1926 Regis Rangers football team
The 1926 Regis Rangers football team was an American football team that represented Regis College as an independent during the 1926 college football season. The team compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 119 to 93. Tom McNamara was the head football coach.


1926 Rhode Island State Rams football team
The 1926 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as a member of the New England Conference during the 1926 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Frank Keaney, the team compiled a 1–6 record (0–3 against conference opponents) and finished in last place in the conference.


1926 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1926 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1926. Incumbent Republican Aram J. Pothier defeated Democratic nominee Joseph H. Gainer with 53.90% of the vote.


1926 Rice Owls football team
The 1926 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1926 college football season. In its third season under head coach John Heisman, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record (0–4 against SWC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 84 to 81.


1926 Richmond Spiders football team
The 1926 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented the University of Richmond as an independent during the 1926 college football season. Led by 13th-year head coach, Frank Dobson, the Spiders compiled a record of 2–7. Joe DeMotte played for Richmond. Richmond played their home games at Tate Field on Mayo Island.


1926 Rock Island Independents season
The 1926 Rock Island Independents season was their only season in the first American Football League, after jumping to the upstart league from the National Football League. The team finished 2–6 in league play and 2–7–2 overall, earning them seventh place in the league. The Independents struggled to bring in 5000 fans to its home games and later became a traveling team after having poor attendance in its first three games. The AFL folded after the 1926 and the Independents did not rejoin the NFL. They instead played as a minor, semi-pro team in 1927, then folded.


1926 Romanian general election
General elections were held in Romania in May and June 1926. The Chamber of Deputies was elected on 25 May, whilst the Senate was elected in two stages in May and 10 June. The result was a victory for the governing People's Party, which, together with the allied Romanian National Party (as revived by Vasile Goldiș), Magyar Party and German Party, won 292 of the 387 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 107 of the 115 seats in the Senate elected through universal male vote. With some exceptions, the Peasants' Party and the main branch of the National Party ran on common lists under the name of National Peasant Bloc.


1926 Rose Bowl
The 1926 Rose Bowl Game was held on January 1, 1926, in Pasadena, California. The game is commonly referred to as "The Game That Changed The South." The game featured the Alabama Crimson Tide, making their first bowl appearance, and the Washington Huskies.


1926 Rose Bowl
The Crimson Tide was led by Johnny Mack Brown. The Huskies by George "Wildcat" Wilson.


1926 Rose Bowl
Alabama were victorious 20–19, as they scored all twenty points in the third quarter. With the victory, the Crimson Tide were awarded with their first National Championship.


1926 Rose Bowl
The game made its radio broadcast debut, with Charles Paddock, a sports writer and former Olympian track star, at the microphone. Coach Wade was later inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1990.


1926 Rose Bowl
Johnny Mack Brown went on to a long career as a movie actor, mostly in westerns.


1926 Rose Bowl, Team selection
The Rose Bowl committee extended an invitation to Clark Shaughnessy's Tulane team, but the school administration declined the offer because it felt the players were too small to compete with those of Washington.


1926 Rutgers Queensmen football team
The 1926 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1926 college football season. In their third and final season under head coach John Wallace, the Queensmen compiled a 3–6 record and were outscored by their opponents, 134 to 49.


1926 SAFL Grand Final
The 1926 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sturt Football Club and the North Adelaide Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on the 26 October 1926.


1926 SAFL Grand Final
It was the 28th annual Grand Final of the South Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1926 SAFL season. The match, attended by 30,000 spectators, was won by Sturt by 13 points the margin, marking the club's third premiership victory.


1926 SAFL season
The 1926 South Australian Football League season was the 47th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


1926 SMU Mustangs football team
The 1926 SMU Mustangs football team was an American football team that represented the Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1926 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Ray Morrison, the team compiled an 8–0–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 229 to 47.


1926 SMU Mustangs football team
Coach Morrison brought the forward pass to the southwest during his time at SMU, using Gerald Mann as his passer.


1926 Saint Louis Billikens football team
The 1926 Saint Louis Billikens football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University during the 1926 college football season. In their first season under head coach Robert L. Mathews, the Billikens compiled a 3–6 record and were outscored by a total of 198 to 87. The team played its home games at St. Louis University Athletic Field and Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.


1926 Saint Mary's Gaels football team
The 1926 Saint Mary's Gaels football team was an American football team that represented Saint Mary's College of California during the 1926 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Slip Madigan, the Gaels compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out six opponents, won the Far Western Conference championship, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 242 to 27. The Gaels' victories including a 26-7 besting of California. The lone setback was a scoreless tie with Gonzaga.


1926 Saint Mary's Gaels football team
Two Saint Mary's players were selected by the Associated Press as members of the 1926 All-Pacific Coast football team: center Larry Bettencourt as a first-team player and halfback Jimmy Underhill as a second-team player. Bettencourt was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1926 Sammarinese general election
General elections were held in San Marino on 12 December 1926 to elect the eighth term of the Grand and General Council. It was a sham election, all opposition being prevented to participate by internal and Italian threats. After it had taken over the country in April 1923, the Sammarinese Fascist Party was the only party to contest the elections, winning all 60 seats, while the official report spoke of a sole dissident ballot. A new electoral law guaranteed safe undisputed seats to the two incumbent Captains Regents.


1926 Sammarinese general election, History
After the Patriotic Bloc victory in 1923, San Marino had effectively become a puppet of Fascist Italy.


1926 Sammarinese general election, History
The new electoral law of November 11, 1926, abolished universal suffrage to restore householders' ancient rights, established a copy of the Acerbo law, and extended the Council term to six years. More, even if this bloc voting system theorically allowed a small delegation of opposition candidates, Italian menaces prevented any other list outside the Sammarinese Fascist Party, which ran undisputed the snap election that was immediately called. San Marino consequently became a one-party state.


1926 Sammarinese general election, History
Benito Mussolini did not waste time to show his industriousness with propaganda goals, beginning the construction of a Rimini-San Marino railway which would become the visible symbol of his leadership over the small country.


1926 Sammarinese general election, Electoral system
Voters had to be citizens of San Marino, male, 24 years old and meet at least one of the following requirements:


1926 Samuel Huston Dragons football team
The 1926 Samuel Huston Dragons football team was an American football team that represented Samuel Huston College as mmeber of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1926 college football season. Led by first-year head coach William S. Taylor, Samuel Huston won the SWAC title with a mark of 5–0 in conference play.


1926 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 1926 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State Teachers College during the 1926 NCAA football season. San Diego State competed as a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in 1926. They had played as an Independent the previous year.


1926 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 1926 San Diego State team was led by head coach Charles E. Peterson in his sixth season as football coach of the Aztecs. They played home games at Navy "Sports" Field. The Aztecs finished the season with three wins, four losses and one tie (3–4–1, 1–3–1 SCIAC). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 78–150 points for the season.


1926 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 1926 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1926 college football season.


1926 San Jose State Spartans football team
San Jose State competed in the California Coast Conference (CCC). The team was led by third-year head coach Ernesto R. Knollin, and they played home games at Spartan Field in San Jose, California. The team finished the season with a record of one win, six losses and one tie (1–6–1, 0–5–1 CCC). The Spartans were outscored by their opponents 26–120 for the season, and were shut out in five of their eight games.


1926 San Sebastián Grand Prix
The 1926 San Sebastián Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Circuito Lasarte on 18 July 1926. It was also designated as the European Grand Prix.


1926 San Sebastián Grand Prix
It was the third race of the 1926 AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship season. The Delage 15 S 8 made its racing debut here but proved to be quite challenging to drive. The exhaust pipes of the Delage's passed beneath the floor where the drivers' feet were, causing them to gradually burn. The drivers had to take turns in the cars, in order to avoid serious injury.


1926 San Sebastián Grand Prix
As Robert Sénéchal was not listed as an official Delage reserve driver, after the race both cars he drove were disqualified, as well as the Bugatti driven by unofficial reserve driver Louis Dutilleux. However after an appeal to the AIACR Court of Appeals, these results were all reinstated as the officials had approved the driver changes during the race.


1926 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team
The 1926 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team represented Santa Barbara State during the 1926 college football season.


1926 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team
Santa Barbara State competed as an independent in 1926. Records may be incomplete, but six games have been documented. The Roadrunners were led by first-year head coach Dudley DeGroot and played home games at Peabody Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and four losses (2–4). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 27–101 for the season and was shut out in four of the six games.


1926 Santa Clara Broncos football team
The 1926 Santa Clara Broncos football team was an American football team that represented Santa Clara University during the 1926 college football season. In their second season under head coach Adam Walsh, the Broncos compiled a 5–4 record and were outscored by opponents by a total of 147 to 101.


