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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.
Events from the year 1926 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government ... March 8 – Dick Teed, Major League Baseball player (d. 2014) March 9 – Joe ...
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.
1926 was a common year ... though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, ... Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2014)
July 13: Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated and reinstated as a major in the French Army; the Dreyfus affair ends. August 16: An earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile, magnitude 8.2, kills 20,000. September 28: The US begins the Second Occupation of Cuba. October 23: Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off and flies his 14-bis to a crowd in Paris.
In 1926, the electric garage door opener was invented by C.G. Johnson, the inventor of the garage door and founder of the Overhead Door Corporation. [178] 1926 Power steering. Power steering is a system for reducing the steering effort on vehicles by using an external power source to assist in turning the roadwheels.
Somali Civil War, since 1988 The United Nations intervenes in the Somali Civil War, July 27, 1992 – March 3, 1995 The United States leads the Unified Task Force, December 9, 1992 – May 4, 1993; The United States deploys independent Task Force Ranger, August 8, 1993 – March 31, 1994 Battle of Mogadishu, October 3–4, 1993
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history