December 1926 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1926 British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to general strike.
• 03 Dec 1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr / Red Army work together)
• 07 Dec 1926 Gas refrigerator patented.
• 10 Dec 1926 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
• 11 Dec 1926 Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
• 14 Dec 1926 Danish Madsen government forms.
• 15 Dec 1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy.
• 16 Dec 1926 Darius Milhauds opera Le Pauvre Matelot, premieres in Paris
• 17 Dec 1926 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
• 18 Dec 1926 Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar, making 'tomorrow' January 1 1927
• 20 Dec 1926 Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
• 21 Dec 1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
• 23 Dec 1926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
• 25 Dec 1926 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan, succeeding the Taisho Emperor.
• 26 Dec 1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
• 27 Dec 1926 Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square
• 28 Dec 1926 Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348
• 29 Dec 1926 Victoria (1107) beat New South Wales (221 and 230) in cricket by an innings 656 runs.
• 30 Dec 1926 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)

Famous Birthday

• Charles Gérard
• Laurent Negro

  French founder of the first agency in Europe to provide temporary work for the unemployed.

• Jean Troisgros
• Robert Soulé
• Etienne-Emile Baulieu
• Robert Bly

  American poet, translator, editor and publisher; active in the men’s movement since the 1980s, doing workshops and writing about men’s...

• Paul Buissonneau

  A leading francophone theatre director.

• Romain Weingarten
• James McCracken

  American tenor (Born 1926).

• Edmund Purdom
• Carl Erskine

  American baseball player, a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn and Los...

• Patrice Wymore

  American actress and noted spouse, she was married to actor Errol Flynn.

• Raymond Dot

  French athlete, an award winning gymnast at the Olympics, London 1948.

• Georges Boudarel
• Bobby Layne

  American football quarterback who played for 15 seasons in the National Football League.

• Jo Moutet
• Jerome Courtland

  American actor director and producer (d. 2012).

• Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez in Aguilares

  Texas, USA; actor (Rio Bravo).

• John Herbert McDowell

  Composer.

• Hans Otte

  German composer / pianist.

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Famous Deaths

• Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Jan Six

  Dutch art Historian / collector.

• Rainer Maria Rilke

  Austrian writer (Born 1875).

• Theo van Rysselberghe

  Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at age 64.

• Rainer M Rilke

  Austrian songwriter/writer ("Wise Queen"), dies at age 51.

• Nikola Pasic

  Serbian politician (Born 1845).

• Claude Monet

  French painter who was the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style.

• Jean Richepin

  French Poet / writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77.

• Yoshihito

  Japanese emperor, the son of Meiji who reigned only a short nine years.

• Ivana Kobilca

  Slovenian-born painter (Born 1861).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Johnny Hamp & His Orchestra - Black Bottom
2. Revelers - Lucky Day
3. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
4. Billy Murray & Aileen Stanley - I Can't Get Over a Girl Like You (Loving a Boy Like Me)
5. Whispering Jack Smith - Baby Face