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  • Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
    1926
    Salvador Dali

    Left the academy

    Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
    1926

    Dalí left the Academy in 1926, shortly before his final exams.




  • U.S.
    1926
    Harry S. Truman

    National Old Trails Road Association

    U.S.
    1926

    Also in 1926, he became president of the National Old Trails Road Association (NOTRA).




  • Munich, Germany
    1926
    Heinrich Himmler

    Himmler's first leadership position in the SS

    Munich, Germany
    1926

    The SS, initially part of the much larger SA, was formed in 1923 for Hitler's personal protection and was re-formed in 1925 as an elite unit of the SA. Himmler's first leadership position in the SS was that of SS-Gauführer (district leader) in Lower Bavaria from 1926.




  • Oxford, England, United kingdom
    1926
    Edward VIII

    President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

    Oxford, England, United kingdom
    1926

    He took a particular interest in science and in 1926 was president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science when his alma mater, Oxford University, hosted the society's annual general meeting.




  • Germany
    1926
    Weimar Republic

    Germany was accepted as a member of the League of Nations

    Germany
    1926

    In 1926, Germany was admitted to the League of Nations as a permanent member, improving her international standing and giving the right to vote on League matters.




  • São Paulo, Brazil
    1926
    Brazilian Revolution of 1930

    The Fourth and Final dissent Arose Within The Paulista Republican Party (PRP)

    São Paulo, Brazil
    1926

    In 1926, the fourth and final dissent arose within the Paulista Republican Party (PRP). The dissidents were led by Dr. José Adriano de Marrey Junior. He founded the Democratic Party (PD), which, among other reforms, advocated a program of higher education as well as the overthrow of PRP power. This political crisis originated within the Freemasons, chaired by Dr. José Adriano de Marrey Junior. As such, São Paulo was divided during the elections of 1930.




  • Fort Benning, Georgia, U.S.
    1926
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower served as a battalion commander at Fort Benning

    Fort Benning, Georgia, U.S.
    1926

    Eisenhower then served as a battalion commander at Fort Benning, Georgia, until 1927.


  • Berlin
    Sunday Jan 10, 1926
    Max Planck

    Retirement

    Berlin
    Sunday Jan 10, 1926

    He retired from Berlin on 10 January 1926, and was succeeded by Erwin Schrödinger.


  • Germany
    1926
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels published a pamphlet titled Nazi-Sozi

    Germany
    1926

    In 1926, Goebbels published a pamphlet titled Nazi-Sozi which attempted to explain how National Socialism differed from Marxism.


  • Victoria, Australia
    1926
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1926 Victorian Bushfires

    Victoria, Australia
    1926

    During the 1925–1926 Victorian bushfire season a series of major bushfires occurred between 26 January and 10 March 1926 in the state of Victoria in Australia. A total of 60 people were killed, 700 injured, and 1000 buildings were destroyed across the south-east of the state.


  • Morocco
    Wednesday Feb 3, 1926
    Francisco Franco

    Promoted to brigadier general

    Morocco
    Wednesday Feb 3, 1926

    This landing in the heartland of Abd el-Krim's tribe, combined with the French invasion from the south, spelled the beginning of the end for the short-lived Republic of the Rif. Franco's recognition eventually caught up with him and he was promoted to brigadier general on 3 February 1926.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Feb, 1926
    Black History Month

    Negro History Week

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Feb, 1926

    The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week". This week was chosen because it coincided with the birthday of Abraham Lincoln on February 12 and of Frederick Douglass on February 14, both of which dates black communities had celebrated together since the late 19th century.


  • Germany
    Feb, 1926
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels speech titled "Lenin or Hitler?"

    Germany
    Feb, 1926

    In February 1926, Goebbels gave a speech titled "Lenin or Hitler?" in which he asserted that communism or Marxism could not save the German people, but he believed it would cause a "socialist nationalist state" to arise in Russia.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Feb, 1926
    Marcus Garvey

    Dissatisfaction with Sherrill's leadership

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Feb, 1926

    With Garvey absent, William Sherrill became acting head of UNIA. Garvey was angry and in February 1926 wrote to the Negro World expressing his dissatisfaction with Sherrill's leadership. From prison, he organized an emergency UNIA convention in Detroit, where delegates voted to depose Sherrill.


