What Happened on November 18, 1926

Historical Events

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the prize money, saying "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize"

Chemist, Engineer and Innovator Alfred Nobel

On persecution of Church in Mexico

Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico

Famous Birthdays

Dorothy Collins [Marjorie Chandler], Canadian-American singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), born in Windsor, Ontario (d. 1994)
Estanislao Basora, Spanish footballer (The Monster of Colombes, 22 caps for Spain, 301 matches for Barcelona), born in Barcelona, Catalonia (d. 2012)
Kim Besly, Peace activist (Greenham Common) (d. 1996)

Born in 1926

1926 Highlights