Timeline November 1926

Events in November 1926 5

• 1860 – 1926 Annie Oakley (1860-1926) Died 3 November 1926, aged 66 Annie Oakley, the sharpshooter who had risen to fame in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, died in Ohio after a long illness linked to injuries from a 1901 train crash. She remained the best-known female marksman in American popular memory.
• 1926 Balfour Declaration on Dominion status Imperial Conference redefines the British Commonwealth The 1926 Imperial Conference in London concluded on 18 November with the Balfour Declaration, which recognised Britain and its self-governing Dominions as equal in status, "in no way subordinate one to another." The formula became the basis for the 1931 Statute of Westminster and the modern Commonwealth.
• 1926 – 2011 Sathya Sai Baba (1926-2011) Died 24 April 2011, aged 84 The Indian guru attracted millions of followers worldwide and founded a network of hospitals, schools, and charitable institutions. He was regarded by devotees as a spiritual leader with miraculous powers, a claim disputed by skeptics. He died in Puttaparthi, India, where his ashram drew huge crowds of mourners.
• 1926 – 2024 Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-2024) Died 4 August 2024, aged 97 Chinese-born American physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for showing that parity is not conserved.
• 1926 – 1927 1927 World Snooker Championship The Inaugural Championship The first world championship. Winner: Joe Davis; Runner-up: Tom Dennis. Score: 20–11.