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1926 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2027. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1926 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1926
- February 13, 1926 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 14, 1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded.
- 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 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.
- August 6, 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- September 8, 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
- October 14, 1926 – The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
- November 11, 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
- November 18, 1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
Who Were Born On 1926?
- January 5, 1926 – Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist (d. 2000)
- January 14, 1926 – Frank Aletter, American actor (d. 2009)
- April 17, 1926 – Joan Lorring, Hong Kong-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
- May 2, 1926 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 1993)
- June 6, 1926 – Erdal İnönü, Turkish physicist and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2007)
- June 16, 1926 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan general and politician, 26th President of Guatemala
- July 8, 1926 – David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (d. 2014)
- August 14, 1926 – Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist
- October 10, 1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
- November 3, 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Lithuania