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May 1926

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

4. The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.

General Strike March

8. Birth. Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist, and producer

9. Explorer Richard E Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in such a short time. Byrd’s diary, discovered in 1996, suggests the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.

9. Death. JM Dent, British publisher (b.1849)

12. Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over the North Pole, in the airship Norge.

12. The United Kingdom general strike is called off by the trade unions, although miners remain on strike.

14. Birth. Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d.1984)

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April 1926

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

1. Birth. Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d.2011)

2. Birth. Jack Brabham, Australian racing driver (d.2014)

3. Birth. Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d.1967)

6. Birth. Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d.2014)

7. An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.

9. Birth. Hugh Hefner, American founder of Playboy magazine (d.2017)

Hugh Hefner and blonde

21. Birth. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (d.2022)

30. A state of emergency is proclaimed in the United Kingdom under the Emergency Powers Act 1920 on account of the “threat of cessation of work in Coal Mines”.

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March 1926

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

6. Birth. Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman

16. Robert H Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts .

23. Éamon de Valera organises the political party Fianna Fáil in Ireland.

31. Birth. John Fowles, English writer (d.2005)

John Fowles

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February 1926

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

1. Death. Theodosius of Skopje, Bulgaria Orthodox religious leader and saint (b.1846)

2. Birth. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of France (d.2020)

9. Birth. Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d.2011)

10. Birth. Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer, football manager (d.1993)

11. Birth. Paul Bocuse, French chef (d.2018)

14. Death. John Jacob Bausch, German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b.1830)

16. Birth. John Schlesinger, British film director (d.2003)

22. Birth. Kenneth Williams, English actor (d.1988)

Kenneth Williams

25. Francisco Franco becomes General in Spain.

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January 1926

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

13. Birth. Michael Bond, English fiction writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d.2017)

16. A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers’ revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.

Early BBC logo

26. Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.

29. Birth. Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (d.1996)