Historical Events in 1926
59 curated events dated to this year, and 194 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1926
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize
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Publication of 'Winnie-the-Pooh'
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First Publication of 'Capitale de la Douleur'
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Kafka's 'The Castle' Published Posthumously
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Langston Hughes The Weary Blues
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Launch of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Publication of 'Songs of the Soul'
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Publication of 'The Sun Also Rises'
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Publication of 'The Waste Land'
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Publication of White Buildings
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Artaud Founds the Theatre of Alfred Jarry
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Collaboration with the Harlem Renaissance artists
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Cullen joins Opportunity and begins The Dark Tower
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Cullen takes a master’s degree at Harvard
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Discovery of the Electron Microscope
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Fianna Fáil Founded by Eamon de Valera
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Final Years and Legacy
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Langston Hughes Travels to Europe
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Publication of 'Enough Rope'
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Publication of 'The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats'
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Publication of 'The Goodness of St. Rocque'
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Publication of 'The Outsider'
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Publication of The Orphan Angel
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Taggard Publishes Words for the Chisel
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Television Demonstrated by John Logie Baird
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The First Use of the Term 'Genetics'
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United States Air Commerce Act regulates civil aviation
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Allen Ginsberg Born
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Book of the Month Club Founded
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Death of Henry Augustin Beers
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Fire!! Magazine Publication
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First Flight Over North Pole
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Friendship with Langston Hughes
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Friendship with Salvador Dalí
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Honorary Doctorate from Princeton University
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Publication of 'The Life of Edgar Allan Poe'
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Publication of 'Wild Plum: Lyrics, with Sonnets to Charis'
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PVC Commercialized by BF Goodrich
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Relocation to New York City
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Rolex Oyster: The First Waterproof Wristwatch
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The Agonizing Solo Arctic Flight of Peter Freuchen
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The First Commercial Radio Broadcast in the UK
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Travels extensively in Europe
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Birth of First Child, Charles Van Doren
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Dandridge is profiled and sketched in the Cincinnati Post
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First Successful Use of the Iron Lung
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Founding of the Distributist League
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General Strike in Britain
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Harlem Savoy Ballroom Opens
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New York Milk Scandal of 1926
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Publication of 'Sand and Foam'
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Publication of Far End
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The Black Bottom Supersedes the Charleston
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The First International Exhibition of Surrealism
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The Poetry Bookshop moves to Great Russell Street
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Harlem Globetrotters Founded
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Honorary Doctorate from Oberlin College
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Launch of the First Commercially Available Electric Refrigerator
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Nichols returns to England from Hollywood
Poets alive in 1926
194 poets
Poets in 1926
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