September 1926

==September 18, 1926 (Saturday)==

==September 18, 1926 (Saturday)==

[[File:Looking East on Flagler St. from 13th Ave, 24 hours after the hurricane of Sept. 18th 1926, Miami, edit.jpg|200px|thumb|September 18, 1926: The damage on Flagler Street in downtown Miami]]

[[File:Looking East on Flagler St. from 13th Ave, 24 hours after the hurricane of Sept. 18th 1926, Miami, edit.jpg|200px|thumb|September 18, 1926: The damage on Flagler Street in downtown Miami]]

*A [[1926 Miami hurricane|Category 4 hurricane]]that would kill at least 372 people struck [[Miami]] and much of the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, making landfall near the town of [[Perrine, Florida|Perrine]] shortly before 7:00 in the morning local time, {{convert|15|mi}} south of downtown Miami.{{cite report|type=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Memorandum|author1=Blake, Eric S.|author2=Gibney, Ethan J.|title=The Deadliest, Costliest, and Most Intense United States Tropical Cyclones from 1851 to 2010 (and Other Frequently Requested Hurricane Facts)|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/nws-nhc-6.pdf|publisher=[[National Hurricane Center]]|access-date=January 1, 2015|location=[[Miami]] and [[Asheville, North Carolina]]|date=August 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/#miami26 |title=Great Miami Hurricane 1926 |website=Hurricanes in History |publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |accessdate=January 3, 2015 }} At the time, the population of the [[Miami metropolitan area]] was less than 214,000 people, compared to more than 6.2 million a century later. An estimated $100 million damage was done and many buildings in downtown Miami were destroyed.{{cite web |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/#miami26 |title=Great Miami Hurricane 1926 |website=Hurricanes in History |publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |accessdate=January 3, 2015 }}. A 2018 study concluded that, given the growth of the area, the damage to the same locations would be $235 billion ninety years later.Weinkle, Jessica; et al. (2018). "Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017". Nature Sustainability. 1: 808–813. doi:10.1038/s41893-018-0165-2

*A [[1926 Miami hurricane|Category 4 hurricane]]that would kill at least 372 people struck [[Miami]] and much of the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, making landfall near the town of [[Perrine, Florida|Perrine]] shortly before 7:00 in the morning local time, {{convert|15|mi}} south of downtown Miami.{{cite report|type=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Memorandum|author1=Blake, Eric S.|author2=Gibney, Ethan J.|title=The Deadliest, Costliest, and Most Intense United States Tropical Cyclones from 1851 to 2010 (and Other Frequently Requested Hurricane Facts)|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/nws-nhc-6.pdf|publisher=[[National Hurricane Center]]|access-date=January 1, 2015|location=[[Miami]] and [[Asheville, North Carolina]]|date=August 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/#miami26 |title=Great Miami Hurricane 1926 |website=Hurricanes in History |publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]}} At the time, the population of the [[Miami metropolitan area]] was less than 214,000 people, compared to more than 6.2 million a century later. An estimated $100 million damage was done and many buildings in downtown Miami were destroyed.{{cite web |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/#miami26 |title=Great Miami Hurricane 1926 |website=Hurricanes in History |publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |accessdate=January 3, 2015 }}. A 2018 study concluded that, given the growth of the area, the damage to the same locations would be $235 billion ninety years later.Weinkle, Jessica; et al. (2018). "Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017". Nature Sustainability. 1: 808–813. doi:10.1038/s41893-018-0165-2

*The [[Sherlock Holmes]] [[short story]] "[[The Adventure of the Three Gables]]" by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was published for the first time in ''[[Liberty (general interest magazine)|Liberty]]'' magazine in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/3gab/ |title=The Three Gables |website=Sherlockian.net |access-date=October 3, 2021}}

*The [[Sherlock Holmes]] [[short story]] "[[The Adventure of the Three Gables]]" by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was published for the first time in ''[[Liberty (general interest magazine)|Liberty]]'' magazine in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/3gab/ |title=The Three Gables |website=Sherlockian.net |access-date=October 3, 2021}}

*The Hungarian operetta ''[[Countess Maritza]]'', composed by [[Emmerich Kálmán]] and adapted to the [[English language]] by [[Harry B. Smith]], with [[libretto]] by [[Julius Brammer]] and [[Alfred Grünwald (librettist)|Alfred Grünwald]], made its [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut, premiering at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] for the first of 318 performances {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021114002/http://showsdata.stageagent.com/index.php?info_type=3&id=1607 |date=October 21, 2014 }} on StageAgent website.

*Greece and Poland signed a Treaty of Friendship.

*'''Born:'''

*'''Born:'''

**[[Enrico Maria Salerno]], Italian voice actor and film actor, known for dubbing the voice for Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's [[Dollars Trilogy]] of films ; in [[Milan]] (d. 1994){{Cite web |url=https://www.enricomariasalerno.it/biografia_artistica.htm|title=Enrico Maria Salerno, biografia artistica - a cura del centro studi La ribalta|site=www.enricomariasalerno}}"È morto Salerno una vita in scena" ("Salerno, a life on stage, is dead", by Ugo Volli, ''La Repubblica'' (Rome) , March 1, 1994

**[[Enrico Maria Salerno]], Italian voice actor and film actor, known for dubbing the voice for Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's [[Dollars Trilogy]] of films ; in [[Milan]] (d. 1994){{Cite web |url=https://www.enricomariasalerno.it/biografia_artistica.htm|title=Enrico Maria Salerno, biografia artistica - a cura del centro studi La ribalta}}"È morto Salerno una vita in scena" ("Salerno, a life on stage, is dead", by Ugo Volli, ''La Repubblica'' (Rome) , March 1, 1994

**[[Foekje Dilemma]], Dutch athlete and sprinter known for being banned from competition by the IAAF in 1950 after refusing a [[Sex verification in sports|sex verification test]]; in [[Burum, Friesland|Burum]] (d.2007)Micha Peters and Jurryt van de Vooren, "[https://the-low-countries.com/article/foekje-dillema-and-the-biggest-scandal-in-dutch-sporting-history The Scandalous Suspension of Foekje Dillema]", ''The Low Countries'', July 19, 2021

**[[Foekje Dilemma]], Dutch athlete and sprinter known for being banned from competition by the IAAF in 1950 after refusing a [[Sex verification in sports|sex verification test]]; in [[Burum, Friesland|Burum]] (d.2007)Micha Peters and Jurryt van de Vooren, "[https://the-low-countries.com/article/foekje-dillema-and-the-biggest-scandal-in-dutch-sporting-history The Scandalous Suspension of Foekje Dillema]", ''The Low Countries'', July 19, 2021

**[[Thomas Hetherington]], Scottish barrister and prosecutor, and the first director of the [[Crown Prosecution Service]]; in [[Dumfriesshire]] (d.2007){{cite news|title=Sir Thomas Hetherington|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1547050/Sir-Thomas-Hetherington.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=March 30, 2007}}

**[[Thomas Hetherington]], Scottish barrister and prosecutor, and the first director of the [[Crown Prosecution Service]]; in [[Dumfriesshire]] (d.2007){{cite news|title=Sir Thomas Hetherington|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1547050/Sir-Thomas-Hetherington.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=March 30, 2007}}