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next turn year 1926

events

September[edit] Main article: September 1926

Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor, in the Territory of Hawai'i. In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt.

September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 are ratified in Geneva, and come into effect.

September 16 – Philip Dunning and George Abbott's play Broadway premieres in New York City.

September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion today).

September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, well known among sports venues in Italy, officially opens in Milan.[7]

September 20 – The North Side Gang attempts to assassinate Al Capone, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm.[8][9]

September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed.

September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey, and becomes heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

September 25 The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.

William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the Canadian federal election.

The Detroit Cougars, a professional ice hockey club (National Hockey League) and predecessor to the Detroit Red Wings, is founded.[10]

October[edit] Main article: October 1926 October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland.

October 12 – British miners agree to end their strike.

October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.

October 20 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.

October 23

A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office.

The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed.

October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis, that has developed after his appendix ruptured.

November[edit] Main article: November 1926 November 8 – The APOEL FC is founded in Cyprus.

November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.

November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.

November 15 The NBC Radio Network opens, with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).

The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.

November 24 The village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.

Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving The Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, India.

November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy.

November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies are arrested.

November 27 – The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins in Williamsburg, Virginia. December[edit]

Main article: December 1926

December 25: Emperor Hirohito

December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared, due to the general strike.

December 3 – Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel.

December 7 – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) is founded (now the Campaign to Protect Rural England).

December 17 – 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état: A democratically elected government is overthrown in Lithuania; Antanas Smetona assumes power.

December 18 – Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar, making the next day January 1 1927.

December 23 – Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing 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.[11][12]