9,000 coal miners ended their labour dispute and returned to work in Britain, as reports appeared with increasing regularity of miners' representatives making local settlements with pit owners. Over 170,000 miners had gone back to work by this time.[3]
The Mexican rebellion spread to southern Guanajuato as former general Rodolfo Gallegos led an uprising there.[4]
German General Hans von Seeckt was forced to resign as head of the Reichswehr after republicans objected to his permitting Prince Wilhelm to take part in military maneuvers in the uniform of the old Imperial First Foot Guards without first getting permission from the government.[6]
Saturday, October 9, 1926
Benito Mussolini made himself the head of Italy's national militia, giving him personal command of all the armed forces in the country.[7]
A brief notice was published in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia announcing that Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev and Georgy Pyatakov would be placed on trial on October 20 for being overly critical of decisions made at the last Communist Party conference.[9]
The Condé Diamond, a famous rose-coloured diamond that once belonged to the seventeenth century general Louis, Grand Condé, was stolen along with other valuables from the Condé Museum in Chantilly, France. Ladders were used to scale the exterior wall and the gem tower and the glass was cut from the windows.[11]
Wednesday, October 13, 1926
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that daylight saving time was constitutional. Several Massachusetts labor unions had brought forward a case arguing that it was unconstitutional because the confusion that it caused with train scheduling resulted in pecuniary loss and was "otherwise obnoxious".[12][13]
Sheikh Hamad al-Khalifa
Sheikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, the Deputy Ruler of Bahrain at the time, survived an assassination attempt as his Hudson car drove on a bridge over a small creek in the village of Sanabis. The perpetrators hid behind a hedge, and were captured after nearly three years of police investigation headed by Haji Sulman bin Jasim and the Amir of Muharraq, Mohamed bin Jabr. They were identified as Hassawis, from the province of Al-Hasa in what is now Saudi Arabia.
Comments from British Labour Party MP Alfred Salter were published in the Daily Express in which he said that drunkenness was a frequent sight in the House of Commons.[14]
12 police and 35 miners were injured at a mine near Port Talbot, Wales when 500 locked-out miners attacked a colliery that was operating under police protection.[16][17]
The International Congress of Expert Surveyors convened in Geneva to standardize surveying techniques around the world.[18]
Queen Marie welcomed by U.S. Army General Summerall
Queen Marie of Romania arrived in New York on the SS Leviathan on the first day of her visit to the United States and Canada. She was welcomed with a ticker tape parade attended by thousands.[22]
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright was arrested at a cottage in Minnesota where he had been staying with a Montenegrin woman and the daughter they had borne together. They were charged with a state crime of adultery and a federal charge of violating the Mann Act.[23]
More than 650 were killed by a hurricane that hit Cuba.[24]
Born:Bob Rosburg, golfer, in San Francisco, California (d. 2009)
Friday, October 22, 1926
In a dressing room of the Princess Theater in Montreal, the illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini was forcefully punched several times in the stomach by a McGill University student (accounts differ as to whether Houdini explicitly granted his permission or not). Houdini suffered from severe stomach pains as a result, though it is not clear whether this incident was the cause of his death from appendicitis nine days later as legend would have it.[26]
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Myers v. United States, upholding the President's authority to remove executive appointees without the approval of the Senate.[30]
British Labour Party MP Alfred Salter was censured in the House of Commons for refusing to retract remarks of his that appeared in the Daily Express. "I am not prepared to withdraw, modify or apologise for anything I have said on this matter, and I propose to repeat the words I made use of and about which complaint has been made", Salter declared. "I said, and I repeat it here to-day, that I have seen members of all parties in this House, my own party I regret to say included, drunk in this House not on one occasion but on many." A motion was passed calling the statement "a gross libel on the Members of this House and a grave breach of its privileges."[14]
Wednesday, October 27, 1926
In a speech made before the American Association of Advertising Agencies and broadcast on the radio, President Calvin Coolidge said that American prosperity was the result of "our high rate of wages which brings about the greatest distribution of wealth that the world has ever seen and provides the enormous capacity for the consumption of all kinds of commodities which characterizes our country." He also said that while wages were high, "that means that the results of prosperity are going more and more into the homes of the land and less into the enrichment of the few, more and more to the men and women and less and less to the capital which is engaged in our economic life. If this were not so the country would not support 20 million automobiles, purchase so many radios, and install so many telephones."[31][32]
A contract was signed between Prussia and the deposed House of Hohenzollern, settling the estates of Wilhelm II. 20 of the 60 formerly royal castles were deemed to be family property, and 32 million marks and 24,000 Dutch guilders were also paid out.[34]
Nicaraguan President Emiliano Chamorro deposited the Presidency upon Senator Sebastián Uriza to serve as a transitional leader until a new government could be elected.[35][36]
Born:Lois Wyse, advertising executive and author, in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2007)
Sunday, October 31, 1926
Benito Mussolini survived the fourth attempt on his life in twelve months when 15-year-old anarchist Anteo Zamboni shot at him in Bologna, but missed. Police stood by and allowed a vengeful mob of Fascists to lynch Zamboni on the spot.[37]
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^Barnhill, John H. "Jazz Age Evangelism". Jazz Age: People and Perspectives. Ed. Mitchell Newton-Maza and Peter C. Mancall. ABC CLIO, 2009. p. 68. ISBN978-1-59884-033-9.
^ abLangum, David J. (1994). Crossing Over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 93–94. ISBN0-226-46870-4.
^Chen, John Shujie (2004). Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing: Catholic Higher Education in China. New York: RoutledgeFalmer. ISBN0-203-46394-3.
^Röhl, John C.G. "The Unicorn in Winter: Kaiser Wilhelm II in Exile in the Netherlands, 1918–1941". Monarchy in Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II. Ed. Philip Mansell and Torsten Riotte. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. p. 339.
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