1926 Santos FC season
The 1926 season was the fifteenth season for Santos FC.


1926 Saxony state election
The 1926 Saxony state election was held on 31 October 1926 to elect the 96 members of the Landtag of Saxony.


1926 Sewanee Tigers football team
The 1926 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1926 college football season. Guard and fullback Orin Helvey held Alabama to just two points.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike
From January 14 to February 26, 1926, all grades of the African workers within the Railway Department of the Sierra Leone Government participated in a strike. This strike represented the first time a trade union in Sierra Leone was effective in politically organizing with a set organizational structure. It is also the first strike and act of political disobedience in which the Creole elite identified with and supported the strikers and the working class against the British colonizing power.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Historical background
The financial situation in Sierra Leone in the mid-1920s following World War I was not dire. While the deficit for 1921 reached £343,171, by 1923, it was at a surplus of £116,926. The high unemployment rate after the war had gradually been reduced, but the wage rates of the majority of government artisan workers, throughout this improving economic situation, had remained stagnant. In 1919, this engendered a railway strike, where the railway workers tried to build alliances with other government workers and persuaded 2,000 workers of the police force to join them in a strike for higher wages.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Historical background
In order to make the railway more financially profitable, railway rates were increased in 1919 and subsequent years, which did not yield greater profits and raised food prices and those of goods transported via the railway. Thus, the working class conditions, which included the majority of the railway workers, did not improve. In another attempt at improving the financial efficiency of the railway in Sierra Leone, Colonel Hammond, a railway expert, was invited to inspect the Sierra Leone Railway in 1922 and 1924.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Historical background
Following Hammond's second visit, Governor Alexander Ransford Slater, approved a proposal by the general manager, G.R. Webb, imposing an efficiency bar examination for African clerks trying to qualify for salary increases. The attempt to introduce the examination was met by protest on the side of the clerks, who criticized the European staff being exempt from the examination and the failure to give Africans generally permanent appointments.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Historical background
This attempt at introducing a discriminatory policy by the government helped to unify middle class, white-collar Creole clerks, who might otherwise not have been such strong voices in the union, and more manual daily-wage laborers in their discontent and subsequent activism in the railway union. Artisans and clerks, part of the Railway Skilled Artisan Union, had regularly sent petitions to the railway administration. In March 1925, for example, they petitioned the general manager to introduce a grading system, in order to create more jobs and generate greater efficiency. The petitioners were met with contempt and discouragement by the administration, which promptly dismissed key workers for their "inefficiency."


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Historical background
In April 1925, this finally led to the Railway Workers Union being formed "for the improvement of the conditions of all members of the Railway Department." Its members spanned clerks, artisans, and others who joined and adopted the principle of collective responsibility. It was this union, the aligning of clerks and daily-paid workers, who otherwise would advocate separately for their interests, which channeled and articulated the grievances of its members.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Historical background
On January 12, 1926, at a meeting between the chief mechanical engineer, Malthus, and the president of the Railway Workers Union, the administration insisted on the efficiency bar exams and failed to address the workers' requests outlined in their petitions, which finally resulted in A.E. Richards, the workers' leader, verbally notifying the administration of the workers' intention to strike.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Union background and workers' involvement
On January 14, 1926, the strike officially began and the government, adopting a staunch resistance policy, placed Freetown under police and military surveillance, prohibiting te sale of intoxicating liquors for specific periods, etc. In the days that followed, starting on January 17, strikers were arrested for acts of violence and other perceived misconducts and on January 18 the railway management began dismissing many strikers from their posts.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Union background and workers' involvement
During the strike, the strikers employed different methods of revolt that included removing the rails in front of the general manager's train, removing the rails on curves or steep banks and at the approach to a bridge, pulling down telegraph poles and cutting wires, inhibiting telegraphic communication with the protectorate and other ways of showing their discontent. Nonetheless, applications to fill the posts of strikers who had been dismissed were opened, dismissals which contributed to a surplus of the already abundantly available labor force in Sierra Leone.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Union background and workers' involvement
Despite government claims about the damage incurred by the railway due to the strike, thirteen telegraphists from the Gold Coast, who arrived on January 20, helped maintain communication between Freetown and the rest of the colony, and volunteers maintained goods trains functioning. Governor Slater perceived the strike as a challenge to and revolt against colonial (civil) authority. On January 21, the Executive Council set the terms, which the strikers would have to abide by to return to the railway service:


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Union background and workers' involvement
The terms set forth by the Executive Council were communicated to the general manager on January 26, and conveyed to the workers in a meeting on January 27. The government insisted on the terms set out by the Executive Council on January 21, until the end of the strikes.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
In 1926, in contradistinction to the strike in 1919, the Creole intelligentsia, the majority of the municipality, openly supported the workers. This may also have been because, relevant to the dynamics of Anglo-Creole relations, the atmosphere was very racially charged during the time of the 1926 strikes, which underscored the racial division between the African workers and their mostly white industrial employers, more so than in 1919.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
At the turn of the century, thinly-veiled racialism evoked by the application of Darwin's evolutionary theory to scientifically establish the superiority of the white races, had solidified racial authority and given rise to particular dynamics between the colonizers and the colonized elite, where the colonizing Europeans did not disguise their contempt for the abilities of educated, though racially "inferior" Africans.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
After World War I, this yielded an increasing number of racially motivated instances of physical violence against Creole citizens which were seemingly condoned by the government; for example, the 1926 case of Barber, an African customs officer who was assaulted by an assistant district commissioner, A.H. Stocks, for alleged insolence (an incident also known as the Stocks affair). Other examples of the increasing divide between the Creole elites and the colonial authority include the racial segregation in Freetown due to establishing an exclusive European residential area at Hill Station in 1904 with its own railway.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
Thus, the racial discrimination experienced by the Creole elite gradually caused them to identify with the grievances of the working class as common sufferers against the colony from which they benefitted. Through the more obvious demonstrations of racialism, it also became clearer that the strike was a symptom of the conflict between white imperialism and nascent African nationalism.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
The city council on January 15 proposed to discuss strikers' grievances with them, but this was shut down by the colonial secretary H.C. Luke on behalf of Slater, because giving the City Council permission to intervene would have legitimized the grievances of the strikers. Local newspapers, such as the Sierra Leone Weekly News and other publications, published editorials on the chronology of the strike and criticizing the governmental violent attempts to intimidate the workers.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
On January 21, a meeting of ratepayers and citizens took place at Wilberforce Memorial Hall and was chaired by the deputy mayor, the veteran politician J.A. Songo-Davies. At the meeting a committee of ten Africans and five Europeans was set up to negotiate terms with the government to end the strike. Another committee of seven citizens, including two Europeans, and seven workers' representatives was set up to meet and negotiate with the manager of the railway.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
Governor Slater was informed of these resolutions, but on February 15 he rejected the workers' counter-proposal to have the secretary of state establish a Commission of Enquiry and return working conditions to the status quo ante. Given that the government held the monopoly of coercive forces, neither the strikers nor the elite had any leverage.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
Nonetheless, the elite via the press, and public organizations, exhausted the options available to them—such as setting up a Strike Relief Fund at a "Support the Strike Meeting" on February 8, 1926—to support the workers' demands and show solidarity with their strike. By the end of March, the Strike Relief Fund had supported the strikers with nearly £500 of donations, from the Sierra Leone Friendly Society in Lagos, Nigerian allies; Sierra Leoneans residing in Sekondi; Gold Coast and Creoles in Kumasi; as well as Sierra Leoneans in Monrovia, among others.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, Involvement of the colonized elite
In the end, the Strike Relief Fund came too late to sustain the strike, especially given the real material needs of the workers on strike.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, End of the strike
On February 26, after six weeks of strike, the workers returned to work, forced to accept the government's terms. Less than a dozen people were arrested. Of the 200 people dismissed during the strike, 37 were pensionable workers, some with over twenty years' worth of experience, and twenty daily wagers were dismissed from the railway. The Secretary of the Railway Workers' Union, President of the Bo branch, and other Protectorate workers, were also dismissed. The President of the union was demoted and reassigned, and ended up resigning from the department.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, End of the strike
The job vacancies were filled with West Indian and local workers. Three months after the strike ended, all worker-paid daily wages were returned to their previous incremental rates. After the end of the strike, the union suffered from a lack of  leadership and was replaced by a government-approved Railway Staff Committee.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, The strike, End of the strike
The end of the strike was a capitulation to superior forces, but this was one of the first instances of defiance and protest against the British in Sierra Leone, which presented a major challenge to the colonial government.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Political consequences
As a consequence of their support for the strikes, the elites, especially those serving in political functions, such as Dr. H.C Bankole-Bright and E.S. Beoku-Betts, who served as the first elected African members in the Legislative Council, received severe backlash. These hostile relations only served to galvanize the intelligentsia and the workers in an act of national resistance. This led to the government cracking down on the African elected members of various councils in the following ways:


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Political consequences
In the end, according to academics such as Martin Kilson, this institutionally violent and repressive response of the government to the strikers, brought them, and the urban masses, into direct contact with its coercive power, providing an important insight to the workers, in their attempt at civil disobedience, into the role of force in maintaining colonial authority.


