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September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion today). September 20 – Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.
1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... March 12 – E. W. Scripps, American newspaper publisher (b. 1854)
United States Daily started on March 4, 1926. Rival publication Time magazine reported that, "A daily tabulation of Government news, presented without comment or color, it was the dullest newspaper in the land. To a limited group of businessmen, lawyers, teachers, editors, officials it was also the most useful."
January 26, 1926: John Logie Baird demonstrates his television camera. January 8, 1926: Ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz, later Saudi Arabia. January 31, 1926: Prime Minister Benito Mussolini is given the power to rule Italy by decree. January 8, 1926: Bao Dai becomes Emperor of Vietnam. The following events occurred in January 1926:
The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 [1] was a large and intense tropical cyclone that devastated the Greater Miami area of Florida and caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 1926, accruing a US$100 million damage toll.
The National Hockey League officially added the Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Cougars (now the Red Wings) and New York Rangers to the league as new teams for the 1926–27 season. [39] Henry Ford introduced the eight-hour day and five-day workweek. [40] The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolished all types of slavery.
A policeman in Bahrain shot and killed a superintendent policeman who mistreated him, and managed through the shooting in tearing off a piece of the Political Agent Colonel Daly's ear. Colonel Daly apprehended the shooter and hit him with a bayonet. The incident imposed strict martial law in Bahrain through August and September 1926.
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