Events from the year 1926 in the United States.
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Incumbents
- President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
- Vice President: Charles G. Dawes (R-Illinois)
- Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio)
- Senate Majority Leader: Charles Curtis (R-Kansas)
- Congress: 69th
Events
January–March
- February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch.
- March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
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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.
- 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.[1][2]
- 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
- July 12 – A lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey.
- July 26 – The National Bar Association incorporates in the United States.
- August 6 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- August 18 – A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
- September 11 – Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i.
- September 16 – Philip Dunning and George Abbott's play Broadway premieres in New York City.
- September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion today).
- September 20 – Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.
October–December
- 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.[3][4]
Undated
- Microbiologist Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes.
- The Pike School in Andover, Massachusetts, is founded.
- Lundy's Restaurant is founded at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
Ongoing
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
- Prohibition (1919–1933)
- Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)
Births
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January
- January 2 – Harold Bradley, American country music session guitarist (d. 2019)
- January 5
- Hosea Williams, civil rights leader, activist, minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician (d. 2000)
- William De Witt Snodgrass, poet (d. 2009)
- January 6 – Ralph Branca, baseball player (d. 2016)
- January 8
- Chester Feldman, television game show producer (d. 1997)
- Evelyn Lear, soprano (d. 2012)
- Soupy Sales, comedian (d. 2009)
- January 11 – Grant Tinker, television executive (d. 2016)
- January 12 – Ray Price, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
- January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor, novelist (d. 1991)
- January 16 – Walter Maslow, actor
- January 17 – Newton N. Minow, attorney
- January 20 – Patricia Neal, actress (d. 2010)
- January 21 – Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
- January 24 – Ruth Asawa, sculptor (d. 2013)
February
- February 1 – Nancy Gates, American actress (d. 2019)
- February 3 – Richard Yates, novelist (d. 1992)
- February 7 – Bill Hoest, cartoonist (d. 1988)
- February 8 – Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
- February 10 – Mimi Sheraton, food critic
- February 12
- Charles Van Doren, American professor, subject of film Quiz Show (d. 2019)
- Joe Garagiola Sr., baseball player (d. 2016)
- February 13 – Bill Mercer, sportscaster
- February 14 – Al Brodax, film, television producer (d. 2016)
- February 17 – Lee Hoiby, composer (d. 2011)
- February 18
- A. R. Ammons, poet and academic (d. 2001)
- Wallace Berman, painter and illustrator (d. 1976)
- February 20
- Whitney Blake, American actress (d. 2002)
- Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013)
- Bob Richards, American track and field athlete
- February 22 – Nelson Bunker Hunt, businessman (d. 2014)
- February 23 – Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and director (d. 2017)
- February 26
- Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (d. 2015)
- Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
- Doris Belack, American actress (d. 2011)
March
- March 1 – Pete Rozelle, National Football League commissioner (d. 1996)
- March 2 – Murray Rothbard, economist (d. 1995)
- March 3
- Craig Dixon, athlete
- James Merrill, poet (d. 1995)
- March 4
- DeVan Dallas, politician (d. 2016)
- Richard DeVos, billionaire, co-founder of Amway (d. 2018)
- James J. Eagan, politician (d. 2000)
- Fran Warren, popular singer (d. 2013)
- 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
- Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
- Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017)
- March 12 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, lawyer
- March 15
- Ben Johnston, composer (d. 2019)
- Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)
- March 16
- Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
- Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (d. 2017)
- March 20 – Marge Calhoun, surfer (d. 2017)
April
- April 1
- Charles Bressler, operatic tenor and educator (died 1996)
- Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011)
- April 3
- Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- R. W. Schambach, American televangelist, speaker and author (d. 2012)
- April 5 – Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
- April 6 – Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2018)
- April 8 – Sue Casey, American actress (d. 2019)
- April 9
- Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor, founder of Playboy (died 2017)
- Harris Wofford, American politician, U.S. Senator from 1991 to 1995 (d. 2019)
- April 11 – David Manker Abshire, United States Army officer (d. 2014)
- April 12 – Jane Withers, American actress
- April 15 – Walter Dee Huddleston, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1973 to 1985 (died 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 (died 2017 in Ireland)
- April 27
- Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician (d. 2017)
- Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker and author (d. 2016)
- April 28
- James Bama, American artist, illustrator
- Greg Gates, American Olympic rower
- Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)
- April 29
- Paul Baran, American internet pioneer (d. 2011)
- April 30 – Cloris Leachman, American actress
May
- May 5
- Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
- Bing Russell, American actor (d. 2003)
- 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 (died 2013)
- May 12 – Earl Dewitt Hutto, American politician
- May 18 – Douglas Henry, American politician (d. 2017)
- May 19 – Mark Andrews, U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1981 to 1987
- May 21 – Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
- May 23 – Aileen Hernandez, African American civil rights activist (died 2017)
- May 25
- Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
- Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d. 2013)
- May 26 – Miles Davis, African-American jazz musician (died 1991)
- May 30
- Tony Terran, American trumpet player, session musician (d. 2017)
- Johnny Gimble, American country musician, fiddler (d. 2015)
June
- June 1
- Andy Griffith, American actor (died 2012)
- Marilyn Monroe, American actress and icon (died 1962)
- Richard S. Schweiker, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1981 (died 2015)
- June 3 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (died 1997)
- June 6 – Sholom Rivkin, American rabbi (d. 2011)
- June 9
- Georgia Holt, American singer and actress
- Happy Rockefeller, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Nelson A. Rockefeller (died 2015)
- June 10 – June Haver, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
- June 13
- Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
- June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014)
- June 14 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player (d. 2019)
- June 16 – William F. Roemer, Jr., United States FBI agent (d. 1996)
- June 19
- Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
- Arno Mayer, American historian and writer
- June 22
- George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (d. 2017)
- Ray Szmanda, American radio and television announcer (d. 2018)
- June 24
- Blackie Gejeian, American race car driver, race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d. 2016)
- Barbara Scofield, American tennis player
- June 28
- Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter
- George Booth, American cartoonist
- Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
July
- July 1
- Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (d. 2019)
- Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- July 3 – Rae Allen, American actress, director, and singer
- July 4 – Lake Underwood, race car driver and businessman (died 2008)
- July 5
- Roy Hawes, American first baseman in Major League Baseball (d. 2017)
- Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
- Mario Picone. American pitcher (d. 2013)
- July 8 – John Dingell, American politician (d. 2019)
- July 10
- Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer
- Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993)
- Harry MacPherson, American pitcher (d. 2017)
- Tony Settember, American racing driver (d. 2014)
- July 11
- Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian
- Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
- July 14 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (d. 2017)
- July 16 – Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
- July 17
- William Pierson, American television, motion picture and stage actor (d. 2004)
- Charles Zwick, American civil servant (d. 2018)
- July 18 – Nita Bieber, American actress (d. 2019)
- July 19
- Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer
- Robert E. Lavender, American Justice
- July 27 – Marlow Cook, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1968 to 1974 (died 2016)
- July 31
- Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011)
- Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)
August
- August 1 – Meg Randall, American actress (d. 2018)
- August 3 – Tony Bennett, American musician
- August 6
- Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019)
- Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
- August 7
- John Otho Marsh Jr., American politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Army (d. 2019)
- Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015)
- 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
- Douglas Croft, actor (died 1963)
- John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998
- Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
- August 14 – Buddy Greco, jazz and pop singer and pianist (died 2017)
- August 21 – Carolyn Leigh, lyricist (died 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
- Don Doll, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
- Betty Lynn, American actress
September
- September 1 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
- September 3
- Joseph P. Kolter, American politician
- Alison Lurie, American author and academic
- September 4 – Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician
- September 6
- Maurice Prather, American photographer (d. 2001)
- Clancy Sigal, American writer (d. 2017)
- September 7
- Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
- Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
- September 9 – Charles Duncan Jr., American entrepreneur and politician
- September 14
- Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d. 2014)
- John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d. 2015)
- September 16
- John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)
- Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist, motivational speaker and author (d. 2015)
- September 17 – Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader, a pioneer of rock and roll music (d. 1965)
- September 18 – Bob Toski, American golfer
- September 19
- James Lipton, American television personality and writer
- Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- September 21 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- September 22 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer
- September 23 – John Coltrane, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
- 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 – Jerry Clower, American country comedian (d. 1998)
- September 29 – Philip Ruppe, American politician
- September 30 – Dave Hunt, American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d. 2013)
October
- October 1 – Max Morath, American musician
- 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
- Jeffrey Hayden, American television director and producer (d. 2016)
- Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
- October 16 – Charles Dolan, American billionaire
- October 17
- Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
- Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2008)
- 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
- October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina
- October 21 – Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d. 2009)
- October 25
- Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer
- Biff McGuire, American actor
- Walter Mengden, American attorney and politician (d. 2018)
- October 27 – H. R. Haldeman, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
- October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
November
- November 1 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
- November 2
- Myer Skoog, American basketball player
- Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
- November 4 – Carmen A. Orechio, American politician (d. 2018)
- November 8
- Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist
- Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017)
- November 9 – Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower
- 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 23 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
- November 25
- Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
- Poul Anderson, American science fiction author (d. 2001)
- November 30 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
December
- December 9 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- December 10 – Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959)
- December 16 – James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
- December 17 – Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014)
- December 19 – Herbert Stempel, American game show contestant
- December 20 – David Levine, American artist and illustrator (d. 2009)
- December 21
- Elisabeth Elliot, American Christian author and speaker (d. 2015)
- Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
- December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet
Unknown
- Date unknown – David Johnson, photographer
Deaths
- January 30 – Barbara La Marr, silent film actress (born 1896)
- February 21 – Charles Ellis Johnson, photographer (born 1857)
- 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 – Albert B. Cummins, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1908 to 1926 (born 1850)
- October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, labor leader (born 1855)
- 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 Charles 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
- ^ Barfoot, Chas H. (2011). Aimee Semple McPherson and the Making of Modern Pentecostalism, 1890–1926. Equinox. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-84553-166-9.
- ^ "Kidnapping and Scandals". Aimee McPherson.com. Old Time Radio. 2016. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
- ^ "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.
External links
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