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By Barry Boyce, CyclingRevealed
Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March
21 1926 |
Milan-San
Remo |
Costante
Girardengo (Ita) |
286.5
km |
| March
21, 1926 |
Tour
of Flanders |
Denis
Verschueren (Bel) |
217
km |
| April
4, 1926 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Julien
Delbecque (Bel) |
270
km |
| May 2, 1926 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Dieudonne
Smets (Bel) |
231
km |
| May 15-June 6, 1926 |
Giro
d'Italia |
Giovanni
Brunero (Ita) |
12
Stages, 3,329 km |
| June 20-July 18, 1926 |
Tour
de France |
Lucien
Buysse (Bel) |
17
Stages, 5,745 km |
| October
31, 1926 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Alfredo
Binda (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
251 km |
- England - 1926, Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle became the sixth
person and first woman to swim the English Channel. Her time
(14.5 hours) for the 35-mile swim was nearly 2 hour faster
than the record.
- Italy - April 7, 1926, there was a failed assassination attempt against
Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini.
- Hollywood
Hunk - Italian immigrant Rudolf Valentino died at the age
of
31. “Those lips, those eyes…” Valentino became the first ‘Hollywood
Hunk’. Thirty thousand women lined the streets and mobbed his funeral.
- July
23, 1926 - Fox Film bought the patent company of the Movietone,
which set the way for recording sound systems onto film.
- USA - General
Electric, RCA, and Westinghouse founded NBC, National Broadcast
Company.
Notable
Deaths-
Ehrich Weiss, 1874-1926, He performed as Harry Houdini, one of the most famous magicians and escapologists of all times, died October
31.
Annie Oakley, 1860-1926, was a star sharpshooter with the Buffalo Bill Wild
West Show. As the trick shooting Peerless Lady Wing-Shot, she got top billing
in the
show.
1925
1927
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