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October 14 – Poland presents President Calvin Coolidge with a 111 volume gift called a "Polish Declaration of Admiration and Friendship for the United States of America" comprising some 15,000 bound sheets with the signatures of an estimated 5,500,000 Polish citizens on the occasion of America's 150th anniversary of independence.
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1926 – NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network; 1926 – United States intervenes in Nicaragua; 1926 – Opportunity Magazine publishes Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues; 1926 – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is published.
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
The best-selling British book The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764–1765 by Cleone Knox, supposedly an eighteenth-century diary unearthed and published for the first time in 1925, was exposed as a hoax.
1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.