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The following events occurred in May 1926:

May 26, 1926: Rif Republic leader Abd el-Krim surrenders to French Army
May 31, 1926: U.S. Sesquicentennial Exhibition opens in Philadelphia

Saturday, May 1, 1926

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  • The lockout of 800,000 British coal miners began.[1]
  • Five people were killed and 28 injured in fighting between socialists and communists during May Day events in Warsaw, Poland.[2]
  • Swinton defeated Oldham 9–3 in the Challenge Cup Final of rugby.[3]

Sunday, May 2, 1926

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  • Civil war broke out in Nicaragua.
  • Women in India are allowed to stand for election to public office.[4]

Monday, May 3, 1926

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Tuesday, May 4, 1926

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Wednesday, May 5, 1926

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Thursday, May 6, 1926

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  • Limited services returned around Britain as volunteers and strike-breaking workers stepped in, notably to help distribute food and provide other necessities.[8]
  • Born: Edward Clark, American painter, in Storyville, New Orleans (d. 2019)

Friday, May 7, 1926

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  • With peace talks having failed, French warplanes bombed Rif Republic positions as the Rif War resumed.[9]
  • In the Soviet Union, Léon Theremin demonstrated his experimental television system which electrically transmitted and then projected near-simultaneous moving images on a five-foot square screen as part of his thesis.[10]

Saturday, May 8, 1926

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Baldwin

Sunday, May 9, 1926

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Byrd and Bennett
  • Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claimed 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 were immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time.[13] An entry in Byrd's diary discovered in 1996 suggested that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole due to an oil leak.[14]
  • Although Britain was quiet in light of the Sabbath, soldiers were becoming an increasingly common sight in the streets of London.[15]
  • Died: J. M. Dent, 76, British publisher

Monday, May 10, 1926

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Tuesday, May 11, 1926

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Wednesday, May 12, 1926

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The Norge
 
Pilsudski and his aides

Thursday, May 13, 1926

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  • The Polish government held negotiations with Marshal Piłsudski. No agreement was reached and fighting broke out around 19:00 hours.
  • Britain started to return to normal on the first day back from the general strike, though many transport services were late in their resumption. Voluntary workers were still keeping buses and trains running.[22] Miners remained locked out.

Friday, May 14, 1926

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Saturday, May 15, 1926

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Sunday, May 16, 1926

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Monday, May 17, 1926

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Wilhelm Marx

Tuesday, May 18, 1926

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Wednesday, May 19, 1926

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Thursday, May 20, 1926

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Friday, May 21, 1926

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Saturday, May 22, 1926

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Sunday, May 23, 1926

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Monday, May 24, 1926

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Tuesday, May 25, 1926

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Petlura

Wednesday, May 26, 1926

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Thursday, May 27, 1926

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Friday, May 28, 1926

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Gomes da Costa leading the uprising

Saturday, May 29, 1926

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  • The military coup in Braga spread to the rest of Portugal. The Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship) was established.
  • Born: Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal 2000 to 2012; in Kébémer (alive in 2024)

Sunday, May 30, 1926

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Monday, May 31, 1926

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Not an hour on the day, not 1d off the pay!". Tamworth Herald. April 26, 2013. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  2. ^ "5 Slain, 28 Hurt in Warsaw Red Labor Day Fray". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 2, 1926. p. 1.
  3. ^ "Challenge Cup 1925/26". Rugby League Project. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  4. ^ Mercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. pp. 342–343. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
  5. ^ "What was the General Strike of 1926?". BBC. June 19, 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  6. ^ "Strike On; London is 'Dead'". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 4, 1926. p. 1.
  7. ^ McNab, Robert (2004). Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 163. ISBN 0-300-10431-6.
  8. ^ "General Strike – Diary 6th May". Woolf Online. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  9. ^ "French Reopen War; Airplanes Bomb Riffians". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 8, 1926. p. 6.
  10. ^ Glinsky, Albert (2000). Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. pp. 41–45. ISBN 0-252-02582-2.
  11. ^ "General Strike – Diary 8th May". Woolf Online. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  12. ^ "1925–26 Championship Final". Wigan Warriors Rugby League Fansite. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  13. ^ Thompson, Andrea (April 15, 2013). "Did Admiral Byrd Fly Over The North Pole Or Not?". LiveScience. Purch. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  14. ^ "May 9, 1926: Byrd flies over the North Pole?". This Day in History. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  15. ^ "General Strike – Diary 9th May". Woolf Online. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  16. ^ Bronstein, Jon; Harris, Andrew (2012). Empire, State and Society: Britain Since 1830. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-4051-8180-8.
  17. ^ "The Legality of the General Strike in England", A. L. Goodhart The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Feb., 1927), pp. 464–485
  18. ^ "General Strike – Diary 11th May". Woolf Online. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  19. ^ "The "Norge" Flight Avross the Arctic (1926)". Fram Museum. Archived from the original on 2014-12-03. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  20. ^ "General Strike – Diary 12th May". Woolf Online. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  21. ^ Clingan, C. Edmund (2010). The Lives of Hans Luther, 1879–1962. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-7391-3641-6.
  22. ^ "The Change-Over". The Evening Standard. London: 1. April 13, 1926.
  23. ^ Grimley, Naomi (November 24, 2014). "The mysterious disappearance of a celebrity preacher". BBC News. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  24. ^ "Druze Revolt of 1925 – 27 and French Air Power". Colonial Warfare 1880–1975. December 20, 2010. Archived from the original on 2014-10-18. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  25. ^ Hymans, Paul (October 1930). "Belgium's Position in Europe". Foreign Affairs (October 1930). Council on Foreign Relations. doi:10.2307/20030328. JSTOR 20030328. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  26. ^ a b "Chronology 1926". indiana.edu. 2002. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  27. ^ "Rogers Hornsby". Baseball Library. The Idea Logical Company. 2006. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  28. ^ "May 22, 1926, Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals". Baseball-Reference.com.
  29. ^ "Sword Rattling – German "Reds" Parade". The Northern Star. Lismore, New South Wales: 5. May 26, 1926. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  30. ^ "Romania (1904–present)". University of Central Arkansas. Retrieved January 3, 2015.[permanent dead link]
  31. ^ "Coolidge Signs Bill for New Buildings." New York Times. May 26, 1926.