1926 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years:	1923 1924 1925 – 1926 – 1927 1928 1929

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 16 – BBC radio play about worker's revolution causes a panic in London
• January 26 – John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.
• January 31 – British and Belgian troops leave Cologne
• February 9 – Flooding on London suburbs
• March 6 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire
• March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
• April 7 – Failed assassination attempt against Mussolini
• 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 16 – Train crash in San Jose, Costa Rica – 178 dead
• April 21 – Princess Elizabeth born in London
• April 25 – Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."

Nobel Prizes

• Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish doctor, won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1867) (d. 1928)

Births

• January 1 - Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
• January 3 – George Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records, later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• January 26 – Kim Tae Jung, President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize winner
• January 29 – Franco Cerri, Italian jazz guitarist
• January 29 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel Prize in Physics winner (d. 1996)
• February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2009)
• February 9 - Garret FitzGerald, Irish Taoiseach (d. 2011)
• February 16 - Margot Frank, sister of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
• February 16 – John Schlesinger, British movie director (d. 2003)
• February 20 - Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013)
• March 16 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian
• March 24 - Dario Fo, Italian writer
• March 27 – Clarence Henry, American boxer
• April 7 – James Garner, American actor
• April 21 – Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms.
• April 28 – Harper Lee, American writer
• May 8 - David Attenborough, British documentary movie maker, broadcaster and naturalist
• May 25 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
• June 1 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress, singer and model (d. 1962)
• June 3 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet and writer (d. 1997)
• June 16 – Adriano Emperado, Filipino-Hawaiian martial artist
• June 28 – Mel Brooks, American actor, screenwriter, movie director and movie producer
• July 10 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
• August 13 – Fidel Castro, Cuban president
• October 15 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
• October 18 – Chuck Berry, American singer and songwriter
• October 25 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian opera singer (d. 2012)
• October 26 – Robert Baker, American boxer (d. 2002)
• November 30 - Andrew W. Schally, Polish Nobel Prize in Medicine winner
• November 30 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
• December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter
• Bernie Little, American businessman (d. 2003)

Deaths

• January 3 – Emmet D. Boyle, American Governor of Nevada (b. 1879)
• January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen of the Kingdom of Italy (b. 1851)
• February 15 – Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist (b. 1901)
• June 9 – Sanford Dole, American politician and businessman (b. 1844)
• August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (b. 1860)
• December 6 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
• Iraj Mirza, Iranian poet (b. 1874)

Movies

• The Scarlet Letter