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1926
• On 25 April, Reza Khan crowns himself shah of Iran, beginning the Pahlavi dynasty. • In Britain, a General Strike, aimed at preventing a decrease in miners' wages, fails after nine days (3-12 May). • On 23 May, France establishes the republic of Lebanon. • On 8 September, Germany joins the League of Nations. As a result, Spain leaves. • In Italy, Antonio Gramsci, the Communist party leader, is arrested by the Fascist government on 8 November; he later (1937) dies in prison. • Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan. • On 26 January, the first television is demonstrated in London by British inventor John Logie Baird. • First liquid-fuel rocket is launched in the United States by Robert H Goddard. • German film-maker Fritz Lang makes the influential futuristic film, Metropolis. • When silent-film actor Rudolph Valentino, aged 31, dies after filming Son of the Sheik in Hollywood, millions mourn. • British crime writer Agatha Christie publishes The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a mystery story with a characteristic twist. |
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