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In Spain, 100 were killed in flooding from storms that followed a fifty-five-day drought.
The standoff continued in Wanhsien as the gunboat Widgeon arrived carrying the British Consul from Chongqing in response to HMS Cockchafer's call of the previous day.
Thursday, September 2, 1926
Valentino's funeral procession in New York
The funeral train of Rudolph Valentino left New York on a cross-country journey to his final resting place in California.
The Italian government and the Imam of Yemen signed a Treaty of Friendship.
Some 20,000 Chinese troops under General Yang Sen assembled with artillery along the shoreline of Wanhsien.
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Rudolph Valentino's funeral train pulled into LaSalle Street Station in Chicago. A heavy police presence was on hand to keep order, but some grieving fans got past the police cordon and ran out onto the tracks. Only a few invitees were allowed into the train.
The Canberra Times newspaper was first published in Australia.
The council body unanimously accepted a resolution to admit Germany to the League with a permanent seat. Spain turned down a semi-permanent council seat at the League of Nations; it wanted a permanent one.
A camouflaged and armored merchant ship SS Kiawo sailed into Wanhsien bearing a naval crew and attempted to board the Chinese-occupied merchant ship Wanhsien. It came under fire from the Chinese troops on shore, and the gunboats Cockchafer and Widgeon returned fire. Once the hostages from the Wahnsien and Wantung had escaped, the gunboats also shelled the merchant ships heavily so they would no longer be seaworthy in Chinese hands, and then the British ships retired. There were approximately 22 casualties on the British side, 250 dead on the Chinese side and 100 civilians killed in the crossfire. The altercation led to a major diplomatic row as the Chinese claimed that they had suffered thousands of casualties and that the British had shelled Wahnsien itself in violation of international law (the city was ablaze at four points).
In Spain, the officers of the Artillery Corps staged a collective protest by shutting themselves within their barracks. They were angry about the system that promoted officers by election rather than seniority. King Alfonso XIII declared martial law throughout the country and the officers were swiftly arrested.
A timber barn being used as a temporary cinema in Dromcolliher, Ireland caught fire when a candle ignited a reel of film stock. 48 died in the tragedy.
Monday, September 6, 1926
Rudolph Valentino's funeral train arrived in Los Angeles. More than 3,000 onlookers filled the streets to watch the procession of the hearse to the Guardian Angel mortuary chapel.
About 1,000 Greek rebels, many still loyal to the deposed Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos, attacked government troops in Athens. Many civilians were caught in the crossfire as government troops counter-attacked and the revolt was put down.
Italian anarchist Gino Lucetti threw a bomb at Benito Mussolini as his limousine passed by the Porta Pia gate in Rome. Four were wounded, but Mussolini was unhurt and Lucetti was quickly captured.
The new Rudyard Kipling collection Debits and Credits was published. One poem, "The Vineyard", drew controversy as it was interpreted as a criticism of the United States' late entry into World War I. One stanza read: "At the eleventh hour he came/But his wages were the same/As ours who all day long had trod/The winepress of the wrath of God."
District Attorney of Los Angeles County Asa Keyes ordered the arrest of Aimee Semple McPherson, her mother, and three others on charges including "conspiracy to commit acts injurious to public morals."
The Italian and Romanian governments signed a Treaty of Friendship in which Italy offered Romania a large loan in return for oil and other concessions.
In the French border village of Thoiry, Foreign Ministers Aristide Briand of France and Gustav Stresemann of Germany held a conference to discuss various points of contention between the two countries. Tentative agreements were reached on the rest of the Rhineland and the Saar being returned to Germany in exchange for reparations payments, but no treaties resulted as the agreements were widely protested by the public, particularly in France.
A Category 4 hurricane struck Miami in the early morning hours. An estimated $100 million damage was done and many buildings in downtown Miami were destroyed.
The North Side Gang attempted to assassinate Al Capone, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois, with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight as Capone was eating there. Capone escaped harm.
Tuesday, September 21, 1926
The Miami hurricane began to dissipate as it entered Louisiana. All told the hurricane killed at least 373 people, wounded over 6,000, and did the equivalent of about $90 billion damage in modern dollars.
Thomas Edison declared the radio a commercial failure, saying, "There isn't 10 percent of the interest in radio that there was last year. It's a highly complicated machine in the hands of people who know nothing about it. No dealers have made any money out of it. It isn't a commercial machine, because it is complicated ... The phonograph is coming back into its own, because the people want good music."
The United States negotiated an armistice in the Nicaraguan Civil War; President Emiliano Chamorro Vargas agreed to resign so the Nicaraguan Congress could select a new president.
The Pabst Mine Disaster occurred at the Pabst Iron Mine in Ironwood, Michigan. 3 miners were killed and 43 were trapped when an elevator fell down the shaft, which was then sealed by a rock fall.
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Thursday, September 30, 1926
British Foreign Affairs Secretary Austen Chamberlain met with Benito Mussolini at the Tuscan port of Livorno. It was reported that the discussions were cordial and topics included the possibility of restoring the monarchy in Greece, Franco-German economic relations, and the administration of Tangier.
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"Planes Bomb Greek Army Rebels; 50 Die". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 10, 1926. p. 1.
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"Gen. Ludendorff Weds Doctor His Wife Accused". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 15, 1926. p. 4.
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"Gibe at U.S. Part in War Seen in Poem by Kipling". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 16, 1926. p. 15.
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