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1926 in the United States

Events from the year 1926 in the United States.

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. 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 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. • May 20 – 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 1 – Benjamin Franklin Bridge opens. • July 4 – The United States sesquicentennial is celebrated. • 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. • September 25 – The Detroit Cougars, a professional ice hockey club (National Hockey League) and predecessor of the Detroit Red Wings, is founded. 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 2 – Bibb Graves is elected the 38th governor of Alabama defeating J. A. Bingham. • 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. Undated • Microbiologist Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes. • The Pike School in Andover, Massachusetts, is founded. • Lundy's Restaurant is founded at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. OngoingLochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937) • U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934) • Prohibition (1920–1933) • Roaring Twenties (1920–1929) ==Births==
Births
JanuaryJanuary 2Harold Bradley, American country music session guitarist (d. 2019) • Howard Caine, American actor (d. 1993) • January 5Hosea Williams, civil rights leader, activist, minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician (d. 2000) • W. D. Snodgrass, poet (d. 2009) • January 6Ralph Branca, baseball player (d. 2016) • Pat Flaherty, race car driver (d. 2002) • January 8Chester Feldman, television game show producer (d. 1997) • Evelyn Lear, soprano (d. 2012) • Soupy Sales, comedian (d. 2009) • January 11Grant Tinker, television executive (d. 2016) • January 12Ray Price, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013) • January 14Tom Tryon, American actor, novelist (d. 1991) • January 17Newton N. Minow, attorney (d. 2023) • January 20Patricia Neal, actress (d. 2010) • David Tudor, American pianist, composer (d. 1996) • January 21Saul Mandel, illustrator, artist, animator and graphic designer (d. 2011) • Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000) • January 24Ruth Asawa, sculptor (d. 2013) • January 29Bob Falkenburg, tennis player and entrepreneur (d. 2022) • January 31Chuck Willis, singer and songwriter (d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth as 1928) FebruaryFebruary 1Nancy Gates, American actress (d. 2019) • February 3Richard Yates, novelist (d. 1992) • February 7Bill Hoest, cartoonist (d. 1988) • February 8Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968) • February 10Mimi Sheraton, food critic (d. 2023) • February 12Charles Van Doren, American professor, subject of film Quiz Show (d. 2019) • Joe Garagiola, baseball player (d. 2016) • February 13Bill Mercer, sportscaster (d. 2025) • February 14Al Brodax, film, television producer (d. 2016) • Moneta Sleet Jr., press photographer (d. 1996) • February 17Peter T. Flawn, geologist and educator (d. 2017) • Lee Hoiby, composer (d. 2011) • February 18A. R. Ammons, poet and academic (d. 2001) • Wallace Berman, painter and illustrator (d. 1976) • Len Ford, American football player (d. 1972) • February 20Whitney Blake, American actress (d. 2002) • Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013) • Bob Richards, American track and field athlete (d. 2023) • February 22 – Nelson Bunker Hunt, businessman (d. 2014) • February 23 • Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and director (d. 2017) • Claire Shulman, American politician (d. 2020) • February 26 • Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (d. 2015) • Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008) • Doris Belack, American actress (d. 2011) MarchMarch 1Pete Rozelle, National Football League commissioner (d. 1996) • March 2Murray Rothbard, economist (d. 1995) • March 3Craig Dixon, athlete (d. 2021) • James Merrill, poet (d. 1995) • March 4DeVan Dallas, politician (d. 2016) • Richard DeVos, billionaire, co-founder of Amway (d. 2018) • Fran Warren, popular singer (d. 2013) • March 5Joan Shawlee, actress (d. 1987) • March 6Alan Greenspan, economist • March 8Dick Teed, Major League Baseball player (d. 2014) • March 9Joe Franklin, radio, television personality (d. 2015) • March 11Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990) • Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017) • March 12George Ariyoshi, American politician, lawyer (d. 2026) • March 15Ben Johnston, composer (d. 2019) • Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983) • March 16Charles Goodell, politician (d. 1987) • Jerry Lewis, comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (d. 2017) • Geraldine Weiss, trader (d. 2022) • March 17Jaynne Bittner, baseball player (d. 2017) • March 18Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010) • March 20Marge Calhoun, surfer (d. 2017) • March 25Gene Shalit, film and book critic and television personality • March 27Harry Connick Sr., attorney (d. 2024) • March 30Peter Marshall, entertainer (d. 2024) AprilApril 1Charles Bressler, American operatic tenor and educator (d. 1996) • Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011) • April 3Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967) • R. W. Schambach, American televangelist, speaker and author (d. 2012) • April 4Addo Bonetti, politician and soldier (d. 2021) • Bill Ryan, American journalist (d. 1997) • April 5Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman (d. 2024) • April 6Alexander Butterfield, American public official, Watergate whistleblower (d. 2026) • Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2018) • April 8Sue Casey, American actress (d. 2019) • Shecky Greene, American actor and comedian (d. 2023) • April 9Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor, founder of Playboy (d. 2017) • Harris Wofford, American politician, U.S. Senator from 1991 to 1995 (d. 2019) • April 11David Manker Abshire, United States Army officer (d. 2014) • April 12Jane Withers, American actress (d. 2021) • April 15Walter Dee Huddleston, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1973 to 1985 (d. 2018) • April 21Wayne E. Meyer, American rear-admiral (d. 2009) • April 22Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d. 2018) • April 23J. P. Donleavy, American novelist (d. 2017 in Ireland) • April 24Marilyn Erskine, actress • April 27Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician (d. 2017) • Tim LaHaye, evangelist, speaker and author (d. 2016) • April 28James Bama, American artist, illustrator (d. 2022) • Greg Gates, American Olympic rower (d. 2020) • Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016) • April 29Paul Baran, American internet pioneer (d. 2011) • Carrie Meek, American politician and educator (d. 2021) • April 30Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021) MayMay 5Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014) • Bing Russell, American actor (d. 2003) • May 8Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d. 2017) • May 10Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (d. 2004) • May 11Caesar Trunzo, American soldier and politician (d. 2013) • May 12Earl Dewitt Hutto, American politician (d. 2020) • Marilyn Knowlden, American child actress (d. 2025) • May 18Douglas Henry, American politician (d. 2017) • May 19Mark Andrews, U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1981 to 1987 (d. 2020) • May 21Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005) • May 23Aileen Hernandez, African American civil rights activist (d. 2017) • May 25Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994) • Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d. 2013) • May 26Miles Davis, African-American jazz musician (d. 1991) • May 30Johnny Gimble, country musician, fiddler (d. 2015) • Marilyn Hagerty, newspaper columnist (d. 2025) • Tony Terran, trumpet player, session musician (d. 2017) JuneJune 1Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012) • Marilyn Monroe, American actress and icon (d. 1962) • Richard Schweiker, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1981 (d. 2015) • June 3Roscoe Bartlett, Republican member of the United States House of RepresentativesRoxcy Bolton, American feminist and civil and women's rights activist (d. 2017) • Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997) • June 5Peter G. Peterson, American banker and businessman, American Secretary of Commerce (d. 2018) • June 6Sholom Rivkin, American rabbi (d. 2011) • June 9Georgia Holt, singer and actress (d. 2022) • Happy Rockefeller, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Nelson A. Rockefeller (d. 2015) • June 10June Haver, American actress and singer (d. 2005) • June 11Carlisle Floyd, American composer (d. 2021) • June 13Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter (d. 2025) • Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982) • June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014) • June 14Gene Derricotte, American football player (d. 2023) • Don Newcombe, American baseball player (d. 2019) • June 16William F. Roemer, Jr., United States FBI agent (d. 1996) • June 18Murray A. Straus, American sociologist and professor (University of New Hampshire), creator of the Conflict tactics scale (d. 2016) • June 19Erna Schneider Hoover, mathematician and inventor • Arno Mayer, historian and writer (d. 2023) • June 21Fred Cone, professional American football fullback (d. 2021) • Noel Parmentel, American writer and political journalist (d. 2024) • June 22George Englund, film editor, director, producer and actor (d. 2017) • Ray Szmanda, radio and television announcer (d. 2018) • June 24Blackie Gejeian, race car driver, race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d. 2016) • Barbara Scofield, tennis player (d. 2023) • June 27Len Ceglarski, hockey player (d. 2017) • Don Raleigh, ice hockey player (d. 2012) • June 28George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022) • Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter • June 29Roger Stuart Bacon, American politician (d. 2021) • Bobby Morgan, baseball player (d. 2023) JulyJuly 1Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (d. 2019) • Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) • July 3Rae Allen, American actress, director, and singer (d. 2022) • July 4Mary Stuart, soap actress and musician (d. 2002) • Lake Underwood, race car driver and businessman (d. 2008) • July 5Roy Hawes, American first baseman in Major League Baseball (d. 2017) • Mario Picone. American pitcher (d. 2013) • July 8John Dingell, American politician (d. 2019) • July 10Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer (d. 2022) • 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 11Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian (d. 2022) • Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015) • July 12Abe Addams, American soccer player (d. 2017) • July 13T. Loren Christianson, American politician (d. 2019) • Thomas Clark, American politician (d. 2020) • July 14Wallace Jones, basketball player (d. 2014) • Harry Dean Stanton, actor (d. 2017) • July 16Paul M. Ellwood Jr., physician (d. 2022) • Irwin Rose, biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015) • July 17William Pierson, American television, motion picture and stage actor (d. 2004) • Charles Zwick, American civil servant (d. 2018) • July 18Nita Bieber, American actress (d. 2019) • July 19Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer (d. 2024) • Robert E. Lavender, American Justice (d. 2020) • July 23Johnny Groth, American baseball player and scout (d. 2021) • July 27Marlow Cook, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1968 to 1974 (d. 2016) • Simpson Kalisher, American photographer (d. 2023) • July 31Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011) • Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016) AugustAugust 1Meg Randall, actress (d. 2018) • August 2W. Carter Merbreier, television host (Captain Noah) (d. 2016) • August 3Tony Bennett, singer (d. 2023) • David Johnson, photographer (d. 2024) • August 6Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019) • August 7John Otho Marsh Jr., American politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Army (d. 2019) • Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015) • Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (d. 2019) • August 9Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014) • August 11Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017) • August 12Douglas Croft, actor (d. 1963) • John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998) • Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002) • August 14Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017) • August 16Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999) • August 21Carolyn