Britain
The General Strike
In May 1926, around 1.7 million British workers struck in support of coal miners. It lasted nine days.
Born in 1908
It was 1926 when you turned 18
You arrived in 1908. By 1926 — 100 years ago now — the world had moved on. Here's what it looked like.
Turning 100 this year Part of the GI Generation
You arrived the year television flickered into existence.
1926
The world you arrived into
culture
Winnie-the-Pooh was published
A.A. Milne’s bear of very little brain made his first appearance in print in October 1926.
culture
Harry Houdini died
The world’s most famous escapologist died in Detroit on 31 October 1926, aged 52.
1926
Technology looked very different
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The first public demonstration of television
In a London room in January 1926, John Logie Baird showed moving images to the public for the first time.
1926
People who share your birth year
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The future Queen Elizabeth II was born
Princess Elizabeth arrived on 21 April 1926, third in line to a throne nobody expected her to inherit.
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