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List of events
Events from the year 1926 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
April–June
April 12 – By a vote of 45–41, the
United States Senate unseats
Iowa Senator
Smith W. Brookhart and seats
Daniel F. Steck , after Brookhart has served for over one year.
[1]
April 30 – African-American pilot
Bessie Coleman is killed after falling 2,000 feet (610 m) from an airplane.
May 10 – Planes piloted by Major
Harold Geiger and
Horace Meek Hickam , students at the
Air Corps Tactical School , collide in mid-air over Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachutes to safety.
May 18 – Evangelist
Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a beach at
Venice, California ; on June 23 she is found stumbling in the desert of
Agua Prieta , Mexico just south of
Douglas, Arizona , claiming she has been kidnapped, drugged, tortured and held for ransom, but has escaped.
[2]
[3]
May 12 – The
United States Congress passes the
Air Commerce Act , licensing pilots and planes.
June 19 –
DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's
Grand Ole Opry .
June 23 – The
College Board administers the first
SAT , a major
standardized test for
university and college admission in the U.S.
July–September
October–December
October 10 – The
St. Louis Cardinals defeat the
New York Yankees , 4 games to 3, to win their first World Series Title. This World Series ended when Babe Ruth attempted to steal second base and is the only World Series to end this way.
October 14 – Poland presents President Calvin Coolidge with a
111 volume gift called a "Polish Declaration of Admiration and Friendship for the United States of America" comprising some 15,000 bound sheets with the signatures of an estimated 5,500,000 Polish citizens on the occasion of America's 150th anniversary of independence.
November 10 – In
San Francisco, California , a necrophiliac
serial killer named
Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then
rapes his 9th victim, a
boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
November 11 – The plan for a
United States Numbered Highway System is approved by the
American Association of State Highway Officials , so establishing
U.S. Route 66 .
November 15 – The
NBC
radio network opens with 24 stations (formed by
Westinghouse ,
General Electric and
RCA ).
November 27 – In
Williamsburg, Virginia , the restoration of
Colonial Williamsburg begins.
December 23 – Conservative Nicaraguan President
Adolfo Díaz requests U.S. military assistance in the
Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27) .
U.S. Marines immediately set up neutral zones in
Puerto Cabezas and at the mouth of the
Rio Grande to protect American and foreign lives and property.
[5]
[6]
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Patricia Neal
Steve Reeves
February
Nancy Gates
Verne Gagne
March
Ralph Abernathy
Jerry Lewis
March 1 –
Pete Rozelle , National Football League commissioner (d.
1996 )
[16]
March 2 –
Murray Rothbard , economist (d.
1995 )
[17]
March 3
March 4
March 5 –
Joan Shawlee , actress (d.
1987 )
March 6 –
Alan Greenspan , economist
March 8 –
Dick Teed , Major League Baseball player (d.
2014 )
March 9 –
Joe Franklin , radio, television personality (d.
2015 )
March 11
March 12 –
George Ariyoshi , American politician, lawyer
March 15
March 16
March 17 –
Jaynne Bittner , baseball player (d.
2017 )
March 20 –
Marge Calhoun , surfer (d.
2017 )
March 25 –
Gene Shalit , film and book critic and television personality
March 27 –
Harry Connick Sr. , attorney (d.
2024 )
April
Gus Grissom
Hugh Hefner
Harper Lee
April 1
April 3
April 4 –
Addo Bonetti , politician and soldier (d.
2021 )
[21]
April 5 –
Roger Corman , American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
April 6 –
Randy Weston , American jazz pianist and composer (d.
2018 )
April 8
April 9
April 11 –
David Manker Abshire , United States Army officer (d.
2014 )
April 12 –
Jane Withers , American actress (d.
2021 )
April 15 –
Walter Dee Huddleston , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1973 to 1985 (d.
2018 )
April 21 –
Wayne E. Meyer , American rear-admiral (d.
2009 )
April 22 –
Charlotte Rae , American actress, singer (d.
2018 )
April 23 –
J. P. Donleavy , American novelist (d.
2017 in Ireland )
April 24 –
Marilyn Erskine , actress
April 27
April 28
April 29
April 30 –
Cloris Leachman , American actress (d.
2021 )
May
Don Rickles
Miles Davis
May 5
May 8 –
Don Rickles , American stand-up comedian, actor (d.
2017 )
May 10 –
Tichi Wilkerson Kassel , American film personality, publisher of
The Hollywood Reporter (d.
2004 )
May 11 –
Caesar Trunzo , U.S. soldier and politician (d.
2013 )
May 12 –
Earl Dewitt Hutto , American politician (d.
2020 )
May 18 –
Douglas Henry , American politician (d.
2017 )
May 19 –
Mark Andrews , U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1981 to 1987 (d.
2020 )
May 21 –
Robert Creeley , American poet (d.
2005 )
May 23 –
Aileen Hernandez , African American civil rights activist (d.
2017 )
May 25
May 26 –
Miles Davis , African-American jazz musician (d.
