* Meir Atlas ( 1848 – 1926 ), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian cartoonist ( d. 2000 )

* 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician

* 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress

* 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

* 1926 – Elisabeth Beresford, English author ( d. 2010 )

* 1926 – Frank Finlay, English actor

* 1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player ( d. 2007 )

* 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian writer

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba

In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 – 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

* 1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer

* 1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, Australian academic and educator ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer

* 1926 Electric Locomotives — Original locomotives

Original 1926 Turandot poster

* New York Celtics ( 1926 / 27-27 / 28, 1929 / 30, 1937 / 38, also known as the Original Celtics ; as Brooklyn Celtics in 1926 / 27 ; dropped out in December, 1929 )

* Three Original Pieces for the Electric Welte-Mignon Piano ( 1926 ) ( Unpublished )

Original in German: Mein Leben zur See, auf Forschungsreisen und bei Hofe, 1926.

He then worked the remainder of 1926 and the beginning of 1927 with Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvanians.

Founded as the Hershey B ' ars in the Tri-State Hockey League in 1932, the hockey club is also the seventh-oldest continuously operating professional ice hockey organization in North America after the Original Six teams of the National Hockey League which each began operations in their current cities in either the National Hockey Association ( 1909-1917 ) or NHL between 1909 and 1926.

* 1926 – Original route certified ; originally routed along its current alignment from Oldtown to Fairborn ( which was Fairfield and Osborn in 1926 ).

* 1969 – Original route certified ; Waldo to Marion was State Route 4 before 1926 ; Bellaire Gardens to Brush Ridge was the former State Route 22 before 1926 ; the entire route was U. S. Route 23 from 1926 to 1969 ; no significant changes since its certification.

* 1959 – Original route certified ; originally routed from its current southern terminus to Interstate 70 ( then U. S. Route 40 ) 4 miles north of Fairborn along the former alignment of State Route 4 ( this route was the former State Route 52 before 1926 ).

By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, he gained the services of Barney Balaban ( who would eventually become Paramount's president in 1936 ), his brother A. J. Balaban ( who would eventually supervise all stage production nationwide and produce talkie shorts ), and their partner Sam Katz ( who would run the Paramount-Publix theatre chain from New York City ).

In 1926, Gosden and Correll had a hit with their radio show Sam & Henry on Chicago radio station WGN.

Sam ' n ' Henry premiered on Chicago radio station WGN on January 12, 1926, and immediately found an audience of Midwestern listeners.

In 1926, the Chicago Tribune published Sam ' n ' Henry, containing a selection of 25 of the scripts Correll and Gosden wrote for the first two months of their radio series ( judging from the pages of the Chicago Tribune quoted in chapter 23, these are from among the 31 episodes broadcast up to February 19th, 1926 ).

In 1926 and 1927, Gosden and Correll also recorded some of their Sam ' n ' Henry routines for Victor Records ( rewritten and shortened to about three minutes ), and in the first two months of 1927, they performed as Sam ' n ' Henry in at least three Chicago theaters.

* Sam ' n ' Henry ( 1926 ) scripts

* Sam Wadsworth, England international footballer 1922 – 1926, was captain of the England team and a member of the Huddersfield Town team which won a hat-trick of Football League Championships in 1923 – 4, 1924 – 5 and 1925 – 6.

* Sam Fife ( 1926 – 1979 )

Skinner's Raisin Bran was the first brand on the market, introduced in the United States in 1926 by U. S. Mills, best known for the similar Uncle Sam Cereal.

In 1926, WGN broadcast Sam & Henry, a daily serial with comic elements created and performed by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

In May 1926, through the company's partnership with Western Electric, Sam formed a subsidiary known as Vitaphone, Through Vitaphone, the studio released a series of musical shorts and the feature-length " Don Juan " ( which had a synchronized music track ); upon establishing Vitaphone, Sam was also made Vice President of Warner Bros. as well.

This allegation, leveled in 1977, was never corroborated, and Demarest's reliability was questioned because of his long dependence on alcohol ; the last time that Sam would meet with his entire family was at his parent's wedding anniversary in 1926.

Sam easily accepted Zukor's offer, but the offer died after Paramount lost money in the wake of Rudolph Valentino's death in late 1926.

The Western Jewish News was founded in 1926 by Sam Berg and enganged in a fierce fight for advertising with the Post for the next six decades until it was purchased by The Jewish Post in 1986, resulting in the paper's current name of The Jewish Post & News.