1926 Sierra Leone railway strike, Labor unions in Sierra Leone
With the 1926 railway strike, the Railway Union set a strong precedent for political action and civil disobedience; the railways and mines became the focus for unionization, political organization and strike action. An example of this are the 1935 and 1938 strikes by workers at the then newly opened Sierra Leone Development Company (DELCO), mining iron ore at Marampa. Inspired by 1926 railway workers' strike against the unjust practices of the European industrial employers, they went on strike for better working conditions and compensation.Unions, such as the carpenter or shipwright union subsequently also arose around artisanal trades. This broad structure of trade unions, in addition to public sector workers, still exists and twenty-six organizations constitute the Sierra Leone Labour Congress.


1926 Simmons Cowboys football team
The 1926 Simmons Cowboys football team was an American football team that represented Simmons University (later known as Hardin-Simmons University) as a member of the Texas Conference during the 1926 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Victor Payne, the team compiled a 6–1–3 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 85 to 46. The team played its home games at Parramore Field in Abilene, Texas. Simmons won the Texas Conference title with a mark of 2–0–1.


1926 Slavery Convention
The 1926 Slavery Convention or the Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery was an international treaty created under the auspices of the League of Nations and first signed on 25 September 1926. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 9 March 1927, the same day it went into effect. The objective of the convention was to confirm and advance the suppression of slavery and the slave trade.


1926 Slavery Convention, Background
In the Brussels Conference Act of 1890, the signatories "declared that they were equally animated by the firm intention of putting an end to the traffic in African slaves". It was supplemented and revised by the Convention of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, signed by the Allied Powers of the First World War on 10 September 1919, in which the signatories undertook to "endeavour to secure the complete suppression of slavery in all its forms and of the slave trade by land and sea" (Article 11).


1926 Slavery Convention, Background
A Temporary Slavery Commission was appointed by the Council of the League of Nations in June 1924. The commission was mixed in composition including former colonial governors, as well as a Haitian, and a representative from the International Labour Organization,  Frederick Lugard, was the British representative on the commission.


1926 Slavery Convention, Significance
The convention established concrete rules and articles to advance the suppression of slavery and the slave trade.


1926 Slavery Convention, Significance
the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised


1926 Slavery Convention, Significance
all acts involved in the capture, acquisition or disposal of a person with intent to reduce him to slavery; all acts involved in the acquisition of a slave with a view to selling or exchanging him; all acts of disposal by sale or exchange of a slave acquired with a view to being sold or exchanged, and, in general, every act of trade or transport in slaves.


1926 Slavery Convention, Selected articles
The parties agreed to prevent and suppress the slave trade and to progressively bring about the complete elimination of slavery in all its forms.


1926 Slavery Convention, Selected articles
The parties undertook to promulgate severe penalties for slave trading, slaveholding, and enslavement.


1926 Slavery Convention, Participants
As of 2013, there are 99 countries that have signed, acceded to, ratified, succeeded to, or otherwise committed to participation in the conventions as amended, and its subsequent protocol. The countries and the year of their first commitment to participation are as follows:


1926 Slavery Convention, Participants
Afghanistan (1954), Albania (1957), Algeria (1963), Australia  (1953), Austria (1954), Azerbaijan (1996), Bahamas (1976), Bahrain (1990), Bangladesh (1985), Barbados (1976), Belarus (1956, as the Byelorussian SSR), Belgium (1962), Bolivia (1983), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1993),  Brazil (1966), Cameroon (1984), Canada (1953), Chile (1995), China (1955), Croatia (1992), Cuba (1954), Cyprus (1986),  Denmark (1954), Dominica (1994), Ecuador (1955), Egypt (1954), Ethiopia (1969),  Fiji (1972), Finland (1954), France (1963), Germany (1973), Greece (1955), Guatemala (1983), Guinea (1963), Hungary (1958), India (1954), Iraq (1955), Ireland (1961), Israel (1955), Italy (1954),  Jamaica (1964),  Jordan (1959), Kazakhstan (2008),  Kuwait (1963),  Kyrgyzstan (1997), Lesotho (1974), Liberia (1953), Libya (1957), Madagascar (1964), Malawi (1965), Mali (1973), Malta (1966), Mauritania (1986), Mauritius (1969), Mexico (1954), Monaco (1954), Mongolia (1968), Montenegro (2006), Morocco (1959), Myanmar (1957), Nepal (1963),  Netherlands (1955), New Zealand (1953), Nicaragua (1986), Niger (1964), Nigeria (1961), Norway (1957), Pakistan (1955), Paraguay (2007), Papua New Guinea (1982), Philippines (1955),   Romania (1957), Russia (1956), as the Soviet Union), St Lucia (1990), St Vincent and the Grenadines (1981), Saudi Arabia (1973), Serbia (2001, as Serbia and Montenegro), Sierra Leone (1962), Solomon Islands (1981), South Africa (1953), Spain (1927), Sri Lanka (1958), Sudan (1957), Sweden (1954), Switzerland (1953), Syria (1954), Tanzania (1962), Trinidad and Tobago (1966), Tunisia (1966), Turkey (1955), Turkmenistan (1997), Uganda (1964), Ukraine (1959, as the Ukrainian SSR), United Kingdom (1953),  United States (1956), Uruguay (2001), Viet Nam (1956), Yemen (1987), Zambia (1973)


1926 Slavery Convention, Updates
The convention was amended by the protocol entering into force on 7 July 1955.


1926 Slavery Convention, Updates
The definition of slavery was further refined and extended by a 1956 Supplementary Convention.


1926 Smethwick by-election
The Smethwick by-election, 1926 was a by-election held on 21 December 1926 for the British House of Commons constituency of Smethwick in Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county).


1926 Smethwick by-election
The by-election was caused by the resignation of the town's Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), John Davison, who had represented the constituency since its creation for the 1918 general election.


1926 Smethwick by-election
The result was a victory for the Labour candidate Oswald Mosley, who held the seat comfortably with a slightly increased share of the vote. He represented Smethwick until the 1931 general election, having left Labour in early 1931 to found the New Party. The New Party was unsuccessful, and the following year he founded the British Union of Fascists.


1926 South American Championship
The tenth edition of the South American Championship was held in Santiago, Chile, from October 12 to November 3, 1926.


1926 South American Championship, Overview
The participating countries were Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.


1926 South American Championship, Overview
Brazil withdrew for the second time (being the first time in 1924), and it also was the first time Bolivia took part in the event.


1926 South American Championship, Squads
For a complete list of participants squads see: 1926 South American Championship squads


1926 South American Championship, Final round
Each team plays one match against each of the other teams. Two (2) points are awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat.


1926 South American Championship squads
The following squads were named for the 1926 South American Championship that took place in Chile.


1926 South American Championships in Athletics
The 1926 South American Championships in Athletics  were held in Montevideo, Uruguay between 15 and 20 April.


1926 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1926 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1926 Southern Conference football season.


1926 South Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1926 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1926, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The South Carolina constitution was amended in 1926 to change the term of governor from two years to four years, but also prohibiting governors from consecutive terms. John Gardiner Richards, Jr. won the contested Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election becoming the 96th governor of South Carolina.


1926 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor in the summer of 1926 and it attracted many politicians because of the recent change to the South Carolina constitution providing for a four-year term. Richards emerged victorious from the runoff and effectively became the next governor of South Carolina because there was no opposition in the general election.


1926 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election
The general election was held on November 2, 1926, and John Richards was elected the next governor of South Carolina without opposition thanks to the state's suppression of parties other than the ruling Democrats. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was the lowest ever for a gubernatorial election in South Carolina.


1926 South Dakota Coyotes football team
The 1926 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1926 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Stub Allison, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record (3–1–1 against NCC opponents), finished in second place out of eight teams in the NCC, and outscored opponents by a total of 90 to 76.


1926 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team
The 1926 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team was an American football team that represented South Dakota State College in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1926 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Charles A. West, the team compiled an 8–0–3 record, won the NCC championship, shut out seven of eleven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 157 to 24.


