Today in History for September 1926

Months in 1926: January February March April May June July August October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 41 of 41

1st - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1st - Turkey allows civil marriage
2nd - Italy signs treaty with Yemen
8th - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany
9th - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
9th - Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
9th - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
10th - Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
10th - Germany joins League of Nations
11th - 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)
11th - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
11th - Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
11th - US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
11th - Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
14th - Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
15th - Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini
16th - -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
16th - Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
16th - Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 16th - St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
17th - Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
18th - 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
18th - Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
18th - Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open
19th - 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
19th - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
22nd - Belgian crown prince Leopold & Swedish princess Astrid get engaged
23rd - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
24th - Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
25th - 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY
25th - Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms
25th - Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
25th - International slavery convention signed by 20 states
25th - NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford 25th - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
25th - Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
26th - JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in London
26th - Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
28th - Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed
29th - Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
30th - German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 57 of 57

1st - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
3rd - Alison Lurie, US, novelist (War Between the Tates)
3rd - Anne Jackson, Penn, actress (Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine)
3rd - Bill Flemming, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
3rd - Irene Papas, Corinth Greece, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek, Attila The Hun)
3rd - Joe Kolter, (Rep-D-PA, 1983- )
3rd - John R[obert] Jones, US, sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War)
4th - Robert J Lagomarsino, (Rep-R-CA, 1974- )
4th - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player
6th - Arthur William Oldham, composer
6th - Claus von Amsberg, prince of Netherlands
7th - Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
9th - Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian
9th - Jake Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
9th - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
10th - Beryl Cook, British painter
11th - Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station)
11th - Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation
11th - Lee Richardson, Chicago, actor (Sweet Lorraine, Fly 2, Tiger Warsaw)
11th - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
13th - Emile Francis, NHL player/coach/GM (Rangers, Blues, Whalers)
14th - Hovhannes Gorgeni Ter-T'at'evosyan, composer
14th - Richard Elsasser, composer
15th - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
15th - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
15th - Edward Derwinski, Chicago, Illinois, American congressman for Chicago 1959-83, first Secretary of Veteran Affairs 1989-1992
16th - John Knowles, US writer (Morning in Antibes)
16th - Robert Schuller, televangelist (Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power)
16th - Tommy "Butch" Bond, actor (Butch-Our Gang)
17th - Bill Black, rocker
17th - Donald Acheson, England's chief medical officer
17th - Reginald Marsh, actor (Sicilians, It Happened Here)
18th - Bud Greenspan, documentary maker (Olympic Games)
18th - Bob Toski, American golfer
19th - Arthur Wills, composer
19th - Edwin "Duke" Snider, Bkln Dodger centerfielder (406 HRs)
19th - Lurieen Wallace, (Gov-D-Ala, 1966-68)
19th - Pierre Janssen, art museum director
19th - James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
21st - Donald A Glaser, physicist (Nobel-1960)
21st - Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
22nd - William O Smith, composer
23rd - John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist (Round Midnight)
25th - Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret)
25th - John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
25th - Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
25th - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
26th - Buland Al Haidary, poet
26th - Giuseppi Chiari, composer
26th - Imre Vincze, composer
26th - Julie London, Santa Rosa California, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency)
26th - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
27th - Jayne Meadows, Wu Chang China, Mrs Steve Allen, actr (Dark Delusion)
28th - Jerry Clower, Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road)
29th - Phyllis Taylor, educationist
30th - Peder Holm, composer
30th - Robin Roberts, pitcher (Phillies, Won 28 in 1952)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

5th - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
9th - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident
9th - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident
11th - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
14th - Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74
16th - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
17th - August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70
21st - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
25th - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)