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

* 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

The first commercial airmail flight in the United States passed through this airfield on April 26, 1926, carried by Varney Airlines.

Varney Air Lines was an airline company that started service on April 6, 1926 as an air-mail carrier.

The Tri-Cities Airport ( then the Pasco Airport ) was site of the first air mail contract flight between Elko, Nevada and Pasco, Washington made by Varney Airlines, ( later United Airlines ) in 1926.

MSP was the main base for Northwest Airlines starting in 1926, and became the main base of regional carrier North Central Airlines in 1952.

Pan American Airlines was founded in Key West, originally to fly visitors to Havana, in 1926.

Chalk's International Airlines maintained a seaplane base on Watson Island from 1926 until it ceased operation in 2007.

Category: Airlines established in 1926

The first aircraft this company, Ryan Airlines, produced was called the Ryan M-1 mail plane developed in 1926. It was the first production monoplane in the country.

Ryan sold his half interest in their three companies: the ' Ryan Flying Company '; ' The San Diego-Los Angeles Airlines '; and ' Ryan Airlines ' to his business partner, B. F. " Frank " Mahoney on November 23, 1926, and was kept on the payroll until the end of that year.

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.

* Robert Goddard makes the first flight of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.

In 1926 he composed The Night of Loveless Nights, a lyric poem dealing with solitude curiously written in classic quatrains, which makes it more like Baudelaire than Breton.

From 1892 until 1926 the Bellerive-Sorell Railway had its terminus on a long jetty which extended into the Bay on reclaimed land which now makes up part of the boardwalk.

* The Broadcasting Authority Act 1960 ( established RTÉ and makes amendments to the 1926 Act in relation to television and interference )

He also never became a Jewish nationalist of any kind ; quite the contrary, he was ideologically disposed against it, but in 1926 he confessed, " Zionism makes a strong emotional appeal to me, chiefly as a manifestation of awakening national self respect of the Jewish people.

* November 14, 1926: The Chief makes its initial run from both ends of the line, simultaneously.

With de Broglie's suggestion of the existence of electron matter waves in 1924, and for a short time before the full 1926 Schrödinger equation treatment of hydrogen like atom, a Bohr electron " wavelength " could be seen to be a function of its momentum, and thus a Bohr orbiting electron was seen to orbit in a circle at a multiple of its half-wavelength ( this historically incorrect Bohr model is still occasionally taught to students ).

The Miraculous Mandarin, a modern story of prostitution, robbery, and murder, was started in 1918, but not performed until 1926 because of its sexual content.

The company inaugurated its neo-gothic Buenos Aires headquarters on Leandro Alem Avenue, designed by local architect Pablo Naeff, in 1926.

The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Balfour, drew up the document preparatory to its unanimous approval by the imperial premiers on November 15, 1926.

After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

Founded in 1926 as the Conservative Party, Iceland's Independence Party adopted its current name in 1929.

It built its studio lot in Burbank in 1926.

In 1926, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. introduced the " Vitaphone " system, producing short films of live entertainment acts and public figures and adding recorded sound effects and orchestral scores to some of its major features.

In 1926, Kodak lowered the price of panchromatic stock to parity with its orthochromatic offering and the panchromatic stock began to overtake the orthochromatic stock's market share within a few years.

This allowed the team to take part in its first regional tournament, which until 1926, was the qualifying stage for the national title.

Wallerscote was built in 1926, its construction delayed by the First World War, and became one of the largest factories devoted to a single product ( soda ash ) in the world.

He wrote eleven books, including Recent Advances in Physiology ( 1905 ); Diabetes: its Pathological Physiology ( 1925 ); and Carbohydrate Metabolism and Insulin ( 1926 ).

When Prohibition was repealed in Ontario in 1926, just 15 breweries remained and only Labatt retained its original management.

Modern Lebanon's constitution, drawn up in 1926, specified a balance of power between the various religious groups, but France designed it to guarantee the political dominance of its Christian allies.

Among its successes were its fight against the international trade in opium and sexual slavery, and its work to alleviate the plight of refugees, particularly in Turkey in the period up to 1926.

However by 1924, considerable economic progress had been achieved and by 1926 the economy regained its 1913 production level.

Under its French name Parme, it was also created a duché grand-fief de l ' Empire for Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, the Emperor's Arch-Treasurer, on 24 April 1808 ( extinguished 1926 ).

In 1926, Pepsi received its first logo redesign since the original design of 1905.

The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of docufiction, e. g. with Moana ( 1926 ), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran ( 1934 ), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands.

By 1926 the market for commercial radio had expanded, and RCA purchased the WEAF and WCAP radio stations and networks from AT & T, merged them with its WJZ ( the predecessor of WABC ) New York to WRC ( presently WTEM ) Washington chain, and formed the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ).

An attempt to strengthen executive powers in 1926 ( through the August Amendment ) proved too limited and largely failed in helping avoid legislative grid-lock which had ensued as a result of too-great parliamentary power in a state which had numerus diametrically-opposed political parties sitting in its legislature.