The tennis match of the decade occurs at Cannes, France with the meeting of the two dominant women players of the era, France's Suzanne Lenglen and the U.S.'s Helen Wills. The two would never play each other again. The Kodak Co. produces the first 16 millimeter movie film. Lufthansa airlines founded in Germany. The Weary Blues is published.
Surrealist gallery opens in Paris.
The first compound fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are manufactured in Britain. Milne's Winnie the Pooh is published. The Internal Constitution of the Stars is published. Aerosol spray invented by Rotheim in Norway. The canine, Rin Tin Tin, is the biggest box office star of 1926.