1926 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team, Roster
Sixteen players received varsity letters for their participation on the 1926 team:


1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1926. Incumbent Republican Governor Carl Gunderson ran for re-election to a second term. The election was largely a rematch of the 1924 election, with Gunderson's chief opponent from two years prior, Democrat William J. Bulow, challenging him once again. Two other candidates—Farmer–Labor nominee Tom Ayres and Pierre Mayor John E. Hipple, an independent—also ran. Though the left-leaning vote was split, Bulow was still able to win a decisive victory over Gunderson, whose support from two years earlier had completely collapsed.


1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican Primary, Campaign
In the Republican primary, Gunderson faced a stiff challenge from Secretary of State C. E. Coyne, who lambasted the Gunderson administration for overspending, backtracking on his promises, creating a spoils system with his appointments, and committing "[f]requent blunders." Coyne's most prominent line of attack against Gunderson, however, was against the Governor's controversial reorganization of state government, which Coyne argued was a subterfuge for greed and corruption. Gunderson ultimately defeated Coyne by a decisive margin, but the difficulty he faced against Coyne presaged his weak position with the Republican base in the state.


1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
As the general election began, Gunderson started in a strong position, with some of the Republican newspapers in the state praising his primary victory as an "emphatic endorsement." The Lead Daily Call argued that "the voters have faith in this man of principle and honor" and "are eager to have him continue the work he has started at Pierre." The Rapid City Journal struck a similar tone, concluding that "Governor Gunderson should find great satisfaction in his vote. While he also had opposition, . . .


1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
the lack of attention paid the rival by the voters is assurance to the governor that the people want him to have a free swing at carrying out the reorganization plans which he has started." Further, the candidacy of John Hipple was seen as a blow to Bulow's chances. The Lead Daily Call predicted that Hipple was "promised several towns and several counties," splitting the anti-Gunderson vote in the general election.


1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
But in the final weeks of the campaign, Gunderson seemed to lose ground. The South Dakota Farmers Union endorsed Bulow over Gunderson, even as it endorsed Republican Senator Peter Norbeck for re-election. An anti-Gunderson groundswell was apparently building with regular Republican voters, causing alarm in the Gunderson campaign, though it was unclear whether enough Republicans would defect to elect Bulow.


1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
Ultimately, Bulow defeated Gunderson by a decisive margin, though he fell several points should of a majority victory. He became the state's first Democratic-affiliated candidate to win a gubernatorial election since Andrew E. Lee in 1898, and the first Democrat to serve as Governor. Even as Bulow won, however, the Republican Party's other nominees for statewide office won, and the legislature remained "overwhelmingly [R]epublican."


1926 South Dakota gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
Accordingly, despite Gunderson's loss, the Chairman of the Republican Party of South Dakota argued that "South Dakota [R]epublicans have every reason to rejoice over the election notwithstanding the fact that our candidate for the governorship was defeated." He added, "I feel it is a matter for congratulations that we have fared well."


1926 South West African legislative election
Legislative elections were held for the first time in the territory of South West Africa on 26 May 1926. The German League in South West Africa won eight of the twelve elected seats in the Whites-only election.


1926 South West African legislative election, Electoral system
The Legislative Assembly had 18 seats, of which twelve were elected in single-member constituencies, and six were appointed by the territory's Administrator, Albertus Johannes Werth. The twelve constituencies were Gibeon, Gobabis, Grootfontein, Keetmanshoop, Kolmanskop, Luderitz, Okahandja, Omaruru, Swakopmund, Warmbad, Windhoek Central and Windhoek District.


1926 South West African legislative election, Results
German League candidates were returned unopposed in six of the twelve constituencies; Grootfontein, Keetmanshoop, Kolmanskop, Luderitz, Swakopmund and Windhoek. Of the six members appointed by Werth, two were from the German League and four from the National Party.


1926 Southern Branch Grizzlies football team
The 1926 Southern Branch Grizzlies football team was an American football team that represented the Southern Branch of the University of California during the 1926 college football season. In their second year under head coach William H. Spaulding, the Grizzlies compiled a 5–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 153 to 67.


1926 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1926 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 26–March 2, 1926, at Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia. The North Carolina Tar Heels won their fourth Southern Conference title, led by head coach Harlan Sanborn. Jack Cobb was Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year.


1926 Southern Conference football season
The 1926 Southern Conference football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Conference as part of the 1926 college football season. The season began on September 18.


1926 Southern Conference football season
In the annual Rose Bowl game, the SoCon champion Alabama Crimson Tide tied the PCC champion, and #1 ranked team under the Dickinson System, Stanford 7–7. Alabama and Stanford therefore were amongst those named a national champion. Alabama guard Fred Pickhard was the Rose Bowl game's MVP.


1926 Southern Conference football season
Robert Neyland was hired to coach Tennessee in 1926 by Nathan Dougherty with the explicit goal to "even the score with Vanderbilt."


1926 Southern Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics
PPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game


1926 Southern Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Southern team
The following is the composite All-Southern team compiled by the Associated Press.


1926 Southern Illinois Maroons football team
The 1926 Southern Illinois Maroons football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois Normal University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) in the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1926 college football season. In its 14th season under head coach William McAndrew, the team compiled a 5–1–2 record. The team played its home games at Normal Field in Carbondale, Illinois.


1926 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1926 SIAA Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 3–March 6, 1927, at Greenville. The Mississippi College Choctaws won their first Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title, led by head coach George Bohler.


1926 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team
The 1926 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1926 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach T. R. Mobley, the team compiled a 6–3–1 record.


1926 Spanish Grand Prix
The 1926 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the II Gran Premio de España) was a Grand Prix motor race held at Circuito Lasarte on 25 July 1926. The race was held over 40 laps of a 17.315 km circuit, for a total race distance of 692.6 km. The race was won by Bartolomeo Costantini driving a Bugatti.


1926 Spanish Grand Prix
The race was held just one week after the 1926 European Grand Prix held on the same circuit. The European Grand Prix was a round of the 1926 AIACR World Championship, so was held to the 1.5 litre formula. The Spanish Grand Prix was held to Formula Libre, and so the Bugatti and Delage factory entries ran their 1925 2-litre cars.


1926 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team
The 1926 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team was an American football team that represented St. Ignatius College (later renamed the University of San Francisco) as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In its third season under head coach Jimmy Needles, the Gray Fog compiled a 2–3–3 record and was outscored by a total of 95 to 32.


1926 St. Louis Browns season
The 1926 St. Louis Browns season involved the Browns finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 62 wins and 92 losses.


1926 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1926 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1926 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1926 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1926 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1926 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1926 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 45th season in St. Louis, Missouri and their 35th in the National League. The Cardinals went 89–65 during the season and finished first in the National League, winning their first National League pennant. In the World Series, they defeated the New York Yankees in 7 games, ending it by throwing out Babe Ruth at second base in the ninth-inning of Game 7 to preserve a 3–2 victory. This was Rogers Hornsby's only full season as manager for the team.


1926 St. Louis Cardinals season
Catcher Bob O'Farrell won the MVP Award this year, batting .293, with 7 home runs and 68 RBIs. Led by RBI champion Jim Bottomley, the offense scored the most runs in the NL.


1926 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1926 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1926 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1926 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1926 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1926 St. Xavier Musketeers football team
The 1926 St. Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented St. Xavier College (later renamed Xavier University) in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1926 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Joseph A. Meyer, the team compiled a 9–1 record (1–0 against OAC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 348 to 64. After winning its first nine games, the team's lost on Thanksgiving Day to the undefeated 1926 Haskell Indians football team that led the country in scoring. The team played its home games at Corcoran Field in Cincinnati.


1926 Stanford football team
The 1926 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1926 college football season. In head coach Pop Warner's third season, Stanford went undefeated in the regular season. Stanford faced undefeated Alabama in the 1927 Rose Bowl for the national championship, but the two teams would tie 7–7. The 1927 Stanford-Alabama match was the final Rose Bowl to end in a tie. Stanford was named the national champion under the Dickinson System and as a co-national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess methodology).


1926 Stanford football team
The team played their home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California, and competed in the Pacific Coast Conference.


1926 Stanford football team, Game summaries, Rose Bowl
The 1927 Rose Bowl was held on January 1, 1927, in Pasadena, California. Stanford (10-0, 4-0 PCC) faced off against the Southern Conference Champions, the Alabama Crimson Tide (9-0, 8-0 SoCon). The game would end in a 7–7, and was the last Rose Bowl game to end in a tie.


1926 Stanford football team, Game summaries, Rose Bowl
United Press called the 1927 Rose Bowl "the football championship of America", and the game was considered the most exciting in the series up to that time. The crowd of 68,000 set an attendance record. Stanford's George Bogue missed an 18-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter, then threw a touchdown pass to Ed Walker and kicked the point after to put Stanford up, 7-0. Stanford held that lead through most of the rest of the game, but in the final minutes, they were forced to punt on fourth down.


