October 1926: Difference between revisions

{{Events by month|1926}}

{{calendar|year=1926|month=October}}

 

The following events occurred in '''October 1926''':

==Friday, October 1==

*English pilot [[Alan Cobham]] landed his [[de Haviland]] seaplane on the [[River Thames]] to complete a 28,000-mile flight from England to Australia and back.<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c.">{{cite book |last=Mercer |first=Derrik |date=1989 |title=Chronicle of the 20th Century |location=London |publisher=Chronicle Communications Ltd. |pages=346–347 |isbn=978-0-582-03919-3 }}</ref>

 

==Saturday, October 2==

*[[Jozef Pilsudski]] became Prime Minister of Poland.

*The drama film ''[[The Ice Flood (1926 film)|The Ice Flood]]'' opened.

 

==Sunday, October 3==

*Father [[Charles Coughlin]] began his weekly sermons on station [[WJR]] in Detroit.<ref>Barnhill, John H. "Jazz Age Evangelism". ''Jazz Age: People and Perspectives''. Ed. Mitchell Newton-Maza and Peter C. Mancall. ABC CLIO, 2009. p. 68. {{ISBN|978-1-59884-033-9}}.</ref>

 

==Monday, October 4==

*The Mexican rebellion spread to southern [[Guanajuato]] as former general Rodolfo Gallegos led an uprising there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/286-cristero-rebellion-part-1-toward-the-abyss |title=Cristero Rebellion: part 1 – toward the abyss |last=Tuck |first=Jim |date=1997 |website=Mexconnect |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Senaida Wirth]], baseball player, in [[Tampa, Florida]] (d. 1967)

 

==Tuesday, October 5==

*The [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] play ''Days of the Turbins'' premièred at the [[Moscow Art Theatre]].

 

==Wednesday, October 6==

*Pennsylvania [[blue law]]s from 1794 were invoked in Pittsburgh, banning all Sunday sports in the city of Pittsburgh.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 7, 1926 |title=Sunday Sports Barred by Law in Pittsburgh | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=19 }}</ref>

 

==Thursday, October 7==

*'''Born:''' [[Czeslaw Ryll-Nardzewski]], mathematician, in [[Wilno]], [[Second Polish Republic]]

*'''Died:''' [[Emil Kraepelin]], 70, German psychiatrist

 

==Friday, October 8==

*German General [[Hans von Seeckt]] was forced to resign as head of the ''[[Reichswehr]]'' after republicans objected to his permitting [[Prince Wilhelm of Prussia|Prince Wilhelm]] to take part in military maneuvers in the uniform of the old Imperial First Foot Guards without first getting permission from the government.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 9, 1926 |title=Germany Seeks Army Chief Who Pleases Allies | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=12 }}</ref>

 

==Saturday, October 9==

*[[Benito Mussolini]] made himself the head of Italy's national militia, giving him personal command of all the armed forces in the country.<ref>{{cite news |last=Clayton |first=John |date=October 10, 1926 |title=Mussolini's Rule of Italy Made Absolute | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=18 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Ruth Ellis]], murderer, in [[Rhyl]], England (d. 1955)

 

==Sunday, October 10==

*The [[Kuomintang]] captured [[Wuchang District|Wuchang]] after a forty-day siege.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bowman |editor1-first=John Stewart |date=2000 |title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture |url=https://archive.org/details/columbiachronolo00john|url-access=registration |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/columbiachronolo00john/page/62 62] |isbn=0-231-11004-9 }}</ref>

*The drama film ''[[The Temptress]]'' starting [[Greta Garbo]] opened.

 

==Monday, October 11==

*The [[Conservative Party of Canada (historical)|Conservative Party of Canada]] elected [[Hugh Guthrie]] as their new leader. Previous leader [[Arthur Meighen]] had resigned after the Conservatives were defeated in the September 14 [[1926 Canadian federal election|federal election]].<ref>{{cite news |date=October 12, 1926 |title=Guthrie Picked by Tories of Canada as New Leader | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=20 }}</ref>

*'''Died:''' [[Hymie Weiss]], 28, American gangster (shot)

 

==Tuesday, October 12==

*The Condé Diamond, a famous rose-coloured diamond that once belonged to the seventeenth century general [[Louis, Grand Condé]], was stolen along with other valuables from the Condé Museum in [[Chantilly, Oise|Chantilly]], France. Ladders were used to scale the exterior wall and the gem tower and the glass was cut from the windows.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wales |first=Henry |date=October 13, 1926 |title=$2,000,000 Pink Diamond Gone; Mystery | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 }}</ref>

 

==Wednesday, October 13==

*The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that [[daylight saving time]] was constitutional. Several Massachusetts labor unions had brought forward a case arguing that it was unconstitutional because the confusion that it caused with train scheduling resulted in pecuniary loss and was "otherwise obnoxious".<ref>{{cite news |date=October 14, 1926 |title=U.S. Supreme Court Rules Daylight Saving is Legal | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/272/272.US.525.296.html |title=272 U.S. 525 – Massachusetts State Grange et al. v. Benton, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |website=[[Public.Resource.Org]] |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

*[[Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa (1872–1942)|Sheikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa]], the Deputy Ruler of Bahrain at the time, survived an assassination attempt as his Hudson car drove above a bridge over a small creek in the village of Sanabis. The perpetrators hid behind a hedge, and was captured after nearly three years of police investigation headed by Haji Sulman bin Jasim and the Amir of [[Muharraq]], Mohamed bin Jabr. They were identified as Hassawis, from the province of Al-Hasa in what is now Saudi Arabia.

