November 1926

Wednesday 10:

Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan

Monday 15:

The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

Thursday 18:

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

Saturday 27:

In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.