1926 Stanford football team, Game summaries, Rose Bowl
Frankie Wilton's kick was blocked, and Alabama took over 14 yards from goal. Four plays later, and with a minute left, Jimmy Johnson carried the ball for a touchdown, making it 7-6. The two-point conversion, and overtime, were decades in the future. Stanford's only hope was to block the point after, but Alabama ran the play quickly and Herschel Caldwell's kick tied Stanford, and took away a Stanford victory in the final minute.


1926 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1926 Stanley Cup Finals saw the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Montreal Maroons, in their first Finals appearance, defeat the Western Hockey League (WHL) and defending Stanley Cup champion Victoria Cougars three games to one in the best-of-five game series. This was the last time a non-NHL team would contest for the Cup – the WHL folded following the 1926 Finals leaving the Cup to be contested solely by NHL clubs thereafter.


1926 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
The Cougars finished the 1925–26 WHL regular season in third place, but eventually upset the Edmonton Eskimos in the WHL championship by a combined score of 5–3 to reach the Stanley Cup Finals. Meanwhile, the Maroons finished the NHL regular season in second place. Montreal went on to beat the third seed Pittsburgh Pirates and then defeated the first place Ottawa Senators 2–1 in a two-game total goals series, thus capturing the Prince of Wales Trophy and the right to play Victoria for the Cup.


1926 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
All of the games in the 1926 Cup Finals were played at the Montreal Forum. Aided by three future Hockey Hall of Famers, the Maroons ended up dominating the series. Goaltender Clint Benedict, who previously helped Ottawa in three Cup championships, recorded three shutouts. Rookie Nels Stewart scored 6 of Montreal's 10 overall goals in the 4 games. Punch Broadbent also recorded a goal for the Maroons. The Cougars' lone win came in game three, 3–2.


1926 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Nels Stewart scored both goals in the fourth game to win the series. Stewart had given his stick to a fan after the playoff series against Ottawa. He asked for and retrieved the stick back from the fan prior to the fourth game. He then gave back the stick to the fan after game four.


1926 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1926 Stanley Cup was presented to Maroons captain Dunc Munro by the trophy's trustee William Foran, following the Maroons 2–0 win over the Cougars in game four.


1926 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Maroons players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1926 State of the Union Address
The 1926 State of the Union Address was given by Calvin Coolidge, the 30th United States President, on Monday, December 6, 1926, to the United States House of Representatives, and the United States Senate. It was his fourth address to a joint session. He said,


1926 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship
The 1926 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship was the fifth season of the Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Sweden. Djurgardens IF won the championship.


1926 Swiss grain supply referendum
A referendum on grain supply was held in Switzerland on 5 December 1926. Voters were asked whether they approved of adding article 23 bis to the constitution, which concerned grain supply. The proposal was rejected by a majority of voters and cantons.


1926 Swiss grain supply referendum, Background
The referendum was a mandatory referendum, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half.


1926 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1926 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1926 college football season.


1926 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1926 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as a member the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1926 college football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Matty Bell, the Horned Frogs compiled and overall record of 6–1–2 overall with a mark of 1–1–2 in conference play, tying for third place. TCU played their home games at Clark Field, located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1926 Targa Florio
The 1926 Targa Florio was a Grand Prix motor race held on the 108km Medio Circuito Madonie in Sicily, Italy on 25 April 1926. There were two separate races held simultaneously, one for up to 1100cc Cyclecars held over 3 laps for a total distance of 324km, and the main race for Formula Libre cars over 5 laps for a total distance of 540km. The longer race also featured the 1926 Coppa Florio which was open only to factory entered cars. The Cyclecar race was won by Baconin Borzacchini driving a Salmson, while the longer race and Coppa Florio were won by Meo Costantini in his factory entered Bugatti.


1926 Targa Florio, Report
Competitors were divided into four classes based on engine capacity. Class I were the up to 1100cc cyclecars, Class II was for cars up to 1500cc, Class III for cars up to 2000cc, and Class IV for cars over 2000cc.


1926 Targa Florio, Report
Cars started the race individually in order of race number, with a three minute interval between each car starting with class II, then class III, class IV and finally the class I competitors who only needed to complete 3 laps.


1926 Targa Florio, Report
During his first lap, 2-time Targa Florio winner Giulio Masetti's Delage overturned, severely injuring him, dying shortly afterwards.


1926 Targa Florio, Report
The main race was dominated by Meo Costantini's Bugatti, who lead from the start and never lost the lead, setting a fastest lap of 1 hour and 26 minutes on his fifth and final lap. Behind him, fellow factory Bugatti driver Ferdinando Minoia drove to a mostly unchallenged second place. Behind them the race was much closer. After the first lap, third to eighth place were separated by less than two minutes, with Emilio Materassi's Itala Special in third followed by Wagner, Dubonnet, Divo, Goux and Maserati.


1926 Targa Florio, Report
Dubonnet and Goux charged up the order on the second lap, moving up to third and fourth places respectively, making it a Bugatti 1-2-3-4, while Materassi dropped to sixth due to a pit stop. By the end of lap three,  Materassi had pushed back up to third place, while Dubonnet had dropped to seventh as he made a pitstop.


1926 Targa Florio, Report
Factory Delage drivers Divo and Benoist would then retire, mourning the loss of teammate Masetti. Goux was able to pass Materassi on the fourth lap, giving the Bugatti factory team a 1-2-3 which they would hold until the end, with Materassi finishing fourth, while Dubonnet was fifth, and first in Class II. After setbacks which dropped him as low as 12th, Maserati finished 8th and won Class III.


1926 Targa Florio, Results, Targa Florio
Entrants who competed for the Coppa Florio shown in bold.


1926 Tempe State Bulldogs football team
The 1926 Tempe State Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Tempe State Teachers College (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Aaron McCreary, the Bulldogs compiled a 4–1–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 97 to 42. The team's games included a 35–0 loss in the Arizona–Arizona State football rivalry. Ernest Simpkins was the team captain.


1926 Temple Owls football team
The 1926 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In its second season under head coach Heinie Miller, the team compiled a 5–3 record. The team played its home games on a new field located at City Line and Vernon Road; it was known variously as Temple Field, Owl Field, or the Temple athletic field.


1926 Tennessee Docs football team
The 1926 Tennessee Docs football team (variously "Docs", "UT Doctors" or the "Tennessee Medicos") represented the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis in the 1926 college football season. It was their last season of play. The final game saw Vanderbilt teammates Gil Reese and Jess Neely coach against one another.


1926 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1926 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1926 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his first year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. The 1926 Vols won eight and lost one game (8–1 overall, 5–1 in the SoCon). They won their first seven games of the season before losing to in-state rival, Vanderbilt. Tennessee outscored their opponents 151 to 34 and posted five shutouts.


1926 Tennessee gubernatorial election
The 1926 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1926. Incumbent Democrat Austin Peay defeated Republican nominee Walter White with 64.69% of the vote.


1926 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1926 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1926 college football season.


1926 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1926 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1926 college football season.


1926 Texas Mines Miners football team
The 1926 Texas Mines Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas School of Mines (now known as the University of Texas at El Paso) as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach George B. Powell, the team compiled a 3–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 106 to 92. The team lost its rivalry game with New Mexico A&M by a 10-8 score.


1926 Texas Tech Matadors football team
The 1926 Texas Tech Matadors football team represented Texas Tech in the 1926 college football season. The season marked the first time the Matadors (later the Red Raiders) played the TCU Horned Frogs.


1926 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 1926 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) the 1926 college football season. Carl Prause served as head coach for the fifth season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and played home games at College Park Stadium in Hampton Park.


1926 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 1926 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 35th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.


1926 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Moycarkey-Borris won the championship after a 6–04 to 4–02 win over Boherlahen in the final. It was the club's first title as Moycarkey-Borris but the fifth title to be claimed by a team representing the area.


1926 Toledo Rockets football team
The 1926 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented Toledo University (renamed the University of Toledo in 1967) during the 1926 college football season. Led by first-year coach Boni Petcoff, Toledo compiled a 3–5 overall record and 1–2 in conference play.


1926 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1926 Toronto Argonauts season was the 40th season for the team since the franchise's inception in 1873. The team finished in third place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with a 3–3 record and failed to qualify for the playoffs.


1926 Toronto municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1926. Thomas Foster was reelected mayor.


1926 Toronto municipal election, Toronto mayor
Thomas Foster had first been elected to city council in 1891 and was running for his second consecutive term as mayor. He was opposed by former Controller R.H. Cameron, but won easy reelection. The central issue was whether the suburban radial lines, such as the Toronto and York Radial Railway, should be taken away from Toronto Hydro and merged into the Toronto Transportation Commission. While Cameron, the main advocate of the position, lost the election the policy was enacted in 1927.