  • Paris, France
    Feb, 1926
    Eiffel Tower

    Leon Collet was killed trying to fly under the tower

    Paris, France
    Feb, 1926

    A year later, in February 1926, pilot Leon Collet was killed trying to fly under the tower. His aircraft became entangled in an aerial belonging to a wireless station.


  • Italy
    Wednesday Apr 7, 1926
    Benito Mussolini

    First assassination was failed

    Italy
    Wednesday Apr 7, 1926

    On 7 April 1926, Mussolini survived the first assassination attempt by Violet Gibson, an Irish woman, and daughter of Lord Ashbourne, who was deported after her arrest.


  • U.S.
    1926
    Penicillin

    Paul de Kruif's 1926 Microbe Hunters describes this incident as contamination by other bacteria rather than by mold

    U.S.
    1926

    However, Paul de Kruif's 1926 Microbe Hunters describes this incident as contamination by other bacteria rather than by mold. In 1887, Garré found similar results.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1926
    Anna May Wong

    Wong put the first rivet into the structure of Grauman's Chinese Theatre

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1926

    In 1926, Wong put the first rivet into the structure of Grauman's Chinese Theatre when she joined Norma Talmadge for its groundbreaking ceremony, although she was not invited to leave her hand- and foot-prints in cement.


  • Germany
    1926
    Weimar Republic

    Increased unemployed in the Weimar Republic

    Germany
    1926

    In 1926, about 2 million Germans were unemployed, which rose to around 6 million in 1932. Many blamed the Weimar Republic. That was made apparent when political parties on both right and left wanting to disband the Republic altogether made any democratic majority in Parliament impossible.


  • United Kingdom
    May, 1926
    Winston Churchill

    General Strike of 1926

    United Kingdom
    May, 1926

    During the General Strike of 1926, Churchill edited the British Gazette, the government's anti-strike propaganda newspaper. After the strike ended, he acted as an intermediary between striking miners and their employers. He later called for the introduction of a legally binding minimum wage.


  • York, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday May 29, 1926
    Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth's II baptized

    York, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday May 29, 1926

    She was baptized by the Anglican Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29 May, and named Elizabeth after her mother.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 1, 1926
    Marilyn Monroe

    Born

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 1, 1926

    Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1, 1926 as the third child of Gladys Pearl Baker .


  • Mosul, Iraq
    1926
    League of Nations

    Mosul issue

    Mosul, Iraq
    1926

    The League resolved a dispute between the kingdom of Iraq and the Republic of Turkey over control of the former Ottoman province of Mosul in 1926.


  • U.S.S.R.
    1926
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois visited the Soviet Union

    U.S.S.R.
    1926

    Nine years after the 1917 Russian Revolution, Du Bois extended a trip to Europe to include a visit to the Soviet Union.


  • U.S.
    1926
    Flag of the United States

    Battle of White Plains Issue

    U.S.
    1926

    The flag did not appear on U.S. postal stamp issues until the Battle of White Plains Issue was released in 1926, depicting the flag with a circle of 13 stars.


  • Yugoslavia
    1926
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla won Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sava

    Yugoslavia
    1926

    Tesla won Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sava (Yugoslavia, 1926).


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jul, 1926
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson would later promote the first Negro History Week

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jul, 1926

    Woodson believed that education and increasing social and professional contacts among blacks and whites could reduce racism and he promoted the organized study of African-American history partly for that purpose. He would later promote the first Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in 1926, forerunner of Black History Month.


  • Birán, Cuba
    Friday Aug 13, 1926
    Fidel Castro

    Born

    Birán, Cuba
    Friday Aug 13, 1926

    Castro was born out of wedlock at his father's farm on 13 August 1926.


  • Germany
    1926
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels was first offered the position of party Gauleiter

    Germany
    1926

    Goebbels was first offered the position of party Gauleiter for the Berlin section in August 1926.