1991 )
May 30
June
Andy Griffith
Marilyn Monroe
Mel Brooks
June 1
June 3
June 5 –
Peter G. Peterson , American banker and businessman, American Secretary of Commerce (d.
2018 )
[27]
June 6 –
Sholom Rivkin , American rabbi (d.
2011 )
June 9
June 10 –
June Haver , American actress and singer (d.
2005 )
June 11 –
Carlisle Floyd , American composer (d.
2021 )
[29]
June 13
June 14
June 16 –
William F. Roemer, Jr. , United States
FBI agent (d.
1996 )
June 18 –
Murray A. Straus , American sociologist and professor (
University of New Hampshire ), creator of the
Conflict tactics scale (d.
2016 )
[32]
June 19
June 21 –
Fred Cone , professional American football fullback (d.
2021 )
June 22
June 24
June 27
June 28
June 29
July
John Dingell
Harry Dean Stanton
Hilary Putnam
August
Tony Bennett
Stan Freberg
August 1 –
Meg Randall , actress (d.
2018 )
August 2 –
W. Carter Merbreier , television host (Captain Noah) (d.
2016 )
August 3
August 6 –
Janet Asimov , American writer and psychiatrist (d.
2019 )
August 7
August 9 –
Frank M. Robinson , American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d.
2014 )
August 11 –
Ron Bontemps , American basketball player (d.
2017 )
August 12
August 14 –
Buddy Greco , American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d.
2017 )
August 16 –
Norman Wexler , American screenwriter (d.
1999 )
August 21 –
Carolyn Leigh , lyricist (d.
1983 )
August 22 –
Lois Hall , American actress (d.
2006 )
August 26 –
Robert Vickrey , American artist and author (d.
2011 )
August 27 –
Albert H. Owens Jr. , American oncologist (d.
2017 )
August 29
September
Donald A. Glaser
John Coltrane
Julie London
September 1 –
Stanley Cavell , American philosopher (d.
2018 )
September 3
September 4 –
Robert J. Lagomarsino , American politician (d.
2021 )
September 6
September 7
September 9 –
Charles Duncan Jr. , American businessman and politician (d.
2022 )
September 14
September 16
September 17 –
Bill Black , American bass player and bandleader, a pioneer of rock and roll music (d.
1965 )
September 18
September 19
September 21 –
Donald A. Glaser , American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2013 )
September 22 –
Bill Smith , American clarinet player and composer (d.
2020 )
September 23
September 25 –
Charles J. Colgan , American politician and businessman (d.
2017 )
September 26 –
Julie London , American jazz and pop singer, screen actress and model (d.
2000 )
September 28
September 29
September 30 –
Dave Hunt , American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d.
2013 )
October
Jean Peters
Julie Adams
Chuck Berry
October 1 –
Max Morath , American musician (d.
2023 )
October 4 –
Senaida Wirth , American female professional baseball player (d.
1967 )
October 10 –
Richard Jaeckel , American actor (d.
1997 )
October 11 –
Earle Hyman , American film and television actor (d.
2017 )
October 13 –
Jesse L. Brown , first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d.
1950 )
October 15
October 16 –
Charles Dolan , American billionaire
October 17
October 18
Chuck Berry , African-American guitarist, singer and songwriter, a pioneer of rock and roll music (d.
2017 )
Pauline Pirok , American female professional baseball player (d.
2020 )
October 19 –
Marjorie Tallchief , American ballerina (d.
2021 )
October 21 –
Bob Rosburg , American golfer (d.
2009 )
October 25
October 27 –
H. R. Haldeman , 4th White House Chief of Staff (d.
1993 )
October 28 –
Bowie Kuhn , American Commissioner of Baseball (d.
2007 )
November
Betsy Palmer
Jeffrey Hunter
November 1 –
Betsy Palmer , American actress (d.
2015 )
November 2
November 4
November 8
November 9 –
Stu Griffing , American Olympic rower (d.
2021 )
November 13 –
Harry Hughes , American politician (d.
2019 )
November 14 –
Tom Hatten , American radio and television personality (d.
2019 )
November 16 –
Amy Applegren , American professional baseball player (d.
2011 )
November 19 –
Jeane Kirkpatrick , American ambassador (d.
2006 )
November 20 –
Ann Turner Cook , American educator and writer (d.
2022 )
November 22 –
Bobbie Wygant , American broadcaster (d.
2024 )
November 23 –
R. L. Burnside , American musician (d.
2005 )
November 25
November 30 –
Richard Crenna , American actor (d.
2003 )
December
Joe Paterno
December 7 –
William John McNaughton , American bishop (d.
2020 )
[39]
December 8 –
Ralph Puckett , U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (d.
2024 )
December 9
December 10 –
Guitar Slim , American
New Orleans blues guitarist (d.
1959 )
December 12 –
Dorli Rainey , American political activist (d.
2022 )
[41]
December 13 –
Carl Erskine , American baseball player (d.
