Unlike many artists who were " discovered " and recorded in their normal venues, in December 1925 or January 1926, he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, to record his first tracks.

The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by which the British parliament renounced any legislative authority over dominion affairs, except as specifically provided in law.

Claude Monet () ( 14 November 18405 December 1926 ) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery.

In April 1926 Zinoviev was removed from the Politburo and in December, Trotsky lost his membership too.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

Ettore Ximenes ( April 11, 1855, Palermo – December 20, 1926, Rome ) was an Italian sculptor of mostly religious and mythological subjects.

Edwin Abbott Abbott ( 20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926 ), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland ( 1884 ).

Agatha Christie disappeared on 3 December 1926 only to reappear eleven days later in a hotel in Harrogate, apparently with no memory of the events which happened during that time span.

It was shot from December 1925 to January 1926 and premiered in April.

A formative event was his singing performance at his school's annual Speech Night in December 1926 – none of his family were present, and the sense of loneliness he felt that night remained with him throughout his life.

The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.

His son Chris Lemmon ( b. 1954 ), was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone ( b. February 26, 1926, Peoria, Illinois, d. December 26, 1988 ).

Lars Magnus Ericsson ( 5 May 1846 – 17 December 1926 ) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson ( incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson ).

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

He led the Antarctic expedition ( 1910-12 ) to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he was the first expedition leader to ( undisputedly ) reach the North Pole in 1926.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (; 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 ), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet.

Open-eyed, he died in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926 in the Valmont Sanatorium in Switzerland.

On December 25, 1926, Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrated a television system with a 40-line resolution that employed a CRT display at Hamamatsu Industrial High School in Japan.

He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926 ; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930 ; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948.

* December 17 – A democratically elected government is overthrown during the 1926 Lithuanian coup d ' état ; Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania.

* December 6 – Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the National Football League ( b. 1926 )

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

Two days later, on 19 December 1967, the government made an official announcement that Holt was presumed dead.

The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Two: Europe, Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943.

Two more military dictators followed by December 1949.

Two French aid workers were killed on December 4 that same year.

* Stuart Asquith Wargaming World War Two, Special Interest Model Books ; New edition edition ( 31 December 1998 ) ISBN 978-1-85486-000-2

* December 12 – Merger of the thrones of Sicily and Naples into the throne of the Two Sicilies under Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.

* 27 December: Two IDF soldiers and two yeshiva students were killed in an attack on the Hesder yeshiva ( military religious academy ) of Otniel.

Two identical reactors, D Reactor and F reactor, came online in December 1944 and February 1945, respectively.

Two festivals, called Faunalia, were celebrated in his honour — one on the 13th of February, in the temple of Faunus on the island in the Tiber, the other on the 5th of December, when the peasants brought him rustic offerings and amused themselves with dancing ( Peck 1898 ).

Two years later on December 6, 1875, the county's name was shortened to " Clay " by the Arkansas General Assembly ; though some sources say it was renamed for the legendary statesman Henry Clay, others say John M. Clayton remained its official namesake.

* December 15, 1997: Stamps, Arkansas Two students wounded.

Two accounts, published in the 1640s, one in Spanish, one in Nahuatl, tell how, while walking from his village to Mexico City in the early morning of December 9, 1531 ( then the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the Spanish Empire ), the peasant Juan Diego saw on the slopes of the Hill of Tepeyac a vision of a girl of fifteen or sixteen years of age, surrounded by light.

Two endings were written for the play, the original as seen in December 1920 ( and the ending that won Gale the Pulitzer Prize from Drama ; the first woman ever to do so ) has Lulu starting a life on her own and undertaking adventures of her own as we hear in her final lines, " Good-by.

The final special, and Barker's final appearance on TV-The Two Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook-was recorded in July 2005 as a result of Barker's failing health and aired posthumously in December.

In 1925-6 Two Worlds began to publish redrafted versions of previously published fragments, starting with " Here Comes Everybody " in December 1925, and then " Anna Livia Plurabelle " ( March 1926 ), " Shem the Penman " ( June 1926 ), and " Mamalujo " ( September 1925 ), all under the title " A New Unnamed Work ".

On 29 December 2009, she was the subject of an entire evening's tribute programming on BBC Two.

Two days later, the film premiered in New York City, and then on December 1 in Los Angeles.

Two photos depicting the boom of growth in Van Nuys between February and December 1911

Two of those four dissenters ( Justices Breyer and Souter ) acknowledged that the counting up until December 9 had not conformed with Equal Protection requirements.

Two years later, in December 1974, the firm finally attracted its first index client.

Two seasons aired on MOJO HD before the network went down on December 1, 2008 ; a third season was filmed but has gone unaired.

Two local festivals attract visitors from far and wide: the Spirit of Christmas, always held in early December.