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| 1925 |
| | | African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1926 |
| | | English potter Michael Cardew sets up a studio at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire | |
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| 1926 |
| | | John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel publishes a collection of stories, Red Cavalry, based on his own experiences in the army | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Soldiers Pay is the first published novel of the Mississippi author William Faulkner | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Miners go on strike in Britain in protest against employers' attempts to reduce wages | |
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| 1926 |
| | | French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The Counterfeiters | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns | |
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| 1926 |
| | | T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising | |
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| 1926 |
| | | A general strike begins in Britain in support of the striking miners | |
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| 1926 |
| | | To explain the irregular movement of stars, Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad proposes the theory that our galaxy rotates | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days | |
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| 1926 |
| | | 19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh | |
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| 1926 |
| | | British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington compares mass and luminosity in The Internal Constitution of the Stars | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Leos Janacek completes his powerfully scored orchestral work Sinfonietta | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Eamon de Valera's faction, Fianna Fáil (Warriors of Ireland), enters mainstream Irish life as a political party | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) is established by the Nazi party for teenage boys | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Germany joins the League of Nations, with a permanent seat on the council | |
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| 1926 |
| | | 25-year-old Hirohito succeeds to the imperial throne of Japan after five years as prince regent | |
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| 1926 |
| | | A coup in Portugal brings in a military dictatorship, in which general António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona soon emerges as the leader | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Franz Kafka's novel The Castle is published posthumously | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, has a synchronized musical score, making it the earliest example of a film with a sound track | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Dorothy Parker has a best-seller with her first collection of verse, Enough Rope | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Russian World War I pilot Sergey Ilyushin begins a distinguished career as an aircraft designer | |
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| 1926 |
| | | The England cricketer Jack Hobbs makes the highest score of his career, 316 not out for Surrey against Middlesex | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Jelly Roll Morton and his new group of seven, the Red Hot Peppers, record their first classic, Black Bottom Stomp | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Ely Culbertson devotes his playing skill and his promotional abilities to the new contract version of bridge | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry J´nos has its first performance in Budapest | |
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