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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. Only one of Capone's men is wounded. September 25 – The Detroit Cougars, a professional ice hockey club ( National Hockey League ) and predecessor of the Detroit Red Wings , is founded.
1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
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The Funkturm Berlin radio tower was inaugurated on the occasion of the 3. Große Deutsche Funkausstellung (3rd Great German Radio Exhibition).; Rudolph Valentino's funeral train pulled into LaSalle Street Station in Chicago.
Kehoe had free access to the school building during the summer vacation of 1926. [21] From mid-1926, he began buying more than a ton of pyrotol, an incendiary explosive used by farmers during the era for excavation and burning debris. In November 1926 he drove to Lansing and bought two boxes of dynamite at a sporting goods store. [24]
Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin had been seizing parts of the railway line and arresting Soviet officials in retaliation for a decision that made Chinese troops pay half-fare instead of being allowed to ride for free. [18] The dispute was a precursor to the Sino Soviet Conflict of 1929. Born: Fritz Weaver, actor, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d ...
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1948 – U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman is elected president for a full term, Alben W. Barkley is elected vice president; 1948 – Truman desegregates armed forces; 1948 – Selective Service Act of 1948: Passed after first such act expired; 1948 – Organization of American States: Alliance of North America and South America