*Comments from British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MP [[Alfred Salter]] were published in the ''[[Daily Express]]'' in which he said that drunkenness was a frequent sight in the House of Commons.<ref name="hansard">{{cite web |url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1926/oct/26/privilege-complaint-of-members-speech#S5CV0199P0_19261026_HOC_116 |title=Privilege (Complaint of Member's Speech). |website=[[Hansard]] |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Jesse L. Brown]], United States Navy officer, in [[Hattiesburg, Mississippi]] (d. 1950); [[Killer Kowalski|Walter "Killer" Kowalski]], professional wrestler, in [[Windsor, Ontario]], Canada (d. 2008); [[Kazuo Nakamura]], Japanese-Canadian painter, in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia (d. 2002); and [[Eddie Yost]], baseball player, in [[Brooklyn]], New York (d. 2012)

 

==Thursday, October 14==

*In the United Kingdom, [[H.H. Asquith]] resigned as leader of the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]]. He was replaced by [[David Lloyd George]].

*The [[F. W. Murnau]] film ''[[Faust (1926 film)|Faust]]'' had its German premiere at the [[Ufa-Palast am Zoo]] in Berlin.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hedges |first=Inez |date=2005 |title=Framing Faust: Twentieth Century Cultural Struggles |url=https://archive.org/details/framingfausttwen00hedg|url-access=limited |location=Carbondale, Illinois |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/framingfausttwen00hedg/page/n53 35] |isbn=0-8093-2903-4 }}</ref>

 

==Friday, October 15==

*The International Congress of Expert Surveyors convened in Geneva to standardize [[surveying]] techniques around the world.<ref name="chronology 1926">{{cite web |url=http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1926.htm |title=Chronology 1926 |date=2002 |website=indiana.edu |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Michel Foucault]], philosopher, in [[Poitiers]], France (d. 1984); [[Karl Richter (conductor)|Karl Richter]], conductor, in [[Plauen]], Germany (d. 1981); and [[Jean Peters]], actress, in [[East Canton, Ohio]] (d. 2000)

 

==Saturday, October 16==

*The ammunition on the Chinese troopship ''Kuang Yuang'' exploded near [[Kiukiang]], China, killing 1,200.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 17, 1926 |title=1,200 Killed as Shells Explode on Burning Ship | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=20 }}</ref>

*'''Died:''' [[Princess Frederica of Hanover]], 78

 

==Sunday, October 17==

*The film ''[[The Great K & A Train Robbery]]'' opened.

*'''Born:''' [[Julie Adams]], actress, in [[Waterloo, Iowa]]; and [[Beverly Garland]], actress, in [[Santa Cruz, California]] (d. 2008)

 

==Monday, October 18==

*Queen [[Marie of Romania]] arrived in New York on the SS ''[[SS Leviathan|Leviathan]]''on the first day of her visit to the United States and Canada; she was welcomed with a [[ticker tape parade]] attended by thousands.<ref name="kent">{{cite web |url=http://www.library.kent.edu/queen-marie-collection |title=Queen Marie's Trip to America and Canada |last=Wachalec |first=Stephanie |date=October 22, 2002 |website=Queen Marie Collection |publisher=[[Kent State University]] |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Chuck Berry]], American rock and roll musician, in [[St. Louis]] (d. 2017); [[Klaus Kinski]], actor, in [[Sopot]], [[Free City of Danzig]] (d. 1991); and [[Pauline Pirok]], baseball player, in [[Chicago]], Illinois (d. 2020)

*'''Died:''' [[James Carroll (New Zealand politician)|James Carroll]], 69, New Zealand politician

 

==Tuesday, October 19==

*Queen [[Marie of Romania]] formally dined at the White House with [[Calvin Coolidge|U.S. President]] and [[Grace Coolidge|Mrs. Coolidge]].<ref name="kent" />

*'''Died:''' [[Victor Babes]], Romanian bacteriologist, 72

 

==Wednesday, October 20==

*[[Ignaz Seipel]] replaced [[Rudolf Ramek]] as [[Chancellor of Austria]].

*'''Died:''' [[Eugene V. Debs]], 70, American labor and political leader

 

==Thursday, October 21==

*[[Italian Minister of the Interior]] [[Luigi Federzoni]] issued an order forbidding actors on stage from making jokes about the Italian army.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 22, 1926 |title=Actors Forbidden to Make Jokes About Italian Army | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=6 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Bob Rosburg]], golfer, in San Francisco, California (d. 2009)

 

==Friday, October 22==

*The [[1926 Kars earthquake|Kars earthquake]] struck Turkey and Armenia.

