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1926

x - Milne's Winnie the Pooh

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x - Niblo's Ben Hur

x - Commercial picture facsimile radio service across the Atlantic.

x - Some radios get automatic volume control, a mixed blessing.

x - The Book-of-the-Month Club.

x - In U.S., first 16mm movie is shot.

x - Bell Telephone Labs transmit film by television.

x - Chiang stages coup in Canton

x - Trotsky expelled from Politburo

x - Heisenberg and Schroedinger lay the foundations of quantum theory

x - The Kodak Co. produces the first 16 milimeter movie film.

x - Lufthansa airlines founded in Germany.

x - Andre Gide's novel Les Faux-Monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters), published in France.

x - Ezra Pound's poems Personae published in U.S.

x - Ivan Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes is published in the U.S.S.R.

x - Officials estimate that 100,000 speakeasies are operating in New York City alone. The actual figure was about 32,000, which is more than double the number of taverns in the city before Prohibition.

x - Lincoln Elsworth leads first aerial crossing of the Artic, in a dirigible

x - Fascist youth organizations: Hitlerjugend and the Italian Ballilla founded.

x - Republic of Lebanon declared.

x - General Strike in England.

x - John Ford movie Three Bad Men

x - Robert Joseph Flaherty film Mona

x - Two guards and nine inmates die when 1,400 prisoners riot at Folsom State Prison.

x - U.S. marines dispatched to Nicaragua during revolt; they remain until 1933.

x - Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises.

x - Claude Monet dies.

x - Radio makers form NBC.

x - The first telephone calls between New York and London take place

x - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations but will withdraw in 1933.

x - Martha Graham opens her dance studio.

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x - Langston Hughes' first poetry collection The Weary Blues is published.

x - T.E. Lawrence a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia publishes his firsthand account of the Arabian struggle for self rule, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

x - Georgia O'Keefe paints "Black Iris."

x - Surrealist gallery opens in Paris.

x - Electrical phonograph recording, "Electrola," is introduced in the U.S., a vast improvement over tinny acoustic recording technology.

x - A.A. Michelson uses a series of mirrors set up over 25 miles/35 kilometers to measure the speed of light.

x - The first compound fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium are manufactured in Britain.

x - Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly composes his ballet Hary Janos in Budapest

x - E.L. Thorndike's influential book on how to numerically measure intelligence, The Measurement of Intelligence is published in the U.S.

x - Thomas Hunt Morgan's The Theory of the Gene is published in the U.S.

x - British astronomer/physicist Arthur Stanley Eddington's classic tome The Internal Constitution of the Stars is published.

x - Aerosol spray invented by Rotheim in Norway.

x - The canine, Rin Tin Tin, is the biggest box office star.

x - Bavarian Therese Neumann develops the stigmata.

x - Antonio Buzzacchino invents the permanent wave.

x - Polygamy and the fez are banned in newly secular Turkey.

x - Ford Trimotor Model 4-AT released and becomes the first successful commercial aircraft. Ford Trimotor will be used by Adm. Byrd to fly over the South Pole in 1929

x - Arthur H. Estabrook and Ivan E. McDougle publish Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe.

x - Society The Swiss Pro Juventute Foundation begins to take children away from Roma without their consent, to change their names, and to put them into foster homes. This program continues until 1973. Switzerland has apologized to the Roma, but adamantly refuses to allow them access to the records which will help them locate the children taken from them.

x - Military Technology First liquid-propellent rocket launched.

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