August 1926

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August 22, 1926: The dictatorship of Greece's General Theodoros Pangalos is ended by General Georgios Kondylis.
August 23, 1926: U.S. film idol Rudolph Valentino dies after appendectomy

August 1, 1926 (Sunday)

Primo de Rivera
  • An assassination attempt against Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera failed in Barcelona when a thrown dagger narrowly missed his head as he rode in a car. A 34-year-old Catalan anarchist was arrested.[1]
  • In Italy's Northern League (Lega Nord) of soccer football, Juventus FC (17-3-2) of Group B defeated Bologna FC 1909 (17-4-1) of Group A, 2 goals to 1, after the teams had played to a 2-2 draw and a 0-0 draw in their two-game series. Juventus then played against SS Alba Roma, championship of the Southern League (Lega Sud) and overwhelmed them by a margin of 17 goals.
  • Born: Hannah Hauxwell, British farmer and television personality; in Baldersdale, North Riding of Yorkshire (d. 2018)
  • Died:
    • Israel Zangwill, 62, British Zionist, novelist and playwright [2]
    • Fanindra Bose, 38, India-born Scottish sculptor, died of a heart attack while fishing and drowned.

August 2, 1926 (Monday)

  • Amendments to the 1921 constitution of Poland took effect to give President Jozef Pilsudski increased powers and to minimize those of the nation's bicameral parliament. The provisions of the August Novelization (Nowela sierpniowa) provided that the president could dismiss the Sejm and the Senat at any time, though the Sejm could not vote for its own dissolution, and that President Pilsudski's decrees (rozporzadzenia), including a state budget, would have the effect of a statute unless rejected by the parliament.[3]
  • The Turkish freighter S.S. Bozkourt was torn apart when it was struck by the French passenger ship S.S. Lotus, and eight passengers drowned.[4] After the Lotus rescued the 10 survivors and transported them to Istanbul, the captain, Mr. Demons, Mr. Lotus was arrested by Turkish authorities and charged with liability for the deaths and the damage caused by the accident, giving rise to the "Lotus case", when the World Court of the League of Nations made a determination of whether Turkey or France had jurisdiction over a crime committed in international waters, with a ruling in 1927 that would lead to the Convention of the High Seas in 1958.
  • Italy enacted new austerity measures to fight poverty and redress the country's trade deficit. Pastry containing pure white flour was prohibited.[5]
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August 3, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • Some 400 armed Catholics barricaded themselves in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and exchanged gunfire with federal troops until they ran out of ammunition and surrendered. According to U.S. consular sources, 18 people were killed and 40 wounded.[11]
  • Italy banned any parades, ceremonies and public demonstrations that were not authorized as "effectively useful".[12]
  • The Mount Batur volcano on the island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia erupted for the first time since 1917, and destroyed the village of Karang Anyar, but the residents were able to evacuate safely.[13] The Pura Ulun temple, completed earlier in the year, was spared, although the lava stopped at the temple gates.[14]
  • London's first traffic lights came into operation at 11:25 in the morning at Piccadilly Circus. The eight signalling lights supplemented the existing group of traffic policemen in guiding drivers. According to London's Evening Express, "hundreds of people watched the red and green flickers in Piccadilly which told a dozen policemen when to raise and drop their arms."[15][16]
  • The grand jury in the Aimee Semple McPherson case reconvened to consider further testimony and evidence.[17]
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  • Died:
    • Vasil Kovachev, 60, Bulgarian zoologist and botanist[22]
    • Ernest Willows, 40, Welsh aviator, airship builder and pilot, was killed in an accident along with four other people while taking the group aloft in a balloon. The netting holding the basket to the rest of the balloon came loose and Willows and his passengers fell 60 feet (18 m) to their deaths.[23]

August 4, 1926 (Wednesday)

August 5, 1926 (Thursday)

Will H. Hays introducing Vitaphone

August 6, 1926 (Friday)

Ederle

August 7, 1926 (Saturday)

August 8, 1926 (Sunday)

