July 1926 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1926 Canada restores gold standard
• 02 Jul 1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized.
• 03 Jul 1926 A Caudron C-61 aircraft operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne crashes in Czechoslovakia.
• 04 Jul 1926 Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
• 09 Jul 1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary Supreme Commander
• 10 Jul 1926 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto Country Club - Ohio
• 12 Jul 1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
• 13 Jul 1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
• 15 Jul 1926 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
• 16 Jul 1926 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
• 17 Jul 1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
• 19 Jul 1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
• 20 Jul 1926 A convention of the Southern Methodist Church votes to allow women to become ministers.
• 22 Jul 1926 108 degrees F (42 degrees C), Troy, New York (state record).
• 23 Jul 1926 Belgian NMBS / SNCFB forms
• 26 Jul 1926 Philippines government asks US to plebiscite for independence
• 28 Jul 1926 US and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
• 30 Jul 1926 Albanian boundaries deduced

Famous Birthday

• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  Swiss psychiatrist and author who is noted for her work with death and the dying.

• Alfredo Di Stéfano

  Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2014).

• Sim (actor)
• Harry Dean Stanton

  American actor.

• Zibia Gasparetto

  Brazilian member of a famous family of psychics.

• François-Régis Bastide
• Driss Chraïbi

  Moroccan-French journalist and author (d. 2007).

• Don Carter

  American bowling champion, considered America's first top bowler.

• Tiberio Mitri

  Italian boxer, a dramatic and exciting grand champion.

• Norman Jewison

  Canadian-American film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.

• Monique Pelletier
• Hans Werner Henze

  German composer.

• Leopoldo Galtieri

  Argentinian general and politician 44th President of Argentina (d. 2003).

• Bernard Pons

  French physician and politician.

• Max Montavon
• George Hunt Weyerhaeuser
• Bill Pertwee

  English actor (d. 2013).

• Robert L Leggett
• Karel Reisz

  Czech-English director and producer (d. 2002).

• Wallace Jones

  American athlete, pro-basketball player, nicknamed "Wah-Wah.

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Famous Deaths

• Gertrude M L Bell

  British archaeologist (Desert & Sown), dies at 57.

• Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy

  Soviet law enforcement official (Born 1877).

• Emile Coue

  French self-proclaimed psychotherapist best known for his aphorism, "Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

• Charles Wood

  English playwright and screenwriter.

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra - Sorry and Blue
2. Ted Lewis & His Band - I've Found a New Baby
3. Abe Lyman & His California Orchestra - There's a Blue Ridge in My Heart, Virginia
4. Ethel Waters - Sugar
5. Abe Lyman & His California Orchestra - Mary Lou