1926 Toronto municipal election, Board of Control
There was one change in the membership of the Board of Control. Alderman Sam McBride made his first run for the Board and finished second. This pushed William D. Robbins into fifth and off the board.


1926 Toronto municipal election, City council
Results taken from the January 2, 1926 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.


1926 Tour de France
The 1926 Tour de France was the 20th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 20 June to 18 July. It consisted of 17 stages with a total distance of 5745 km, ridden at an average speed of 24.064 km/h.


1926 Tour de France
The longest tour in history, the route traced closely the borders of France. It was the first time that the race started outside Paris; in this way riders were forced to climb the mountains in the east of the country twice, once at the beginning of the race, and again at the end. The race was won by Belgian cyclist Lucien Buysse.


1926 Tour de France, Innovations
In 1925, the number of stages had been increased from 15 (which was common since 1910) to 18 stages. In 1926, this was decreased to 17 stages. Tour organiser Henri Desgrange wanted to have longer stages, so the average stage length increased from 312 km per stage in 1925 to 338 km per stage in 1926.


1926 Tour de France, Teams
There were 126 cyclists who started the Tour de France; 82 of them were touriste-routiers, cyclists who did not have the support from a team. The other 44 cyclists started the race in teams; some teams only had two cyclists.


1926 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The two teams with favourites were Automoto and Alcyon. The Automoto team had Ottavio Bottecchia, the winner of the last two editions of the race, and Lucien Buysse, the runner-up of the previous edition. The Alcyon team had Bartolomeo Aymo and Nicolas Frantz, third and fourth in 1925. They also had Adelin Benoit, and the Tour organisation thought that the battle would be between Bottecchia and Benoit.


1926 Tour de France, Race overview
Jules Buysse started strong in the first stage, by finishing solo with a margin of more than 13 minutes. The second stage ended with a bunch sprint, so nothing changed in the general classification. In the third stage, he lost the lead to Gustaaf van Slembrouck. On that day, Lucien Buysse received the news that his daughter had died. He considered to leave the race, but decided to stay. The next stages all ended in bunch sprints, with all the favourites in the first group. In the sixth stage, Félix Sellier won the sprint. However, the jury decided that he had not sprinted according to the rules, and he was set back to second place, making Joseph van Dam the winner.


1926 Tour de France, Race overview
The battle for the general classification seriously began in the tenth stage. That tenth stage was a tough stage, and has been labeled as the toughest stage ever in the Tour de France; 76 cyclists started the race at midnight, and more than seventeen hours later, Lucien Buysse arrived as the winner. After twenty-five minutes, the next cyclist came in. After one hour, only 10 cyclists had finished, so the Tour de France organisation sent cars to look for the cyclists. At midnight, 47 cyclists had arrived, some of them in buses.


1926 Tour de France, Race overview
The race officials decided to allow the cyclists 40% more time than the winning cyclist. Later that night, 54 cyclists had crossed the finish line, and the remaining 22 cyclists were gathered; they were no longer in the race. After the stage, the race officials were approached by a man who claimed that he had brought some cyclists to the finish line with his car, but that the cyclists had not paid him. The officials decided not to punish the cyclists, and paid the driver.


1926 Tour de France, Race overview
Gustaaf Van Slembrouck, wearing the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification, officially finished in 20th place, two hours behind Buysse. Year later, Van Slembrouck said that during the stage he had said to Tour organiser Desgrange that he was giving up, and Desgrange ordered a car to bring Van Slembrouck to the finish. The same stage with the same mountains had also been in the 1913 Tour de France; then the weather was better, and winner Philippe Thys only took 13 hours to finish the stage. One of the cyclists who had not finished the stage was the defending champion, Ottavio Bottecchia.


1926 Tour de France, Race overview
When Buysse also won the next stage, his victory was assured, as he was leading by more than one hour. From that moment, Buysse saved his energy, and the race continued for the second place between Frantz and Aimo. At the end of the race, Frantz was in second place, only 26 seconds before Aimo.


1926 Tour de France, Results
In each stage, all cyclists started together. The cyclist who reached the finish first, was the winner of the stage. The time that each cyclist required to finish the stage was recorded. For the general classification, these times were added up; the cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey.


1926 Tour de France, Results, Stage winners
In 1926, there were no French stage winners. This was the first time that this happened, and has since only happened again in 1999.


1926 Tour de France, Other classifications
The race for touriste-routiers, cyclists who did not belong to a team and were allowed no assistance, was won by Italian Rossignoli.


1926 Tour de France, Other classifications
The organising newspaper, l'Auto named a meilleur grimpeur (best climber), an unofficial precursor to the modern King of the Mountains competition. This award was won by Lucien Buysse.


1926 Tour de France, Aftermath
Lucien Buysse announced after his win that he expected to win again in 1927, but because his sponsor Automoto had financial problems, they could not send a team to the Tours of 1927 and 1928, and Buysse only returned in 1929. Lucien Buysse would never finish the Tour de France again. The winner of the previous edition, Bottecchia, said that he would retire from cycling, after the difficulties he faced in the 1926 Tour de France.


1926 Tour de France, Aftermath
The Tour de France organisation did not like the outcome of the 1926 Tour de France, as 10 of the 17 stages had finished in bunch sprints. For the next year, the rules were changed, and the flat stages were run as team time trials.


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9
The 1926 Tour de France was the 20th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Evian with a flat stage on 20 June, and Stage 9 occurred on 4 July with a flat stage to Bayonne. The race finished in Paris on 18 July.


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 1
20 June 1926 - Evian to Mülhausen, 373 km (232 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 2
22 June 1926 - Mülhausen to Metz, 334 km (208 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 3
24 June 1926 - Metz to Dunkerque, 433 km (269 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 4
26 June 1926 - Dunkerque to Le Havre, 361 km (224 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 5
28 June 1926 - Le Havre to Cherbourg, 357 km (222 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 6
30 June 1926 - Cherbourg to Brest, 405 km (252 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 7
2 July 1926 - Brest to Les Sables d'Olonne, 412 km (256 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 8
3 July 1926 - Les Sables d'Olonne to Bordeaux, 285 km (177 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 9, Stage 9
4 July 1926 - Bordeaux to Bayonne, 189 km (117 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17
The 1926 Tour de France was the 20th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Evian on 20 June, and Stage 10 occurred on 6 July with a mountainous stage from Bayonne. The race finished in Paris on 18 July.


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 10
6 July 1926 - Bayonne to Luchon, 326 km (203 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 11
8 July 1926 - Luchon to Perpignan, 323 km (201 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 12
10 July 1926 - Perpignan to Toulon, 427 km (265 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 13
12 July 1926 - Toulon to Nice, 280 km (170 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 14
14 July 1926 - Nice to Briançon, 275 km (171 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 15
16 July 1926 - Briançon to Evian, 303 km (188 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 16
17 July 1926 - Evian to Dijon, 321 km (199 mi)


1926 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 17, Stage 17
18 July 1926 - Dijon to Paris, 341 km (212 mi)


1926 Tour de Hongrie
The 1926 Tour de Hongrie was the second edition of the Tour de Hongrie cycle race and was held from 27 to 29 June 1926. The race started and finished in Budapest. The race was won by László Vida.


1926 Tour of the Basque Country
The 1926 Tour of the Basque Country was the third edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 4 August to 8 August 1926. The race started in Bilbao and finished in Las Arenas. The race was won by Nicolas Frantz.


1926 Tulane Green Wave football team
The 1926 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1926 college football season. Spirits were high to begin the season as Milton Levy was the only member of the 1925 line to leave, but the losses in the backfield of Lester Lautenschlaeger, Peggy Flournoy, and Fred Lamprecht proved to be costly. Captain Harry P. Gamble was All-Southern.


1926 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1926 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1926 college football season. In their second year under head coach Gus Henderson, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 7–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 169 to 56.


1926 Tuskegee Golden Tigers football team
The 1926 Tuskegee Golden Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Tuskegee University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) during the 1926 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Cleveland Abbott, Tuskegee compiled a 10–0 record, won the SIAC championship, and outscored all opponents by a total of 288 to 84. The team was recognized as the black college national champion.


1926 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
The 1926 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York City, United States. The women's tournament was held from August 16 until August 23 while the men's tournament ran from 13 September until 18 September. It was the 46th staging of the U.S. National Championships and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of the year.