  • Yucatán, Mexico
    1926
    Chichen Itza

    Accusing Edward Thompson with theft

    Yucatán, Mexico
    1926

    In 1926, the Mexican government charged Edward Thompson with theft, claiming he stole the artifacts from the Cenote Sagrado and smuggled them out of the country. The government seized the Hacienda Chichén. Thompson, who was in the United States at the time, never returned to Yucatán. He wrote about his research and investigations of the Maya culture in a book People of the Serpent published in 1932. He died in New Jersey in 1935.


  • Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Present-Day Jakarta, Indonesia)
    Sep, 1926
    Audrey Hepburn

    Joseph and Ella married

    Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Present-Day Jakarta, Indonesia)
    Sep, 1926

    Hepburn's parents were married in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, in September 1926.


  • Japan
    1926
    Yasunari Kawabata

    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    Japan
    1926

    Kawabata started to achieve recognition for a number of his short stories shortly after he graduated, receiving acclaim for "The Dancing Girl of Izu" in 1926, a story about a melancholy student who, on a walking trip down Izu Peninsula, meets a young dancer, and returns to Tokyo in much-improved spirits.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    1926
    Yasunari Kawabata

    Marriage

    Tokyo, Japan
    1926

    In 1926, Kawabata got married to Hideko.


  • Smederevska Palanka, Serbia
    Oct, 1926
    Josip Broz Tito

    Work in a railway works

    Smederevska Palanka, Serbia
    Oct, 1926

    In October 1926 he obtained work in a railway works in Smederevska Palanka near Belgrade.


  • China
    Monday Oct 18, 1926
    Ho Chi Minh

    Marriage

    China
    Monday Oct 18, 1926

    He lived with a Chinese woman, Zeng Xueming (Tăng Tuyết Minh), whom he married on 18 October 1926.


  • Italy
    Sunday Oct 31, 1926
    Benito Mussolini

    Second assassination was failed

    Italy
    Sunday Oct 31, 1926

    On 31 October 1926, 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni attempted to shoot Mussolini in Bologna. Zamboni was lynched on the spot.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1926
    Audrey Hepburn

    Parents moved to England

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1926

    At the time, Ruston worked for a trading company, but soon after the marriage, the couple moved to Europe, where he began working for a loan company; reportedly tin merchants MacLaine, Watson, and Company in London and then Brussels.


  • Germany
    Nov, 1926
    Joseph Goebbels

    Strasser disagreed with Hitler on many parts of the party platform began working on a revision

    Germany
    Nov, 1926

    Members of Strasser's northern branch of the NSDAP, including Goebbels, had a more socialist outlook than the rival Hitler group in Munich. Strasser disagreed with Hitler on many parts of the party platform, and in November 1926 began working on a revision.


  • Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway
    Friday Dec 10, 1926
    Gustav Stresemann

    Nobel Prize

    Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway
    Friday Dec 10, 1926

    Stresemann was co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.


  • Italy
    1926
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini plans to get ready for war

    Italy
    1926

    In 1926, Mussolini ordered every Italian woman to double the number of children that they were willing to bear. For Mussolini, Italy's current population of 40 million was insufficient to fight a major war, and he needed to increase the population to at least 60 million Italians before he would be ready for war.


  • London, United Kingdom
    1926
    Queen Elizabeth II

    The first official portrait of Elizabeth

    London, United Kingdom
    1926

    The first official portrait of Elizabeth was taken by Marcus Adams in 1926.


  • Weimar, Germany
    1926
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels spoke at party meetings in Munich and at the annual Party Congress

    Weimar, Germany
    1926

    At Hitler's invitation, Goebbels spoke at party meetings in Munich and at the annual Party Congress, held in Weimar in 1926.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Saturday Dec 25, 1926
    Hirohito

    Hirohito assumed the Throne

    Tokyo, Japan
    Saturday Dec 25, 1926

    On 25 December 1926, Hirohito assumed the throne upon the death of his father, Yoshihito. The Crown Prince was said to have received the succession (senso).


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