Leigh, lyricist (d. 1983) • August 22Lois Hall, American actress (d. 2006) • August 26Robert Vickrey, American artist and author (d. 2011) • August 27Albert H. Owens Jr., American oncologist (d. 2017) • August 29Don Doll, American football player and coach (d. 2010) • Betty Lynn, American actress (d. 2021) SeptemberSeptember 1Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018) • September 3Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (d. 2019) • Alison Lurie, American author and academic (d. 2020) • September 4Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician (d. 2021) • September 6Maurice Prather, American photographer (d. 2001) • Clancy Sigal, American writer (d. 2017) • September 7Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2015) • Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997) • Donald Pinkel, American physician (d. 2022) • September 9Charles Duncan Jr., American businessman and politician (d. 2022) • September 14Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d. 2014) • John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d. 2015) • September 15William J. Bauer, American judge (d. 2025) • September 16Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005) • John Knowles, American author (d. 2001) • Robert Schuller, American televangelist, motivational speaker and author (d. 2015) • September 17Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader, a pioneer of rock and roll music (d. 1965) • September 18Joe Kubert, American author and illustrator, founded The Kubert School (d. 2012) • Bob Toski, American golfer • September 19James Lipton, American television personality and writer (d. 2020) • Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011) • September 21Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) • September 22Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2020) • September 23John Coltrane, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967) • Henry Silva, American actor (d. 2022) • September 25Charles J. Colgan, American politician and businessman (d. 2017) • September 26Julie London, American jazz and pop singer, screen actress and model (d. 2000) • September 28Ralph Ahn, American actor (d. 2022) • Jerry Clower, American country comedian (d. 1998) • Oliver W. Dillard, United States Army major general (d. 2015) • September 29Chuck Cooper, basketball player (d. 1984) • Philip Ruppe, American politician • September 30Dave Hunt, American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d. 2013) OctoberOctober 1Max Morath, American musician (d. 2023) • October 4Senaida Wirth, American female professional baseball player (d. 1967) • October 10Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997) • October 11Earle Hyman, American actor (d. 2017) • October 13Jesse L. Brown, first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d. 1950) • October 15Jeffrey Hayden, American television director and producer (d. 2016) • Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000) • October 16Charles Dolan, American billionaire businessman (d. 2024) • October 17Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019) • Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2008) • October 18Chuck 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 19Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2021) • October 21Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d. 2009) • October 25Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2020) • Biff McGuire, American actor (d. 2021) • Eddie Sheldrake. American restaurateur and basketball player (d. 2025) • October 27H. R. Haldeman, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993) • October 28Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007) NovemberNovember 1Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015) • November 2Whitey Skoog, American basketball player (d. 2019) • Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2008) • November 4Carmen A. Orechio, American politician (d. 2018) • Laurence Rosenthal, composer • November 8Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist (d. 2025) • Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017) • Ira Millstein, American lawyer (d. 2024) • November 9Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower (d. 2021) • November 13Harry Hughes, American politician (d. 2019) • November 14Tom Hatten, American radio and television personality (d. 2019) • November 16Amy Applegren, American professional baseball player (d. 2011) • November 19Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d. 2006) • November 20Ann Turner Cook, American educator and writer (d. 2022) • November 22Bobbie Wygant, American broadcaster (d. 2024) • November 23R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005) • November 25Poul Anderson, science fiction author (d. 2001) • Claire Fagin, American nurse and academic (d. 2024) • Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969) • Terry Kilburn, American actor • November 30Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003) DecemberDecember 7William John McNaughton, American bishop (d. 2020) • December 8Ralph Puckett, U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2024) • December 9Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) • Lorenzo Wright, American track and field athlete (d. 1972) • December 10Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959) • December 12Dorli Rainey, American political activist (d. 2022) • December 13Carl Erskine, American baseball player (d. 2024) • December 16James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988) • December 17Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014) • December 19Herb Stempel, American game show contestant (d. 2020) • December 20David Levine, American artist and illustrator (d. 2009) • December 21Elisabeth Elliot, Christian author and speaker (d. 2015) • Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012) • December 23Robert Bly, poet (d. 2021) • December 26Champ Butler, singer (d. 1992) ==Deaths==
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 – • Albert B. Cummins, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1908 to 1926 (born 1850) • Max Levy, American inventor and scientist (born 1857) • 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 12 – Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911 (born 1836) • 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==
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