October 1926 calendar

Events

• 02 Oct 1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a NFL football game.
• 03 Oct 1926 1st Congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
• 04 Oct 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
• 06 Oct 1926 Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a world series game, New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Cardinals 10-5 (World Series #23).
• 07 Oct 1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
• 09 Oct 1926 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
• 12 Oct 1926 British miners agree to end their strike.
• 14 Oct 1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
• 15 Oct 1926 Austria government of Seipel, forms
• 16 Oct 1926 Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
• 18 Oct 1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament
• 19 Oct 1926 John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
• 20 Oct 1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
• 22 Oct 1926 Student Wallace Whitehead repeatedly punches magician Harry Houdini in the abdomen, after asking if he had strong muscles, and receiving permission to punch him.
• 24 Oct 1926 Magician Harry Houdini performs in Detroit, Michigan, but collapses during intermissions from stomach pain.
• 25 Oct 1926 Harry Houdini is operated on in Detroit, Michigan, and is found to have a gangrenous ruptured appendix. Doctors realize he will die soon.
• 26 Oct 1926 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 Belga)
• 31 Oct 1926 Erich Weiss, better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Famous Birthday

• Klaus Kinski

  Kinski was found dead of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home on 23 November 1991.

• Michel Foucault

  French philosopher and educator, a teacher at Clermant-Ferrand and in Paris and appointed to a chair in the History of Systems of Thought at...

• Jimmy Savile

  TV Show Host.

• Chuck Berry

  American singer, musician, songwriter and recording artist.

• Danièle Delorme

  French film actress and producer, the daughter of noted painter and resistance worker André Girard.

• Nhat Hanh
• Louise Hay

  American motivational author, and the founder of Hay House.

• Claude Perdriel

  French business leader, the owner-manager of the Perdriel Group that publishes Le Nouvel Observateur, Sciences et Avenir, Challenges, Rue89...

• César Pelli
• Jean Peters

  American actress.

• Bernard Noël
• Marcello Abbado

  Italian musician and composer, the brother of conductor Claudio Abbado.

• Julie Adams

  American actress.

• Galina Vishnevskaya

  Leningrad, Russia -- Soprano (Madama Butterfly).

• André Paquinet
• Jean Alexander

  British actress noted for her performances on stage though TV was her strongest medium; recipient of the Royal Television Award for Best...

• Karl G Henize

  Astronaut (STS 51-F), dies of heart failure at 66.

• Jacques Jouanneau
• Alex Groza

  American athlete, a basketball star.

• Evan Hunter

  American novelist (Born 1926).

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Famous Deaths

• Charles Van de Banks

  Flemish writer / Poet (Red Horse).

• Jules Van de Hill

  Belgian lawyer / politician.

• Frederick JR Zech

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Hans E Kinck

  Norwegian philological / writer (Driftekaren), dies at 61.

• Emil Kraepelin

  German psychiatrist and academic (d. 1926).

• Eugene Debs

  American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (Born 1855).

• Harry Houdini

  Hungarian-American magician who was known as the world's greatest escape artist, performing sensational and dangerous feats for audiences...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Whispering Jack Smith - When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
2. Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra - Cross Your Heart
3. Johnny Marvin - Breezin' Along with the Breeze
4. Revelers - The Blue Room
5. Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - Looking at the World Thro' Rose-Colored Glasses