1926
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Events
Dated Events
- Cthulhu Mythos: January 14. Bizarre activity surges around a total solar eclipse. (The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep by Larry DiTillo and Lynn Willis)
- Real World: January 26. An early, simple television system is demonstrated by John Baird.
- Real World: March 16. The first liquid-fueled rocket is launched from Auburn, Massachusetts, by Robert Goddard.
- Real World: May 9. Richard Byrd claims to have flown over the North Pole. (This claim has come into doubt in recent years.)
- Real World: May 12. Roald Amundsen makes the first verified flight over the North Pole.
- Doctor Who, Doctor Who (Expanded Universe): June 4. The SS Bernice is kidnapped from the Indian Ocean by a Miniscope that later falls into the hands of Vorg. ("Carnival of Monsters")
- Real World: July 23. The patents for the Movietone system for making sound films are bought by Fox Film.
- Real World: August 6. Don Juan, the first Vitaphone sound film, is released in New York by Warner Brothers.
- Cthulhu Mythos: October 31. Lavinia Whateley vanishes; she may have been killed by her own son. ("The Dunwich Horror" by H.P. Lovecraft)
- Real World: October 31. Harry Houdini dies from a ruptured appendix.
- Real World: November 10. Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.
Undated Events
- Cthulhu Mythos: A half-mad Justin Geoffrey reappears with the manuscript for his book of poetry, People of the Monolith. Committed to an insane asylum, Geoffrey will later die there. ("The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard; "The Thing on the Doorstep" by H.P. Lovecraft; Call of Cthulhu 6th Ed. by Sandy Petersen and Lynn Willis; The Keeper's Companion by Keith Herber)
- Cthulhu Mythos: Nahum Gardner's farm- the site where a Colour Out of Space landed in 1882- is submerged beneath the new Arkham reservoir. ("The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft)
- Cthulhu Mythos: Richard Upton Pickman disappears. ("History of the Necronomicon" by H.P. Lovecraft)
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
The Castle by Franz Kafka.
Notable Films
The Black Pirate, Faust, Metropolis, The Sorrows of Satan, Student of Prague.
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