Editing 1926 (section)

===December===
{{Main|December 1926}}
[[File:Emperor Showa.jpg|thumbnail|180px|right|[[December 25]]: Emperor [[Hirohito]]]]
* [[December 2]] &ndash; British prime minister [[Stanley Baldwin]] ends the [[state of emergency]] that had been declared due to the miners' strike.
* [[December 3]] &ndash; English detective story writer [[Agatha Christie]] disappears from her home in Surrey; on [[December 14]] she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a [[Harrogate]] hotel.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the [[Campaign to Protect Rural England]] (CPRE), is founded by [[Patrick Abercrombie]] to limit [[urban sprawl]] and ribbon development.
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Miina Sillanpää]] becomes [[Finland]]'s first female government minister.
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[1926 Lithuanian coup d'état]]: A democratically elected government is overthrown in [[Lithuania]]; [[Antanas Smetona]] assumes power.
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Turkey]] converts to the [[Gregorian calendar]], making the next day [[January 1]], [[1927]].
* [[December 23]] &ndash; Nicaraguan President [[Adolfo Díaz]] requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing [[Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27)|civil war]]. American peacekeeping troops immediately set up neutral zones in [[Puerto Cabezas]] and at the mouth of the [[Rio Grande]] to protect American and foreign lives and property.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/western-hemisphere-region/nicaragua-1909-present |title = Nicaragua (1909-present) |website = [[University of Central Arkansas]] |access-date = January 3, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="tribune Dec. 24, 1926">{{cite news |date = December 24, 1926 |title = U.S. Troops Take 2 Nicaraguan Ports |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 1 }}</ref>
* [[December 26]]
** In the [[history of Japan]], the [[Shōwa period]] begins from this day, due to the death of [[Emperor Taishō]] on the day before. His son [[Hirohito]] will reign as [[Emperor of Japan]] until [[1989]].<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōwa". {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 888|page=888}}.</ref>
** World première of Finnish composer [[Jean Sibelius]]'s [[tone poem]] ''[[Tapiola (Sibelius)|Tapiola]]'' by [[Walter Damrosch]] and the [[New York Philharmonic]], the last substantial composition to be made public by the composer for the remaining 30 years of his life.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Sibelius' Works of the 1920s|url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm|accessdate=2009-04-18|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815004023/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>