May 1926 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1926 Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
• 02 May 1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
• 03 May 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
• 04 May 1926 General strike hits Britain
• 05 May 1926 Geldrop soccer team forms
• 08 May 1926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
• 09 May 1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
• 10 May 1926 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8.
• 11 May 1926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
• 12 May 1926 Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
• 15 May 1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike.
• 17 May 1926 German Government of Wilhelm Marx takes power.
• 18 May 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
• 19 May 1926 French air force bombs Damascus, Syria.
• 20 May 1926 Railway Labor Act became law.
• 22 May 1926 Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue by Gene Austin hits #1
• 23 May 1926 Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate.
• 24 May 1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 metres (8:25.4).
• 25 May 1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
• 26 May 1926 Lebanon adopts constitution.
• 28 May 1926 US Customs Court created by Congress.
• 31 May 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia

Famous Birthday

• Miles Davis

  American musician, jazz composer, bandleader and recording artist, one of the most consistent trendsetters in jazz history.

• Fernand Raynaud

  French stand-up comic star, an actor and a singer.

• David Attenborough

  English broadcaster and naturalist.

• Charles Denner

  Actor (Mado, Stella, Z, Landru), dies at 69.

• Don Rickles

  Comedian.

• Louis Velle
• Abdoulaye Wade

  Senegalese academic and politician 3rd President of Senegal.

• Swami Kriyananda

  American writer, composer, playwright, photographer and singer, who is best known as a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, the first Master...

• Jean-Marie Rivière

  French actor and nightclub owner.

• Michio Kushi

  Japanese-American entrepreneur who along with his wife, Aveline, are head of the macrobiotic movement in America, leaders in the field since...

• Ann B Davis
• François Perigot

  French entrepreneur, businessman and trade unionist.

• Eric Morecambe

  British comedian of over 40 years with partner Ernie Wise until his death on 5/28/1984.

• Christine Jorgensen

  American transsexual who said "nature made a mistake.

• Gérard Saumade
• Claude Akins

  American actor (d. 1994).

• Stanley Baxter

  Scottish actor and comedian.

• William Haddon

  American physician, government official, road safety specialist.

• Kay Kendall

  British actress (Genevieve), dies of Leukemia at 32.

• Hugo Banzer Suarez
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Famous Deaths

• Joseph Mallaby Dent

  Publisher.

• Mohammed VI Vahideddin

  Last Sultan of Turkey (1918-22).

• Ronald Arthur A Firbank

  British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40.

• Hans Koessler

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Symon Petlyura

  Leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47.

• S V Petlura

  Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard.

• Libert H Boeynaems

  Belgian Catholic prelate (Born 1857).

• Nicolaus Adriani

  translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at age 60.

• Napoleon V Bonaparte

  French pretender to the throne, dies at age 63.

• Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman)

  last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies.

• Srecko Kosovel

  Slovenian poet (Born 1904).

• Lucien Herr

  French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller).

• Vladimir Steklov

  Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926).

• Mehmed VI

  last Ottoman Sultan (Born 1861).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Carolyn Thompson - Only a Rose
2. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - That Certain Feeling
3. Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - I Love My Baby
4. Johnny Marvin - Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley
5. Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra - Always