2024 )
[42]
December 16 –
James McCracken , American tenor (d.
1988 )
December 17 –
Patrice Wymore , American actress (d.
2014 )
December 19 –
Herb Stempel , American game show contestant (d.
2020 )
December 20 –
David Levine , American artist and illustrator (d.
2009 )
December 21
December 23 –
Robert Bly , poet (d.
2021 )
December 26 –
Champ Butler , singer (d. 1992)
[43]
Deaths
January 26 –
John Flannagan ,
Roman Catholic priest (born
1860 )
January 30 –
Barbara La Marr , silent film actress (born
1896 )
February 9 –
Edith Julia Griswold , patent attorney (born
1863 )
February 21 –
Charles Ellis Johnson , photographer (born
1857 )
March 2 –
Victory Bateman , stage and silent screen actress (born
1865 )
March 11 –
Maibelle Heikes Justice , novelist and screenwriter (born
1871 )
March 12 –
E. W. Scripps , newspaper publisher (born
1854 )
March 16 –
Sergeant Stubby ,
World War I hero war dog (born
1916 )
April 11 –
Luther Burbank , botanist (born
1849 )
May 10 –
Alton B. Parker , judge and political candidate (born
1852 )
May 26 –
Frank Nelson Cole , mathematician (born
1861 )
July 10 –
Sarah P. Monks , naturalist and educator (born
1841 )
July 26 –
Robert Todd Lincoln , statesman and businessman, son of
Abraham Lincoln (born
1843 )
July 30 –
October 20 –
Eugene V. Debs , labor leader (born
1855 )
October 22 –
John G. Shedd , businessman (born
1850 )
October 23 –
Olympia Brown , suffragette (born
1835 )
October 24 –
Charles Marion Russell , "cowboy artist" (born
1864 )
October 31 –
Harry Houdini , illusionist and stunt performer, known for escape acts (born
1874 )
November 3 –
Annie Oakley , performance artist (born
1860 )
November 15 –
Lafayette Young , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1910 to 1911 (born
1848 )
December 10 –
Peter Remondino , Italian-born physician, author, first president of the San Diego Board of Health, co-founder of San Diego's first private hospital (born
1846 )
December 31 –
Henry A. du Pont , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1906 to 1917 (born
1838 )
See also
References
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"U.S. Senate: The Election Case of Daniel F. Steck v. Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa (1926)" . www.senate.gov . Retrieved 2020-12-06 .
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"Kidnapping and Scandals" . Aimee McPherson.com . Old Time Radio. 2016. Retrieved 2019-06-23 . [
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^
"Nicaragua (1909-present)" .
University of Central Arkansas . Retrieved 2015-01-03 .
^ "U.S. Troops Take 2 Nicaraguan Ports".
Chicago Daily Tribune . 1926-12-24. p. 1.
^
"The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti" . Washington Post . Retrieved 19 August 2022 .
^
"Volstead Act | History, Definition, & Significance | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 15 August 2022 .
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"Patricia Neal | Biography, Movies, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 7 December 2020 .
^ Kozinn, Allan (August 15, 1996).
"David Tudor, 70, Electronic Composer, Dies" .
The New York Times . Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
^
"The Magical Spell of Saul Mandel" . ZAKS Illustrators Source. Archived from
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Bob Falkenburg, California kid who won Wimbledon at 22, dies
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Remembering Geraldine Weiss and Her Winning Dividend Strategy
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Addo E. Bonetti
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Former US Rep. Carrie Meek dies at 95
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"Peter G. Peterson, a Power From Wall St. to Washington, Dies at 91" .
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^ McFadden, Robert D. (May 19, 2015).
"Happy Rockefeller, Whose Marriage to Governor Scandalized Voters, Dies at 88" . The New York Times . Retrieved September 8, 2020 .
^
Obituary: American Opera Composer Carlisle Floyd Dies at 95
^ Yardley, William (August 10, 2014).
"Known as the 'Mother of Masters Swimming' June Krauser Dies at 88; Set 154 Records in the Pool" .
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^
Gene Derricotte, one of Michigan's first Black football players, dies at age 96
^
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Dr. Donald Pinkel, St. Jude hospital's first director and a leukemia pioneer, has died
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Contemporary Graphic Artists . Gale Research Company. 1986. p. 164.
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Henry Silva, Ocean's Eleven and Johnny Cool actor, dies at 95
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Ralph Ahn, Actor on ‘New Girl,’ Dies at 95
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"Most Rev. William J. McNaughton, M.M. (Obituary)" .
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"Lorenzo Wright Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com" . April 18, 2020. Archived from
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Dorli Rainey, Unlikely Face of the Occupy Movement, Dies at 95
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Remembering Carl Erskine: An appreciation of a legendary Brooklyn Dodger
^ Dales, Ossie (June 2012). Down Yonder With (booklet). Champ Butler. London, England: Jasmine Records. JASCD 724.
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New York Times;Max Levy, scientist, inventor and one of the pioneers of the photo-engraving business;August 1, 1926
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