Important Historical Events of the year 1926, Year 1926 in History

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List of 1926 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1926

What happened in the year 1926?

Date	Event
January 8, 1926	Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ is crowned emperor of Vietnam, the country's last monarch.
January 8, 1926	Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
January 26, 1926	The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 14, 1926	The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
March 16, 1926	History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
March 20, 1926	Chiang Kai-shek initiates a purge of communist elements within the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou.
April 6, 1926	Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
April 7, 1926	Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
April 21, 1926	Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
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 4, 1926	The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 9, 1926	Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
May 12, 1926	The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
May 12, 1926	The 1926 United Kingdom general strike ends.
May 18, 1926	Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 22, 1926	Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
May 25, 1926	Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
May 28, 1926	The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
June 14, 1926	Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
June 20, 1926	The 28th International Eucharistic Congress begins in Chicago, with over 250,000 spectators attending the opening procession.
June 23, 1926	The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
June 28, 1926	Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
July 9, 1926	Chiang Kai-shek accepts the post of commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, marking the beginning of the Northern Expedition to unite China under the rule of the Nationalist government.[8]
July 23, 1926	Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 5, 1926	Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
August 6, 1926	Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
August 6, 1926	In New York City, the Warner Bros.' 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.
September 8, 1926	Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
September 25, 1926	The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
October 24, 1926	Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
November 11, 1926	The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
November 15, 1926	The NBC Radio Network opens with 24 stations.
November 25, 1926	The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
December 17, 1926	Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.