News and Events of 1926

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany)

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A general strike in Britain brings the nation's activities to a standstill.
U.S. marines are dispatched to Nicaragua during the revolt; they remain until 1933.
Chiang Kai-shek becomes leader of China's revolutionary party following the 1925 death of Sun Yat-sen.
Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly from Spitsbergen to the North Pole and back.

President: Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Population: 117,397,000

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U.S. troops land in Nicaragua (May 2) to preserve order after a revolt against the new president Emiliano Chamorro.
Father Coughlin makes his first radio broadcast, beginning his 20-year career of racist and right-wing polemics.

Federal spending:   $2.93 billion
Consumer Price Index:   17.7
Unemployment:   1.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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St. Louis Cardinals d. NY Yankees (4-3)

Montreal Maroons d. Victoria (WHL) (3-1)

Women: Kathleen Godfree d. L. de Alvarez (6-2 4-6 6-3)
Men: Jean Borotra d. H. Kinsey (8-6 6-1 6-3)

Bubbling Over

Alabama (CFRA, HF) (9-0-1) & Stanford (DS) (10-0-1)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
Drama: Craig's Wife, George Kelly

Nobel Prize for Literature: Grazia Deledda (Italy)

Miss America: Norma Smallwood (OK)

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RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse establish NBC, which operates two national radio networks.
The Book-of-the-Month Club is founded and begins to sell books at reduced prices by mail and on a subscription basis.
Martha Graham, the American pioneer of the modern-dance revolt, gives her first New York performance, which features 18 barefoot, evocatively costumed dancers.