1926?
February 7, 1926
– Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut (d. 2009)
March 16, 1926
– Jerry Lewis, American comedian
March 24, 1926
– Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
May 5, 1926
– Ann B. Davis, American actress
July 25, 1926
– Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
August 14, 1926
– René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
August 29, 1926
– María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
September 18, 1926
– Bud Greenspan, American film producer
November 22, 1926
– Arthur Jones, American inventor (d. 2007)
December 20, 1926
– Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician