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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

Contents

Events
Nobel Prizes
Births
Deaths
Movies
Images for kids
See also

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

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1926 para niños

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