In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.

* 26 March-The Sabie Game Reserve ( renamed to Kruger National Park in 1926 ) is proclaimed in the Official Gazette of the South African Republic, the first of its kind in Africa

" Instead of coaching his 1926 team against Carnegie Tech, Rockne traveled to Chicago for the Army – Navy Game to " write newspaper articles about it, as well as select an All-America football team.

Babe Ruth accomplishing the feat twice-in 1926 and 1928 ( both in Game 4 ).

Among the British at the 1926 landmark match were golfing giants Abe Mitchell, George Duncan, Archie Compston, Ted Ray ( portrayed by Stephen Marcus in the 2005 film The Greatest Game Ever Played ), and Arthur Havers.

Following this, he starred in It's The Old Army Game ( 1926 ) which featured his friend Louise Brooks, later to become a screen legend for her role in G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box in Germany.

" This park would later be known as the Sabi Game Reserve and was expanded into the Kruger National Park in 1926.

After the proclamation of the Kruger National Park in 1926, the first three tourist cars entered the park in 1927, jumping to 180 cars in 1928 and 850 cars in 1929. Warden James Stevenson-Hamilton retired on 30 April 1946, after 44 years as warden of the Kruger Park and its predecessor, the Sabi Game Reserve.

* Hidden Hands ( 1926 ) as The Dangerous Game ( US )

* Over 100, 000 spectators attended the 1926 Army / Navy Game, this game would decide the national championship, as Navy entered undefeated and Army had lost only to Notre Dame.

Jerry Ross ( né Jerold Rosenberg March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955 ) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the " Best Musical " and " Best Composer and Lyricist " categories.

In 1926 the Stadium also became the home of the East-West Shrine Game.

* Bo Molenda: played for Michigan ( 1925 – 1926 ), head coach for Menlo College ( 1950 – 1969 ); also an assistant coach in professional football for the New York Giants 1936 – 1941 ( interim head coach for the 1939 NFL Championship Game ); Green Bay Packers ( 1947 – 1948 ); Chicago Hornets ( 1949 )

** Tish Plays the Game ( 1926 )

He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.

* 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist, former Federal Reserve chairman

From 1922 to 1926, Casey was the officer in charge of the Engineer Unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps ( ROTC ) at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Alan Greenspan (; born March 6, 1926 ) is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006.

* Alan Greenspan ( born 1926 ), 13th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

From 1921 to 1926 Warburg was a member of the advisory council of Federal Reserve Board, serving as president of the advisory council in 1924 – 26.

Work on less lavishly decorated public buildings followed in other cities in the years preceding his Federal Reserve Board commission, including Detroit ( 1922 ), Hartford ( 1926 ), Indianapolis ( 1928 ), and Fort Worth ( 1932 ).

In 1926, the U. S. Department of the Navy established the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps.

* Alan Greenspan ( born 1926 ), economist, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

* Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan ( 1926 -)

He graduated from Princeton in 1926 with a varsity letter in pistol and an Reserve Officers ' Training Corps ( ROTC ) commission, and was called to duty in World War II as a reservist.

The discovery of the Yates Oil Field in adjacent Pecos County in 1926 converted Rankin into a boom town.

In 1926, Governor Pinchot proposed his quasi-public " Giant Power " scheme for the state of Pennsylvania – which was very similar to Charles Steinmetz's plan to transmit electricity by high-voltage lines from power plants located adjacent to Pennsylvania coal mines – critics dismissed it as socialism.

The Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases was founded and in 1926 established at Bath House, a grand house with keeper's lodge and large grounds adjacent to Tibbet's Corner at Putney Heath.

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre opened on 23 April 1932 on the site adjacent to the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre ( opened 19 April 1879 ), which had been destroyed by fire on 6 March 1926, whose name it took.

The modern town was founded in 1889, and expanded in 1906 and 1926 by merging with adjacent villages.

In 1926, the zoo was expanded to adjacent lands, increasing the area to.

In 1926, Byrd purchased Rosemont, an estate outside Berryville, adjacent to the family apple orchards.

The complex's total area expanded with the addition of each new facility and now takes up the entire SE quadrant of the grounds occupied in 1926 by Philadelphia's Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, a massive 184-day World's Fair built on 700 + acres of until then largely undeveloped city owned swamp and park land ( including League Island Park ) adjacent to the U. S. Navy Yard bounded by 10th Street, Packer Ave., 23rd Street, and Terminal Avenue.

The first was the 1923 Millard House in Pasadena, where Lloyd designed the grounds, and contributed an adjacent studio building in 1926.

The plant was set up in 1926 by a consortium including William Morris and the Budd Company of America and was adjacent to the Morris Motors factory.

In August 1926, a tomb was discovered near the Xarolla Windmill, and from further investigations done on the 6th of the same month, it was determined that the tomb had already been touched and relics taken away, but there were still some pottery dating back to 200 A. D. Today these Paleo-Christian tombs are being excavated to their full extent after adjacent tombs were discovered in 1995, which now indicates a burial area of a larger size which could only belong to a large settlement in the area.

In 1926, the Gas Light and Coke Company opened Watson House adjacent to Nine Elms Gas Works.

Things took a turn for the better, however, when in 1926, the Federal Capital Commission constructed a new golf course on an adjacent site at Acton, where the Canberra Golf Club had its first real home.

After the opening of a loop at Charing Cross ( Embankment ) in 1914 ( replaced in 1926 by the present Kennington loop ) car ends were marked " A " or " B " ( later, when axles were designated by letters, the " B " car ends became " D " to match the adjacent axle ), and it was not permitted to couple cars together if the ends to be coupled bore the same letter.

" Sales to golf courses, turf farms and flower growers began in 1926.

After spending a year in Hungary, Von Pannwitz went to Poland in 1926, where he lived and worked as an administrator of farms, at the last in charge of the estates of Princess Radziwill in Mlochow, near Warsaw.