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100 YEARS AGO: HISTORICAL

EVENTS FROM SEPTEMBER 1925

T he month of
September has
been home to many
historical events
over the years.
Here’s a look at
some that helped to shape the world
in September 1925.

Global commerce continues to be September 8. The deal entails merchant steamer, and 33 of the 36
disrupted when Danish seamen go on Amundsen using the dirigible N-1 in crew members aboard perished in
strike over their wages on September an attempt to fly to the North Pole in the collision.
1. The Danish seamen’s decision to 1926.
go on strike follows similar moves by
seamen in China and throughout the A white mob estimated at 5,000 Greek Prime Minister Theodoros
British Empire. Pangalos creates the country’s first
people gathers in Detroit in an effort spy agency on September 25. The
to intimidate Dr. Ossian Sweet on agency, Ypiresía Ethnikís Asfaleías
Hermann Göring is hospitalized in
the psychiatric ward of a Swedish September 9. Dr. Sweet, who was (YES), is conceived to fight the
hospital after assaulting a nurse on Black, had purchased a home in an Communist Party of Greece.
September 1. Göring, who was in all-white neighborhood, and the mob
Sweden to overcome a morphine aimed to force him to vacate the The Yellow River overflows in
addiction, would later serve as property. Shandong Province in China on
chief advisor to Adolf Hitler and September 27. Hundreds of people
commander of the Luftwaffe during Xavier University of Louisiana opens die in the region’s worst flooding
World War II. on September 13. It is the world’s since 1887.
first Catholic University for African
The Second International Conference Americans. Eighteen-year-old Frida Kahlo is
on the Standardization of Medicine nearly killed in an auto accident
is held in Geneva, Switzerland, on Riley B. King is born near Berclair, in Mexico City on September 17.
September 3. The conference aims to Mississippi on September 16. The Though Kahlo sustains multiple
standardize drug formulas across the boy grows up to become a legendary injuries in the accident, including a
globe. blues musician known the world over
as B.B. King. fractured spinal column, it’s during
Striking sailors are barricaded aboard her bedridden two-year recovery
the SS Sophocles before it pulls out The third-longest rail tunnel in the period that she first begins to paint.
of Cape Town, South Africa en route United States opens on September
to Australia on September 5. The 19. The tunnel is two miles long and Jewelry valued at three quarters
ship is ultimately forced to return to passes through Mount Judah in the of a million dollars is stolen from
Cape Town when the sailors refuse to Sierra Nevada Mountains. Woolworth heiress Jessie Woolworth
work. Donahue while she is a guest at
The United States submarine USS the Plaza Hotel on September 30.
A deal between the Italian S-51 sinks off the coast of Rhode The jewelry was stolen while Mrs.
government and explorer Roald Island on September 25. The Donahue was in a bathtub a few feet
Amundsen is announced on submarine had collided with a away.