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next turn year 1926

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1926 January 1 The Rhine River floods; 50,000 are forced to evacuate their homes in Cologne.[1]

Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting.

January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.

January 6 – Airline Deutsche Luft Hansa is founded in Berlin.

January 8

January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portray two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city (it was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy).

January 16 – A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox, about a workers' revolution, causes a panic in London.[2]

January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system for members of the Royal Institution, and a reporter from The Times, at his London laboratory.

January 29 – Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown opens at the Greenwich Theatre.

February[edit] Main article: February 1926 February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years.

February 8 – Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars opens at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

February 12 – The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature.

February 20 – The Berlin International Green Week debuts in Germany.

February 25 – Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain.

March[edit] Main article: March 1926

March 16: Goddard with rocket in 1926.

March 6 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.

The first commercial air route to South Africa is established by Alan Cobham.

March 14 – The El Virilla train accident occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 and injuring 93.

March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

March 23 – Éamon de Valera organises Fianna Fáil in Ireland.

April[edit] Main article: April 1926 April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos wins the presidential election, with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion.[3]

April 7 – An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.

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 had already served for over one year.[why?][citation needed]

April 21 – Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York, later Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, is born in Mayfair, London.

April 25 – Rezā Khan is crowned Shah of Iran, under the name "Pahlevi".

April 30 – African-American pilot Bessie Coleman is killed, after falling 500 feet (150 m) from an airplane.