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.

According to some, the first consistent, verified, and scientifically convincing attainment of the Pole was on 12 May 1926, by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his US sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from the airship Norge.

1926 ); 18, 000 pages containing most of TR's speeches, books and essays, but not his letters ; a CD-ROM edition is available ; some of TR's books are available online through Project Bartleby

During the 1920s, some members of Congress revived the codification project, resulting in the approval of the United States Code by Congress in 1926.

* November 10 – Enthronement ceremony of Japanese Emperor Hirohito is held, after some two years since he actually took the Imperial throne on December 26, 1926, the following day of the demise of Emperor Taishō.

Though Fox's work has now been to some extent revised, it remains a vital record of stretches of the Dyke that still existed between 1926 and 1928, when his three field surveys took place, but that are now destroyed.

During a lull in the intra-party fighting in the spring of 1926, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters gravitated closer to Trotsky's supporters and the two groups soon formed an alliance, which also incorporated some smaller opposition groups within the Communist Party.

During a lull in the intra-party fighting in the spring of 1926, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters gravitated closer to Trotsky's supporters and the two groups soon formed an alliance, which also incorporated some smaller opposition groups within the Communist Party.

Meeting of the international Esperanto leaders, in 1926 in the Swiss town of Locarno ( some months after the famous Locarno Conference of the European political leaders )

The original Paramount release was color tinted and had some sequences in an early widescreen process known as Magnascope, also used in the Paramount film Old Ironsides ( 1926 ).

In 1956, Hrabal married Eliška Plevová (' Pipsi ' to Hrabal, and in some of his works ), the 30-year-old ( b. 3 May 1926 ) daughter of Karel Pleva, a procurator and manager of a wood factory in the South Moravian town of Břeclav.

A bronze statuette dubbed the " Dancing Girl ", high and some 4, 500 years old, was found in Mohenjo-daro in 1926.

“ It was called the Rattler Club when I got here in 1926, and I ’ m not sure how it got its nickname ,” he said, although his stories of the club members ’ antics and efforts to raise school spirit would certainly “ rattle ” some and “ shake ” up others.

Curtiz arrived in the United States in 1926 ( according to some sources on the fourth of July, but according to others in June ).

The Maroons posted some of the best records in the NFL during the 1925 and 1926 seasons.

Col. Townsend initially opposed the effort, but after some wavering, sold at base price of his Little River Lumber tract in 1926 to what would eventually become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Some by the performers for whom they were written, such as the concertos for piano ( 1939 ), violin ( 1955 ) and cello ( 1970 ); some by literary and theatrical partners, such as the film music, ballets, cantatas and The Olympians ; some by painters, such as the Serenade and the Metamorphic Variations ; some by classical literature, such as Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ), The Enchantress and Pastoral.

Before the introduction of Fermi – Dirac statistics in 1926, understanding some aspects of electron behavior was difficult due to seemingly contradictory phenomena.

The year 1926 in television involved some significant events.

As the strike started to crumble, miners at Denton Colliery remained steadfast, not returning to work until November 5, 1926, some 6 weeks and one day after their colleagues at the nearby Ashton Moss Colliery, the only other significant colliery left in Tameside at that time.

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.

However, some undoubtedly " gentle " families of long descent never obtained official rights to bear a coat of arms, the family of Strickland being an example, which caused some consternation when Lord Strickland applied to join the Order of Malta in 1926 and could prove no right to a coat of arms, although his direct male ancestor had carried the English royal banner of St. George at the Battle of Agincourt.

The term " holism " was coined in 1926 by Jan Christian Smuts, a South African general and polarizing historical figure who was inspired by Clements ' superorganism concept.

The International African Institute ( IAI ) was founded ( as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures ) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages.

* 1926 – Joe Slovo, South African politician ( d. 1995 )

Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois.

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.

In October 1926, Goldkette's " Famous Fourteen ," as they came to be called, opened at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City opposite the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, one of the East Coast's outstanding African American big bands.

In 1926 Dr. William M. Watts ( pictured left ) opened a 22-bed hospital facility to provide in-patient care to Oakland's citizens of African descent who were not welcome at other health care institutions.

In 1926, he founded the Étoile Nord-Africaine ( North African Star ) party, to which Messali Hadj, also a member of the PCF and of its affiliated trade union, the Confédération générale du travail unitaire ( CGTU ), joined the following year.

* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match

Based on that of the Dalmatian, the standard was approved by the South African Kennel Union in 1926.

Based on that of the Dalmatian, it was approved in 1926 by the South African Kennel Union.

The term holism was coined in 1926 by Jan Smuts, a South African statesman, in his book, Holism and Evolution.

McKinney's Cotton Pickers were an African American jazz band founded in Detroit in 1926 by William McKinney, who expanded his Synco Septet to ten pieces.

The group was originally a solidarity group formed in 1926 in Paris to coordinate political activity among North African workers in France and to defend " the material, moral, and social interests of North African Muslims ".

Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926.

Abel Nguéndé Goumba ( September 18, 1926 – May 11, 2009 ) was a Central African political figure.

He was born in 1926 in Grimari, Ouaka Prefecture in the Oubangi-Chari French colony, which is now the Central African Republic.

In 1926, Rabearivelo married Mary Razafitrimo, an African photographer's daughter, together they had five children.

!, a 1926 African American literary magazine

* Salty du Rand ( b. 1926 ) South African rugby player