*'''Born:''' [[Gloria Carter Spann]], sister of U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]], in [[Plains, Georgia]] (d. 1990)

 

==Saturday, October 23==

*[[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Lev Kamenev]] were removed from the [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].

*Judge [[Webster Thayer]] denied the motion for a new trial in the [[Sacco and Vanzetti]] murder case, saying the evidence was not sufficient.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 24, 1926 |title=Sacco and Vanzetti Denied New Trial | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 }}</ref>

*The [[Fazal Mosque]], the first purpose-built in London and the first [[Ahmadiyya]] [[mosque]] in Britain, was completed.

 

==Sunday, October 24==

*The radio program ''[[The Standard Hour]]'' was first broadcast on the NBC Pacific Network.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-standard-symphony1 |title=The Standard Symphony |website=[[Peabody Award|The Peabody Awards]] |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

*[[Harry Houdini]] gave his final performance at the [[Garrick Theatre]] in Detroit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanmuseumofmagic.org/magicdetroitdeathhoudini.htm |title=Detroit – The Death of Harry Houdini |website=[[American Museum of Magic]] |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

 

==Monday, October 25==

*The U.S. Supreme Court decided ''[[Myers v. United States]]'', upholding the President's authority to remove executive appointees without the approval of the Senate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=272&invol=52 |title=Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926) |website=[[FindLaw]] |publisher=[[Thomson Reuters]] |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Galina Vishnevskaya]], opera singer, in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] (d. 2012)

 

==Tuesday, October 26==

*Queen [[Marie of Romania]]'s tour entered Canada with visits to [[Niagara Falls]] and [[Hamilton, Ontario]].<ref name="kent" />

*British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MP [[Alfred Salter]] was censured in the House of Commons for refusing to retract remarks of his that appeared in the ''[[Daily Express]]''. "I am not prepared to withdraw, modify or apologise for anything I have said on this matter, and I propose to repeat the words I made use of and about which complaint has been made", Salter declared. "I said, and I repeat it here to-day, that I have seen members of all parties in this House, my own party I regret to say included, drunk in this House not on one occasion but on many." A motion was passed calling the statement "a gross libel on the Members of this House and a grave breach of its privileges."<ref name="hansard" />

 

==Wednesday, October 27==

*In a speech made before the [[American Association of Advertising Agencies]] and broadcast on the radio, President [[Calvin Coolidge]] said that American prosperity was the result of "our high rate of wages which brings about the greatest distribution of wealth that the world has ever seen and provides the enormous capacity for the consumption of all kinds of commodities which characterizes our country." He also said that while wages were high, "that means that the results of prosperity are going more and more into the homes of the land and less into the enrichment of the few, more and more to the men and women and less and less to the capital which is engaged in our economic life. If this were not so the country would not support 20 million automobiles, purchase so many radios, and install so many telephones."<ref>{{cite news |date=October 28, 1926 |title=Wages Boom U.S.: Coolidge | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|pages=1–2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=412 |title=Address Before the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Washington, D.C. |last1=Woolley |first1=John |last2=Peters |first2=Gerhard |website=The American Presidency Project |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

 

==Thursday, October 28==

*[[Pope Pius XI]] [[consecration|consecrated]] the first six Chinese bishops since the seventeenth century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chen |first=John Shujie |date=2004 |title=Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing: Catholic Higher Education in China |location=New York |publisher=RoutledgeFalmer |isbn=0-203-46394-3 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Bowie Kuhn]], baseball commissioner, in [[Takoma Park, Maryland]] (d. 2007)

 

==Friday, October 29==

*A contract was signed between Prussia and the deposed [[House of Hohenzollern]], settling the estates of [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]]. 20 of the 60 formerly royal castles were deemed to be family property, and 32 million marks and 24,000 Dutch guilders were also paid out.<ref>Röhl, John C.G. "The Unicorn in Winter: Kaiser Wilhelm II in Exile in the Netherlands, 1918–1941". ''Monarchy in Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II''. Ed. Philip Mansell and Torsten Riotte. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. p. 339.</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Necmettin Erbakan]], Prime Minister of Turkey, in [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinop]] (d. 2011); and [[Jon Vickers]], tenor, in [[Prince Albert, Saskatchewan]]

 

==Saturday, October 30==

*Nicaraguan President [[Emiliano Chamorro]] deposited the Presidency upon Senator [[Sebastián Uriza]] to serve as a transitional leader until a new government could be elected.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/countries/nicaragua |title=A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, Since 1776: Nicaragua |website=[[Office of the Historian]] |publisher=[[United States Department of State]] |access-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 31, 1926 |title=Chamorro Bows to U.S.; Quits as Nicaragua Head | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=27 }}</ref>

*'''Born:''' [[Lois Wyse]], advertising executive and author, in [[Cleveland]], Ohio (d. 2007)

 

==Sunday, October 31==

*'''Born:''' [[Jimmy Savile]], DJ and television personality, in [[Leeds]], England (d. 2011)

*'''Died:''' [[Harry Houdini]], 52, Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer; [[Charles Vance Millar]], 72 or 73, Canadian businessman; and [[Anteo Zamboni]], 15, Italian anarchist

 

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