1926 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Champions, Men's doubles
Richard Norris Williams /  Vincent Richards defeated  Bill Tilden /  Alfred Chapin 6–4, 6–8, 11–9, 6–3


1926 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Champions, Women's doubles
Elizabeth Ryan /  Eleanor Goss defeated  Mary K. Browne /  Charlotte Chapin 3–6, 6–4, 12–10


1926 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Champions, Mixed doubles
Elizabeth Ryan /  Jean Borotra defeated  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman /  René Lacoste 6–4, 7–5


1926 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles
René Lacoste defeated Jean Borotra 6–4, 6–0, 6–4 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1926 U.S. National Championships. It was Lacoste's first U.S. Championships title and his third Grand Slam title overall. Bill Tilden was the six-time defending champion, but was upset in the quarterfinals by that year's French Championships winner Henri Cochet.


1926 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
Forty-two-year-old Molla Mallory defeated Elizabeth Ryan 4–6, 6–4, 9–7 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1926 U.S. National Championships. The event was held at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York City. Mallory became the oldest US Open champion in history. It was Mallory's eighth and final U.S. National singles title.


1926 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1926 U.S. Open was the 30th U.S. Open, held July 8–10 at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio. Noted amateur Bobby Jones, winner of the British Open two weeks earlier, won the second of his four U.S. Opens, one stroke ahead of runner-up Joe Turnesa.


1926 U.S. Open (golf)
After rounds of 70-79-71, Jones was three strokes behind third round leader Turnesa, who unraveled on the last nine on Saturday afternoon, with five bogeys in six holes. He managed to birdie the final hole for a 77 and 294 total for solo second (and the winner's share of the purse). Jones got off to a slow start, with bogeys at three of his first five holes, then birdied the 7th and ran off a streak of nine consecutive fours.


1926 U.S. Open (golf)
Needing a par on the par-5 18th to tie (and force a playoff round), Jones hit a 310-yard (283 m) tee shot, then followed with an approach to the green, leaving 15 feet (4.5 m) for eagle. Two-putting for birdie, Jones carded a one-over 73 to best Turnesa by a stroke. Bill Mehlhorn opened with 68 on Thursday,  and led after both of the first two rounds, but was ten over par on Saturday and was four strokes back, in a four-way tie for third.


1926 U.S. Open (golf)
Jones became the first player to win the U.S. Open and British Open in the same year, and he won both again four years later in 1930, during his grand slam year. Later double Open winners were Gene Sarazen (1932), Ben Hogan (1953), Lee Trevino (1971), Tom Watson (1982), and Tiger Woods (2000). While Turnesa never won a major, he did finish second twice and his brother Jim won the PGA Championship in 1952. Another brother, Willie, won the U.S. Amateur twice and the British Amateur once. In total, eight Turnesa brothers played on the PGA Tour.


1926 U.S. Open (golf)
This was also the first year since 1919 that the tournament was extended to three days, because of the number of entries and the size of the gallery. The first two rounds were now played over two days, Thursday and Friday, with a 36-hole cut. The final two rounds continued to be played on one day, Saturday. This format continued through 1964, except for the following year in 1927, when it was held Tuesday through Thursday (with a Friday playoff). The final round in 1959 was on Sunday due to weather delays.


1926 U.S. Open (golf)
Scioto was only ten years old at the time, and its club pro was George Sargent, the 1909 champion, who did not compete. It later hosted the Ryder Cup in 1931 and the PGA Championship in 1950. Scioto is also noteworthy as the club where Jack Nicklaus learned to play as a youth in the 1950s, under the tutelage of Jack Grout.


1926 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Amateurs: Jones (+5), Evans (+14), Johnston (+21), MacDonald (+22), Shute (+28), Westland (+28).


1926 UCI Road World Championships
The 1926 UCI Road World Championships took place in Milan, Italy on 29 July 1926.


1926 UCI Road World Championships, Results
The course was 183 km from Milan to Torino. There were 44 participants.


1926 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1926 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Milan and Turin, Italy from 24 July to 1 August 1926. Three events for men were contested, two for professionals and one for amateurs.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the inaugural year of 'track' greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
On the 6 March 1876, near the Welsh Harp, Hendon, an early attempt to introduce mechanical track greyhound racing took place. It was on a straight course 400 yards long, with the hare being drawn along the ground at the end of a cord, which was wound around a windlass. The venture did not appeal to the public because although the fastest greyhound would always win, the cleverest (best tracker) did not.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
In 1890 a patent was taken out for a circular greyhound racing track but was never put into practice, due to the patent owner not having financial backing. Five years later a mechanical lure was used in Ireland and again failed.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Thirty years later, in 1925, Charles Alexander Munn, an American businessman, who had seen greyhound racing in the United States came over to the United Kingdom and teamed up with Owen P Smith and George Sawyer for the rights to promote the British greyhound racing as an alternative to coursing which was the primary form of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Munn met with Major L. Lyne Dixson (a leading figure in British field sports) and the pair decided to find other supporters despite the fact that the General Strike of 1926 was looming.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The two men eventually met Brigadier-General Alfred Critchley, who in turn introduced them to Sir William Gentle JP. Eventually they raised £22,000 and formed a company called the Greyhound Racing Association Ltd, or GRA for short. When the GRA were deciding where to situate a new stadium they thought Manchester was an ideal place because of its sporting and gambling links. The company constructed the first custom-built greyhound stadium near the city centre and called it Belle Vue Stadium, where the very first race around an oval track in Britain was held on 24 July 1926 at 7.30 pm.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
With over one million people unemployed and the first general strike in history taking place and troops had been deployed to trouble spots throughout Britain. Greyhound racing offered an affordable day out, away from all of the issues and as a result greyhound racing underwent remarkable growth over the next decade.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Only 1,700 people attended the first meeting at Belle Vue and they watched six races with seven dogs in each race. A greyhound called 'Mistley' won the first ever race over 440 yards, running the quarter-mile flat course in 25.00 seconds, Mistley romped home eight lengths clear at 6–1. Fifty years later a stand was named after Mistley.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Belle Vue ran many races with seven runners per race but after the formation of the National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) in 1928, the maximum number of dogs per race was limited to six, although this rule was to change several times during the century. The colours of the racing jackets that night were - trap 1-red, 2-blue, 3-white, 4-green, 5-black, 6-orange & 7-red and white. Racing was very erratic compared to today because the greyhounds lining up were various mixes of former coursing hounds with no experience of oval racing except for a scattering of trials. Winning distances for the six races were 8, 1, 12, 10, 5 & 2 lengths.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The GRA actually lost £50 on the first night because of the small attendance but the following week the crowds turned out in force; more than 16,000 people attended the meeting and within a short space of time "going to the dogs" became a national pastime. From the first meeting in July to the day the GRA closed for the winter break just three months later on 29 October, over 11,000 racegoers (per meeting) had paid to watch each of the 37 meetings. During those meetings there had been 221 races. The consortium repaid a £10,000 bank loan and shares in the new company rose from their initial value of one shilling to £37 10s. Two Belfast bookmakers called Joe Shaw and Hugh McAlinden visited Belle Vue during 1926 with the intention of gaining ideas to start track racing in Ireland.


1926 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The greyhounds themselves were generally supplied by coursing trainers, owners and breeders such as Sidney Orton, a Norfolk farmer who sold 17 greyhounds to Belle Vue for £170. A brindle greyhound called Mutton Cutlet, whelped in March 1921, had contested the Waterloo Cup in 1923, 1924 and 1925 and finished runner up in the Waterloo Plate in 1924. In 1926, he was brought by Tom Morris, keeper of the Irish Stud book. Morris put him to stud, demanding a fee of 10 guineas. Mutton Cutlet became the first major breeding sire (male parent) in track racing.


1926 USC Trojans football team
The 1926 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1926 college football season. In their second year under head coach Howard Jones, the Trojans compiled an 8–2 record (5–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Pacific Coast Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 317 to 52. The season featured the first game in the Notre Dame–USC football rivalry; Notre Dame won by a 13 to 12 score in Los Angeles.


