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April 12 – By a vote of 45–41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart has served for over one year. [ 1 ] April 30 – African-American pilot Bessie Coleman is killed after falling 2,000 feet (610 m) from an airplane.
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.
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Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States. 1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933.
1926–1933: Nicaragua: From May 7 to June 5, 1926, and August 27, 1926, to January 3, 1933, the coup d'état of General Emiliano Chamorro Vargas aroused revolutionary activities leading to the landing of American marines to protect the interests of the United States. United States forces came and went intermittently until January 3, 1933.
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The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Charles S. McDowell (until January 17), William C. Davis (starting January 17); Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Harvey Parnell (starting month and day unknown)