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1926
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1926
Events
January
January 1
Flooding of the
Rhine
River struck
Cologne
; 50,000 were forced to evacuate their homes.
Ireland's first regular radio service,
2RN
(later
Radio Éireann
), began broadcasting.
January 3
–
Theodoros Pangalos
declared himself dictator in Greece.
January 6
– The airline
Deutsche Luft Hansa
was founded in Berlin.
January 8
–
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud
was crowned King of
Hejaz
.
January 12
–
Freeman Gosden
and
Charles Correll
premiered their
radio
program
Sam 'n' Henry
, in which the two white performers portray two black characters from
Harlem
looking to strike it rich in the big city. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program,
Amos 'n' Andy
.
January 16
– A
BBC
comic radio play broadcast by
Ronald Knox
about a workers' revolution caused a panic in London.
January 21
– The Belgian Parliament accepted the
Locarno Treaties
.
January 26
– Scottish inventor
John Logie Baird
demonstrated a mechanical television system for members of the
Royal Institution
and a reporter from
The Times
at his London laboratory.
January 29
–
Eugene O'Neill
's
The Great God Brown
opened at the
Greenwich Theatre
.
January 31
– British and Belgian troops left
Cologne
.
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