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1926 Calendar

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•  February 13, 1926 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  May 28, 1926 – 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
•  June 23, 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
•  June 29, 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
•  August 6, 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
•  August 20, 1926 – Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
•  August 22, 1926 – Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
•  November 11, 1926 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
•  November 15, 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
•  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”.

•  January 6, 1926 – Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
•  February 24, 1926 – Jean Alexander, English actress
•  March 18, 1926 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
•  May 15, 1926 – Anthony Shaffer, British playwright (d. 2001)
•  July 3, 1926 – Johnny Coles, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1997)
•  September 16, 1926 – Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter
•  September 19, 1926 – Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011)
•  September 25, 1926 – Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
•  November 30, 1926 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)