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May[edit] Main article: May 1926 May 3 – Coal miners are locked out in Britain.

May 9

The French navy bombards Damascus, because of the Druze riots.

Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time.[5] An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996, suggested that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.[6]

May 10

Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia (Hickam parachutes to safety).

May 12

Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over the North Pole, in the airship Norge.

May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach.

May 20 – The United States Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.

May 23 – The first Lebanese constitution is established.

May 25 – At least 165 persons (144 in confirmed, 21 in missing) died, 1926 Mount Tokachi Volcano eruption hit in Hokkaido, Japan, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.[page needed]

May 26 – The Rif War ends, when Rif rebels surrender in Morocco.

May 28 – The 1926 coup d'état, commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.

June[edit] Main article: June 1926 June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland.

June 7 – Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler, as Prime Minister of Sweden.

June 19 – DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, during the King-Byng Affair.

July[edit] Main article: July 1926 July 1

The Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky is authorized by the United States Congress.

July 9 – In Portugal, General Óscar Carmona takes power in a military coup.

July 10 – A bolt of lightning strikes Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days.

July 15 – Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses.

July 23 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

July 26 – The National Bar Association incorporates in the United States. August[edit]

Main article: August 1926 August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes the Cristero War.

August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres, with the movie Don Juan, starring John Barrymore.

August 6 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, from France to England.

August 18

A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C.

August 22 – In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos.

August 23 – The sudden death of popular film actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino, at age 31, causes mass grief and hysteria around the world.

August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship has ended in Greece, and he is now the president.