  • Former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau weighed in on the Mellon–Berenger Agreement by publishing an open letter addressed to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Excerpts from the letter read, "You are claiming from us payment not of a debt of commerce but of war. You know, as we do, that our treasury is empty ... We are debtors, you are creditors. It seems this is regarded as purely a matter for the cashier's department, but are there no other considerations to be taken into account? ... Come to our villages and read the endless list of their dead and make comparisons, if you will. Was this not a 'bank account?' The loss of this vital force of youth? ... How is it we failed to foresee what is now happening? Why did we not halt under the shells and convoke a board meeting of profiteers to decide the question whether it would allow us to continue in defense of the finest conquest in the finest of histories?"[47]
  • In the first game of the two game series between the champions of Italy's northern and southern soccer football leagues, Juventus defeated Alba Roma, 12 goals to 1, meaning that Alba Roma would have to score 11 goals more than Juventus in the second game for the best aggregate score.
  • Born: Maulwi Saelan, captain of the Indonesian national soccer football team in the 1956 Summer Olympics (with 30 caps between 1956 and 19611), and Chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia from 1964 to 1967; in Makassar, Dutch East Indies (d.2016)[48]

August 9, 1926 (Monday)

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August 13, 1926 (Friday)

August 14, 1926 (Saturday)

  • The Soviet Union made a claim to ownership of Wrangel Island above the North Pole and asserted its sovereignty with the founding of the settlement of Ushakovskoye by an expedition led by Georgy Ushakov .Petit Fute, Chukotka, p.137
  • Mexican government agents, carrying out a purge of Roman Catholic clerics, arrived at the town Chalchihuites in the Zacatecas state, and arrested Father Luis Bátiz Sainz at a private house.[73] Batiz and three other Catholic activists were executed the next day.
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  • Died: John H. Moffitt, 83, U.S. Representative for New York from 1887 to 1891 and Medal of Honor recipient for heroism in the American Civil War[76]

August 15, 1926 (Sunday)

August 16, 1926 (Monday)

  • A coffin brought from Norway to London thought to contain the remains of Lord Kitchener was opened by the coroner in the presence of police, but it contained no body. The scenario was the work of a hoaxer going by the name of Frank Power.[90]

August 17, 1926 (Tuesday)

August 18, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • At a speech in Pesaro, Italian Premier Benito Mussolini announced "Quota 90", a controversial revaluation of the Italian lira from 19 lira per U.S. dollar to 30 per dollar.[94][95][96]
  • An Air Union airliner with 15 people aboard crashed while making an emergency landing while on a scheduled flight from Paris to London, seriously injuring everyone on board, with two passengers and the pilot, a Mr. Delisle, dying.[97][98] The four-engine Blériot 155 aircraft, designated the Wilbur Wright, departed from Le Bourget Airport with a scheduled destination of Croydon Airport for a three and a half hour flight, and had crossed the English Channel when it experienced engine trouble. While descending to reach a field on a farm outside of Aldington, Kent, the Bleriot 155 clipped the roof of a barn and struck the ground.
  • The International Society for the History of Pharmacy (ISHP) was founded as the Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie by five pharmacists meeting in Innsbruck in Austria, and would continue to promote research, teaching and publication of pharmaceutical history 100 years later as a group of 29 national societies.[99]
  • The New York Polyclinic Hospital issued a bulletin describing the condition of Rudolph Valentino as "favorable" after receiving multiple phone calls while rumors of the film idol's death circulated.[100][101]
  • Born: Orlando Bosch, Cuban anti-Castro militant and exiele who led the terrorist group Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CCRU); in Potrerillo (d.2011)[102]
  • Died: Grace Neill, 80, New Zealand nurse and lobbyist whose lobbying led to New Zealand becoming the first nation to require training and national registration of nurses and midwives[103]

August 19, 1926 (Thursday)

August 20, 1926 (Friday)

August 21, 1926 (Saturday)

August 22, 1926 (Sunday)

August 23, 1926 (Monday)

