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1926
The 20th Century Almanac · The Twenties

1926

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, and escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween. Hirohito ascended Japan's throne as the Showa era began.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Grazia Deledda (Pen-Name Of Madesani
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1926

Champions

US OpenGolf Winner: Robert T. Jones, Jr. Score: 293 Course: Scrito CC Location: Columbus, OH World Series Champions: St. Louis Cardinals vs. NY Yankees Series: 4-3

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
SVEDBERG, THE (THEODOR), Sweden, Uppsala University, b. 1884, d. 1971: "for his work on disperse systems"
Literature
GRAZIA DELEDDA (pen-name of MADESANI, GRAZIA, nŽe DELEDDA), Italy, b. 1871 (in Nuoro, Sardinia), d. 1936: "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sym
Peace
The prize was awarded jointly to: BRIAND, ARISTIDE, France, b. 1862, d. 1932: Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty and the Briand-Kellogg Pact. STRESEMANN, GUSTAV, Germany, b. 1878, d. 1929: Former Lord High Chancellor (Reichs
Physiology or Medicine
FIBIGER, JOHANNES ANDREAS GRIB, Denmark, Copenhagen University, b. 1867, d. 1928: "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma"
Physics
PERRIN, JEAN BAPTISTE, France, Sorbonne University, Paris, b. 1870, d. 1942: "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
George Kelly ... "Craig's Wife"
Fiction
Sinclair Lewis ... "Arrowsmith"
History
Edward Channing ... "The History of the United States"
Public Service
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