1926 United Kingdom general strike
The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted nine days, from 4 to 12 May 1926. It was called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reductions and worsening conditions for 1.2 million locked-out coal miners. Some 1.7 million workers went out, especially in transport and heavy industry. The government was prepared, and enlisted middle class volunteers to maintain essential services. There was little violence and the TUC gave up in defeat.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Causes
Mine owners announced that their intention was to reduce miners' wages. The Miners Federation of Great Britain rejected the terms: "Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day." The Trades Union Congress responded to the news by promising to support the miners in their dispute.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Causes
The Conservative government, under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, decided to intervene by declaring that a nine-month subsidy would be provided to maintain the miners' wages and that a Royal Commission, under the chairmanship of Sir Herbert Samuel, would look into the problems of the mining industry and consider its impact on other industries, families and organisations dependent on coal supplies industry.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Causes
The Samuel Commission published a report on 10 March 1926 recommending that national agreements, the nationalisation of royalties and sweeping reorganisation and improvement should be considered for the mining industry. It also recommended a reduction by 13.5% of miners' wages, along with the withdrawal of the government subsidy. Two weeks later, the prime minister announced that the government would accept the report if other parties also did.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Causes
A previous royal commission, the Sankey Commission in 1919, had failed to reach an agreement, producing four different reports with proposals ranging from complete restoration of private ownership and control, to complete nationalisation. David Lloyd George, the then prime minister, offered reorganisation, which was rejected by the miners.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Causes
After the Samuel Commission's report, the mine owners declared that miners would be offered new terms of employment, which included lengthening the work day and reducing wages depending on various factors. The Miners' Federation of Great Britain refused the wage reduction and regional negotiation.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
The final negotiations began on 1 May but failed to achieve an agreement, leading to an announcement by the TUC that a general strike "in defence of miners' wages and hours" was to begin on 3 May, a Monday, at one minute to midnight.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
The leaders of the British Conservative Party were not happy about the proposed general strike because they were aware of the revolutionary elements within the union movement. During the next two days, frantic efforts were made to reach an agreement between the government and the mining industry representatives. However, they failed, mainly because of an eleventh-hour decision by printers of the Daily Mail to refuse to print an editorial ("For King and Country") condemning the general strike. They objected to the following passage: "A general strike is not an industrial dispute. It is a revolutionary move which can only succeed by destroying the government and subverting the rights and liberties of the people".


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
Baldwin was now concerned about the TUC and printers' action interfering with the freedom of the press.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
King George V tried to stabilise the situation and create balance saying, "Try living on their wages before you judge them."


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
The TUC feared that an all-out general strike would bring revolutionary elements to the fore and limited the participants to railwaymen, transport workers, printers, dockers, ironworkers and steelworkers, as they were regarded as pivotal in the dispute.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
The government had been preparing for the strike over the nine months in which it had provided a subsidy by creating organisations such as the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies, and it did whatever it could to keep the country moving. It rallied support by emphasizing the revolutionary nature of the strikers. The armed forces and volunteer workers helped maintain basic services. It used the Emergency Powers Act 1920 to maintain essential supplies.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
On 4 May 1926, the number of strikers was about 1.5–1.75 million. There were strikers "from John o' Groats to Land's End". The reaction to the strike call was immediate and overwhelming and surprised both the government and the TUC; the latter not being in control of the strike. On this first day, there were no major initiatives and no dramatic events except for the nation's transport being at a standstill.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
"Constitutional Government is being attacked. Let all good citizens whose livelihood and labour have thus been put in peril bear with fortitude and patience the hardships with which they have been so suddenly confronted. Stand behind the Government, who are doing their part, confident that you will cooperate in the measures they have undertaken to preserve the liberties and privileges of the people of these islands. The laws of England are the people's birthright. The laws are in your keeping. You have made Parliament their guardian. The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin".


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
On 5 May 1926, both sides gave their views. Churchill commented as editor of the government newspaper British Gazette: "I do not agree that the TUC have as much right as the Government to publish their side of the case and to exhort their followers to continue action. It is a very much more difficult task to feed the nation than it is to wreck it". Baldwin wrote, "The general strike is a challenge to the parliament and is the road to anarchy". The British Worker, the TUC's newspaper, wrote: "We are not making war on the people. We are anxious that the ordinary members of the public shall not be penalized for the unpatriotic conduct of the mine owners and the government".


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
In the meantime, the government put in place a "militia" of special constables called the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies (OMS) of volunteers to maintain order in the street. A special constable said: "It was not difficult to understand the strikers' attitude toward us. After a few days I found my sympathy with them rather than with the employers. For one thing, I had never realized the appalling poverty which existed. If I had been aware of all the facts, I should not have joined up as a special constable". It was decided that fascists would not be allowed to enlist in the OMS without first giving up their political beliefs, as the government feared a right-wing backlash so the fascists formed the so-called "Q Division" under Rotha Lintorn-Orman to combat the strikers.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
On 6 May 1926, there was a change of atmosphere. The government newspaper, British Gazette, suggested that means of transport began to improve with volunteers and strikebreakers, stating on the front page that there were '200 buses on the streets'. They were, however, figures of propaganda, as there were in fact only 86 buses running.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
On 7 May 1926, the TUC met with Samuel and worked out a set of proposals designed to end the dispute. The Miners' Federation rejected the proposals. The British Worker was increasingly difficult to operate, as Churchill had requisitioned the bulk of the supply of the paper's newsprint so it reduced its size from eight pages to four. In the meantime, the government took action to protect the men who decided to return to work.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
On 8 May 1926, there was a dramatic moment on the London Docks. Lorries were protected by the British Army. They broke the picket line and transported food to Hyde Park. That showed that the government was in greater control of the situation. It was also a measure of Baldwin's rationalism, in place of Churchill's more reactionary stance. Churchill had wanted, in a move that could have proved unnecessarily antagonistic to the strikers, to arm the soldiers. Baldwin, however, had insisted otherwise. In Plymouth, tram services are restarted, with some vehicles attacked and windows smashed. However, also in Plymouth, a football match, attended by thousands, occurs between a team of policemen and strikers, with the strikers winning 2–0.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
On 11 May 1926, the Flying Scotsman was derailed by striking miners near Newcastle upon Tyne. The British Worker, alarmed at the fears of the General Council of the TUC that there was to be a mass drift back to work, claimed: "The number of strikers has not diminished; it is increasing. There are more workers out today than there have been at any moment since the strike began".


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
However, the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union applied for an injunction in the Chancery Division of the High Court to enjoin the General-Secretary of its Tower Hill branch from calling its members out on strike. Mr Justice Astbury granted the injunction by ruling that no trade dispute could exist between the TUC and "the government of the nation" and that except for the strike in the coal industry, the general strike was not protected by Trade Disputes Act 1906. In addition, he ruled that the strike in the plaintiff union had been called in contravention of its own rules. As a result, the unions involved became liable, by common law, for incitement to breach of contract and faced potential sequestration of their assets by employers.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, General strike, May 1926
On 12 May 1926, the TUC General Council visited 10 Downing Street to announce its decision to call off the strike if the proposals worked out by the Samuel Commission were respected and the government offered a guarantee there would be no victimization of strikers. The government stated that it had "no power to compel employers to take back every man who had been on strike". However, the TUC agreed to end the dispute without such an agreement. Various strikes continued after this as their unions negotiated deals with companies for their members to return to work.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Aftermath
The miners maintained resistance for a few months before being forced, by their own economic needs, to return to the mines. By the end of November, most miners were back at work. However, many remained unemployed for many years. Those still employed were forced to accept longer hours, lower wages and district wage agreements.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Aftermath
The effect on British coal mines was profound. By the late 1930s, employment in mining had fallen by more than a third from its pre-strike peak of 1.2 million miners, but productivity had rebounded from under 200 tons produced per miner, to over 300 tons by the outbreak of the Second World War.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Aftermath
The split in the miners that resulted from Spencerism and the agreement of the Nottinghamshire miners to return to work, against the policy of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain divided the coal miners as a national bargaining force until the establishment of the National Union of Mineworkers.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Aftermath
The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 banned sympathy strikes, general strikes and mass picketing, and created a system whereby trade union members had to 'opt-in' to paying the political levy to the Labour Party.


1926 United Kingdom general strike, Aftermath
In the long run, there was little impact on trade union activity or industrial relations. The TUC and the trade union movement remained intact and did not change their basic policies. Keith Laybourn says that historians mostly agree that "In no significant way could the General Strike be considered a turning point or watershed in British industrial history." There have been no further general strikes in Britain, as union leaders such as Ernest Bevin, who had coordinated the strike, considered it a mistake; they decided that action by political parties was a better solution. However, the country came close to a one-day general strike on 31 July 1972 over the imprisonment of the Pentonville Five.


1926 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1926 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1926 which occurred in the middle of President Calvin Coolidge's second term. Coolidge's Republican Party lost seats to the opposition Democratic Party, but it retained a majority. The most pressing national matters at the time were fragmented, generally related to government's relationship to business or to providing social aid. However, no predominant issue was able to cast a shadow over the election. The small, populist Farmer–Labor Party also held two seats following the election.


1926 United States House of Representatives elections in California
The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1926 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 2, 1926. Republicans gained one seat in a special election held on August 31, 1926, after incumbent Democrat John E. Raker died.


1926 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results
Final results from the Clerk of the House of Representatives:


1926 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina
The 1926 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 2, 1926 to select seven Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. All seven incumbents were re-elected and the composition of the state delegation remained solely Democratic.