WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1926
Find out what all happened January to November 1926

The College Board administers the first SAT exam. (23. June 1926)

History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. (16. March 1926)

The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations. (15. November 1926)

Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film. (20. April 1926)

Brazil leaves the League of Nations (14. June 1926)

Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures. (31. October 1926)

The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years. (24. April 1926)

The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed. (25. September 1926)

J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death. (22. October 1926)

UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends. (12. May 1926)

Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. (4. July 1926)

The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition. (15. March 1926)

Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. (24. October 1926)

George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize." (18. November 1926)

Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928. (12. January 1926)

The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. (12. May 1926)

Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). (6. April 1926)

El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded. (14. March 1926)

Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.) (9. May 1926)

The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published. (14. October 1926)