What Happened In April 1926 In History

Historical Events for April, 1926

• 6th » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• 20th » Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
• 24th » The Treaty of Berlin (1926) e.g 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.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1926

• 1st » Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
• 1st » Gérard La Forest, Canadian judge and academic
• 1st » John Scott Martin, English actor (d. 2009)
• 1st » Anne McCaffrey, American-Irish author (d. 2011)
• 2nd » Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d. 2014)
• 2nd » Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer (d. 2006)
• 3rd » Timothy Bateson, English actor (d. 2009)
• 3rd » Alex Grammas, American baseball player, manager, and coach
• 3rd » Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1967)
• 4th » Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (d. 2010)
• 4th » Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress (d. 2014)
• 5th » Roger Corman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 5th » Süleyman Seba, Turkish footballer (d. 2014)
• 6th » Sergio Franchi, Italian-American singer and actor (d. 1990)
• 6th » Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 6th » Ian Paisley, Irish minister and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 2014)
• 7th » Prem Nazir, Indian actor (d. 1989)
• 8th » Henry N. Cobb, American architect, co-founded Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
• 8th » Shecky Greene, American actor
• 8th » Shirley Mills, American actress (d. 2010)
• 8th » Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic
• 9th » Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises
• 10th » Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (d. 2014)
• 10th » Junior Samples, American actor (d. 1983)
• 11th » Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 2011)
• 11th » Ernest Chapman, Australian rower (d. 2013)
• 11th » Gervase de Peyer, English clarinet player and conductor
• 11th » Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2007)
• 13th » Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
• 13th » John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman
• 14th » Barbara Anderson (writer) e.g Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (d. 2013)
• 14th » Frank Daniel, Czech director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 14th » Liz Renay, American actress and author (d. 2007)
• 15th » Maurice Shock, English academic
• 16th » Pierre Fabre (businessman) e.g Pierre Fabre, French pharmacist, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (d. 2013)
• 17th » Joan Lorring, Hong Kong-American actress (d. 2014)
• 17th » Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
• 18th » Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994)
• 19th » Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (d. 1997)
• 21st » Elizabeth II of The United Kingdom
• 21st » Keith Davey, Canadian politician (d. 2011)
• 21st » Robin Ibbs, English banker
• 21st » Arthur Rowley, English footballer, cricketer, and manager (d. 2002)
• 22nd » Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer
• 22nd » James Stirling (architect) called James Stirling, Scottish architect, designed the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Seeley Historical Library (d. 1992)
• 23rd » J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author and playwright
• 23rd » Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (d. 1990)
• 23rd » Richard Laws, English mammalogist and academic
• 24th » Thorbjörn Fälldin, Swedish farmer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Sweden
• 25th » Johnny Craig, American illustrator (d. 2001)
• 25th » Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
• 26th » David Coleman, English sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 26th » J. B. Hutto, American singer and guitarist (d. 1983)
• 26th » Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
• 27th » Tim LaHaye, American minister and author
• 27th » Basil Paterson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 27th » Alan Reynolds (artist) e.g Alan Reynolds, English painter
• 28th » Bill Blackbeard, American author (d. 2011)
• 28th » Harper Lee, American author
• 29th » Elmer Kelton, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
• 30th » Shrinivas Khale, Indian composer (d. 2011)
• 30th » Cloris Leachman, American actress and singer

Famous Deaths for April 1926

• 9th » Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
• 11th » Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
• 19th » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)

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