Editing 1926 in television

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The year '''1926 in television''' involved some significant events.
Below is a list of [[television]]-related events during 1926.
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==Global television events==
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| January || 26 || [[John Logie Baird]] demonstrates the world's first [[television]] system to transmit live, moving images with tone graduations, to 40&nbsp;members of the [[Royal Institution]]. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.
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| August || 18 || A [[weather map]] is televised for the first time, sent from [[NAA (Arlington, Virginia)|NAA]] Arlington to the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] in Washington, D.C.
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| December || 25 || Japanese researcher [[Kenjiro Takayanagi]] demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a [[cathode-ray tube]] in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.<ref>The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in [[Japan]], [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/ Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101180643/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/ |date=January 1, 2016 }}.</ref>
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==Births==
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| January 8 || [[Soupy Sales]] || U.S. comedian and actor (died 2009)
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| February 6 || [[Bob Trow]] || U.S. actor (died 1998)
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| February 20 || [[Whitney Blake]] || U.S. actress (''[[Hazel (TV series)|Hazel]]'') (died 2002)
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| March 1 || [[Robert Clary]] || French-U.S. actor (''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'') (died 2022)
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| March 16 || [[Jerry Lewis]] || U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017)
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| March 30 || [[Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall]] || Game show host (died 2024)
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| April 18 || [[Harold Hayes]] || U.S. broadcaster (died 1989)
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| April 22 || [[Charlotte Rae]] || U.S. actress (''[[The Facts of Life (TV series)|The Facts of Life]]'') (died 2018)
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| April 30 || [[Cloris Leachman]] || U.S. actress (''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', ''[[Phyllis (TV series)|Phyllis]]'', ''[[Raising Hope]]'') (died 2021)
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| May 5 || [[Ann B. Davis]] || U.S. actress (''[[The Brady Bunch]]'') (died 2014)
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|rowspan="2"| May 8 || Sir [[David Attenborough]] || British naturalist, documentary-maker and television executive
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| [[Don Rickles]] || U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017)
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| May 25 || [[Claude Akins]] || Actor (died 1994)
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| May 26 || [[Regis Cordic]] || Actor (died 1999)
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| May 29 || [[Katie Boyle]] || Italian-born British television personality ([[Eurovision Song Contest]]) (died 2018)
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| June 1 || [[Andy Griffith]] || U.S. actor, producer (''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'') (died 2012)
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| June 10 || [[Joe Negri]] || U.S. Jazz guitarist
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| June 28 || [[Mel Brooks]] || U.S. comedy writer, actor, director, producer (''[[Get Smart]]'')
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| July 10 || [[Fred Gwynne]] || U.S. actor (''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]]'', ''[[The Munsters]]'') (died 1993)
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| October 11 || [[Earle Hyman]] || U.S. actor (''[[The Cosby Show]]'', ''[[ThunderCats (1985 TV series)|ThunderCats]]'') (died 2017)
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| October 17 || [[Julie Adams]] || U.S. actress (''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'') (died 2019)
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| November 9 || [[Johnny Beattie]] || Scottish actor (died 2020)
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| November 13 || [[Jim Jensen (reporter)|Jim Jensen]] || U.S. anchor (died 1999)
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| November 25 || [[Jeffrey Hunter]] || U.S. actor (''[[Temple Houston (TV series)|Temple Houston]]'', ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'') (died 1969)
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| November 30 || [[Richard Crenna]] || U.S. actor (died 2003)
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| December 1 || [[Keith Michell]] || actor (died 2015)
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| December 17 || [[Patrice Wymore]] || U.S. actress (died 2014)
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| December 19 || [[Herb Stempel]] || U.S. television game show contestant (died 2020)
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==References==
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{{Years in TV by country|1926}}
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