Valentino in The Sheik
  • Rudolph Valentino, 31, the popular Italian film actor and idol, died at 12:10 in the afternoon at New York's Polyclinic Hospital, from complications associated with a double operation on August 15 for appendicitis and for a perforated ulcer.[131] His last word before falling into a coma had been 'Madre'.[132] The New York Times reported that "his last rational words" had been in a conversation with the Chairman of United Artists, who reported that Valenino said, "Don't worry, Chief. I'll be all right."[131]
  • General Kondylis proclaimed himself the new Prime Minister of Greece and announced that he would form a coalition cabinet. as the Greek Navy destroyer Leon brought General Pangalos and two of the former dictator's aides back to Athens to face trial.[133]
  • Molla Mallory defeated Elizabeth Ryan to win her 8th and final American tennis championship as she won the tiebreaking set in the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, New York. Mallory, who had won consecutive U.S. Open titles (1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1920, 1921, 1922), lost the first set, 4-6, then captured the second, 6-4 to force a third set. Mallory lost the first four games of the final set before tying the set and won, 9 games to 7 to capture the title.[134][135]
  • Born: Clifford Geertz, American cultural anthropologist; in San Francisco (d. 2006)[136]
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August 24, 1926 (Tuesday)

August 25, 1926 (Wednesday)

  • A Category 3 hurricane killed 26 people as it made landfall in the U.S. at Houma, Louisiana.[144][145]
  • The Great White Train", sponsored by the Australia Made Preference League to exhibit and promote items manufactured in the state of New South Wales, began its second statewide tour, after having adjourned its first tour on May 20. The new tour started from Newcastle on the first of 41 stops, ending on November 22 at the Sydney suburb of Hurstville.[146][147]
  • After a second chaotic day of public viewing of Rudolph Valentino's body, it was announced that Campbell's Funeral Parlor was moving the body to a vault until Monday's funeral and that public viewing was closed. Valentino's manager George Ullman explained, "The lack of reverence shown by the crowd, the disorder and attendant rioting since the body was first shown has forced me to this decision."[148]

August 26, 1926 (Thursday)

August 26, 1926: King Ugyen Wangchuck of Bhutan dies and his son Jigme Wangchuck becomes the new monarch.

August 27, 1926 (Friday)

August 28, 1926 (Saturday)

August 29, 1926 (Sunday)

August 30, 1926 (Monday)

  • The sinking of the Soviet steamer Burevestnik killed 65 passengers and crew after the ship was attempting to avoid a collision with an incoming ship, the German ship Greta and rammed a pier.[182] Burevestnik had departed from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on a voyage to Kronstadt and the collision occurred while the ship was in the Sea Canal. Despite reports of 300 dead[183], most of the 404 passengers and 11 crew were rescued.[184]
  • A funeral Mass for Rudolph Valentino was held at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in New York. Thousands watched the funeral cortège as it proceeded down Broadway.[185]
  • The first air "sleeper" flew from Berlin to London. The Hansa-designed biplane had a toilet, wireless phone and berths with beds for four passengers.[186]
  • The last voting rights of Italians were removed as the Fascist government abolished the popular election of municipal officers, who were now to be appointed by the state.[187]
  • Nine passengers on a charabanc open motor carriage were killed by an express train at Naworth, Cumberland after the keeper of the railroad crossing lifted the gate and [[London and North Eastern Railway#Accidents|waved the vehicle into the train's path.[188][189]
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August 31, 1926 (Tuesday)

  • The Soviet and Afghan governments signed a Pact of Neutrality and Non-Aggression to supplement an earlier agreement..[192]
  • A 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Horta in the Azores killed nine people and destroyed over 4,000 buildings.[193]
  • Lionello Perera, whose Perera Bank in New York had survived a 1924 panic, reorganized his company into the Commercial Exchange Bank of New York, providing the means for Amadeo Giannini to expand the operations of his Bank of Italy in California, using Perera's Exchange Bank in order to operate in the state of New York, and creating the first nationwide private bank in the United States, the Bank of America.
  • Major General Ptolemaios Sarigiannis, Chief of Staff of the Greek Army during the dictatorship of General Theodoros Pangalos, was dismissed from his job nine days after Pangalos' overthrow, and replaced by Major General Alexandros Mazarakis-Ainian.[194]
  • In Wanhsien, troops of General Yang Sen seized SS Wanhsien for a second time in a week, and captured another merchant ship, Wantung. The commander of HMS Cockchafer did not have enough men to retake both ships this time, so he radioed for help.[195]
  • Died: Theodora Korte, 53, German author and journalist who also wrote under the name Theo von Nienhaus, died after a long illness.[196]

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