September 1926

September 1, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • In Spain, 100 were killed in flooding from storms that followed a fifty-five-day drought.[1]
  • The standoff continued in Wanhsien as the gunboat Widgeon arrived carrying the British Consul from Chongqing in response to HMS Cockchafer's call of the previous day.[2][3][4]

September 2, 1926 (Thursday)

  • The funeral train of Rudolph Valentino left New York on a cross-country journey to his final resting place in California.[5]
  • The Italian government and the Imam of Yemen signed a Treaty of Friendship.[6]
  • Some 20,000 Chinese troops under General Yang Sen assembled with artillery along the shoreline of Wanhsien.[2]
  • Born: Ibrahim Nasir, Prime Minister of the Maldives (d. 2008)

September 3, 1926 (Friday)

September 4, 1926 (Saturday)

  • The council body unanimously accepted a resolution to admit Germany to the League with a permanent seat. Spain turned down a semi-permanent council seat at the League of Nations; it wanted a permanent one.[9]
  • Born: Bert Olmstead, hockey player, in Sceptre, Saskatchewan, Canada

September 5, 1926 (Sunday)

  • A camouflaged and armored merchant ship SS Kiawo sailed into Wanhsien bearing a naval crew and attempted to board the Chinese-occupied merchant ship Wanhsien. It came under fire from the Chinese troops on shore, and the gunboats Cockchafer and Widgeon returned fire. Once the hostages from the Wahnsien and Wantung had escaped, the gunboats also shelled the merchant ships heavily so they would no longer be seaworthy in Chinese hands, and then the British ships retired. There were approximately 22 casualties on the British side, 250 dead on the Chinese side and 100 civilians killed in the crossfire. The altercation led to a major diplomatic row as the Chinese claimed that they had suffered thousands of casualties and that the British had shelled Wahnsien itself in violation of international law (the city was ablaze at four points).[10][11][12]
  • Rudolph Valentino's final film The Son of the Sheik went into general release.[13]
  • In Spain, the officers of the Artillery Corps staged a collective protest by shutting themselves within their barracks. They were angry about the system that promoted officers by election rather than seniority.[14] King Alfonso XIII declared martial law throughout the country and the officers were swiftly arrested.[15]
  • A timber barn being used as a temporary cinema in Dromcolliher, Ireland caught fire when a candle ignited a reel of film stock. 48 died in the tragedy.

September 6, 1926 (Monday)

September 7, 1926 (Tuesday)

September 8, 1926 (Wednesday)

September 9, 1926 (Thursday)

  • About 1,000 Greek rebels, many still loyal to the deposed Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos, attacked government troops in Athens. Many civilians were caught in the crossfire as government troops counter-attacked and the revolt was put down.[19]

September 10, 1926 (Friday)

September 11, 1926 (Saturday)

September 12, 1926 (Sunday)

September 13, 1926 (Monday)

September 14, 1926 (Tuesday)

September 15, 1926 (Wednesday)

September 16, 1926 (Thursday)

September 17, 1926 (Friday)

  • Film stars Mabel Normand and Lew Cody were married.[27]
  • A great hurricane hit the Bahamas heading for Florida.[28]
  • In the French border village of Thoiry, Foreign Ministers Aristide Briand of France and Gustav Stresemann of Germany held a conference to discuss various points of contention between the two countries. Tentative agreements were reached on the rest of the Rhineland and the Saar being returned to Germany in exchange for reparations payments, but no treaties resulted as the agreements were widely protested by the public, particularly in France.[29]

September 18, 1926 (Saturday)

  • A Category 4 hurricane struck Miami, Florida in the early morning hours. An estimated $100 million damage was done and many buildings in downtown Miami were destroyed.[28][30]
  • Greece and Poland signed a Treaty of Friendship.[6]

September 19, 1926 (Sunday)

September 20, 1926 (Monday)

September 21, 1926 (Tuesday)

September 22, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • Thomas Edison declared the radio a commercial failure, saying, "There isn't 10 percent of the interest in radio that there was last year. It's a highly complicated machine in the hands of people who know nothing about it. No dealers have made any money out of it. It isn't a commercial machine, because it is complicated ... The phonograph is coming back into its own, because the people want good music."[34]

September 23, 1926 (Thursday)

September 24, 1926 (Friday)

September 25, 1926 (Saturday)

September 26, 1926 (Sunday)

September 27, 1926 (Monday)

September 28, 1926 (Tuesday)

September 29, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • The 43 trapped miners in the Pabst Mine Disaster were rescued.[40]
  • Rebellion broke out in Durango.[39]
  • Born: Russ Heath, illustrator, in New York City

September 30, 1926 (Thursday)

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