May 18 – Evangelist
Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a beach at
Venice, California; on June 23 she is found stumbling in the desert of
Agua Prieta, Mexico just south of
Douglas, Arizona, claiming she has been kidnapped, drugged, tortured and held for ransom, but has escaped.[2][3]
September 18 –
Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates
Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion today).
September 20 – Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn,
Al Capone's
Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.
October 10 – The
St. Louis Cardinals defeat the
New York Yankees, 4 games to 3, to win their first World Series Title. This World Series ended when Babe Ruth attempted to steal second base and is the only World Series to end this way.
October 14 – Poland presents President Calvin Coolidge with a
111 volume gift called a "Polish Declaration of Admiration and Friendship for the United States of America" comprising some 15,000 bound sheets with the signatures of an estimated 5,500,000 Polish citizens on the occasion of America's 150th anniversary of independence.
November 12 –
Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911 (born
1836)
November 15 –
Lafayette Young, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1910 to 1911 (born
1848)
December 10 –
Peter Remondino, Italian-born physician, author, first president of the San Diego Board of Health, co-founder of San Diego's first private hospital (born
1846)
December 31 –
Henry A. du Pont, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1906 to 1917 (born
1838)
^Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 274.
ISBN978-0313344237.
^Hawtree, Christopher (June 25, 2013).
"Richard Matheson obituary". Guardian.co.uk. London. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
^Holst, Don (2005). American men of Olympic track and field : interviews with athletes and coaches. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland. p. 100.
ISBN9780786419302.
May 18 – Evangelist
Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a beach at
Venice, California; on June 23 she is found stumbling in the desert of
Agua Prieta, Mexico just south of
Douglas, Arizona, claiming she has been kidnapped, drugged, tortured and held for ransom, but has escaped.[2][3]
September 18 –
Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates
Miami, Florida, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion today).
September 20 – Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn,
Al Capone's
Chicago headquarters. Only one of Capone's men is wounded.
October 10 – The
St. Louis Cardinals defeat the
New York Yankees, 4 games to 3, to win their first World Series Title. This World Series ended when Babe Ruth attempted to steal second base and is the only World Series to end this way.
October 14 – Poland presents President Calvin Coolidge with a
111 volume gift called a "Polish Declaration of Admiration and Friendship for the United States of America" comprising some 15,000 bound sheets with the signatures of an estimated 5,500,000 Polish citizens on the occasion of America's 150th anniversary of independence.
November 12 –
Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911 (born
1836)
November 15 –
Lafayette Young, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1910 to 1911 (born
1848)
December 10 –
Peter Remondino, Italian-born physician, author, first president of the San Diego Board of Health, co-founder of San Diego's first private hospital (born
1846)
December 31 –
Henry A. du Pont, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1906 to 1917 (born
1838)
^Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 274.
ISBN978-0313344237.
^Hawtree, Christopher (June 25, 2013).
"Richard Matheson obituary". Guardian.co.uk. London. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
^Holst, Don (2005). American men of Olympic track and field : interviews with athletes and coaches. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland. p. 100.
ISBN9780786419302.