
1926
- Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
- Gertrude Ederle the 1st woman to swim the English Channel
- Goddard fires the first liquid fueled rocket
- 1st appearance of Laurel and Hardy as a comedy team in the movies
- Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
- T.E. Lawrences's ("Lawrence of Arabia's") Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh
- 1st pop-up toaster
- Films - "Metropolis", "Ben Hur"
- Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Allen Ginsberg, John Coltrain, and Chuck Berry
born
- Eugene V. Debs, Claude Monet, Rudolph Valentino, Mary Cassatt, Luther Burbank,
Annie Oakley, and Harry Houdini die
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