The 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 disrupted when Danish seamen go on strike over their wages on September 1. The Danish seamen’s decision to go on strike follows similar moves by seamen in China and throughout the British Empire.
· Hermann Göring is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of a Swedish hospital after assaulting a nurse on September 1. Göring, who was in Sweden to overcome a morphine addiction, would later serve as chief advisor to Adolf Hitler and commander of the Luftwaffe during World War II.
· The Second International Conference on the Standardization of Medicine is held in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 3. The conference aims to standardize drug formulas across the globe.
· Comintern leader Grigory Zinoviev, Deputy Premier Finance Commissar Grigory Sokolnikov and Lev Kamenev are among those to sign a joint protest against Soviet Communist Party Secretary Joseph Stalin on September 5. All three men would eventually be executed during Stalin’s Great Purge.
· Striking sailors are barricaded aboard the SS Sophocles before it pulls out of Cape Town, South Africa en route to Australia on September 5. The ship is ultimately forced to return to Cape Town when the sailors refuse to work.
· British police fire on a crowd of 2,000 demonstrators in Shanghai on September 7. The crowd was protesting unequal treaties.
· A deal between the Italian government and explorer Roald Amundsen is announced on September 8. The deal entails Amundsen using the dirigible N-1 in an attempt to fly to the North Pole in 1926.
· A white mob estimated at 5,000 people gathers in Detroit in an effort to intimidate Dr. Ossian Sweet on September 9. Dr. Sweet, who was Black, had purchased a home in an all-white neighborhood, and the mob aimed to force him to vacate the property.
· Xavier University of Louisiana opens on September 13. It is the world’s first Catholic University for African Americans.
· Riley B. King is born near Berclair, Mississippi on September 16. The boy grows up to become a legendary blues musician known the world over as B.B. King.
· Eighteen-year-old Frida Kahlo is nearly killed in an auto accident in Mexico City on September 17. Though Kahlo sustains multiple injuries in the accident, including a fractured spinal column, it’s during her bedridden two-year recovery period that she first begins to paint.
· The third-longest rail tunnel in the United States opens on September 19. The tunnel is two miles long and passes through Mount Judah in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
· The United States submarine USS S-51 sinks off the coast of Rhode Island on September 25. The submarine had collided with a merchant steamer, and 33 of the 36 crew members aboard perished in the collision.
· Greek Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos creates the country’s first spy agency on September 25. The agency, Ypiresía Ethnikís Asfaleías (YES), is conceived to fight the Communist Party of Greece.
· The Yellow River overflows in Shandong Province in China on September 27. Hundreds of people die in the region’s worst flooding since 1887.
· Jewelry valued at three quarters of a million dollars is stolen from Woolworth heiress Jessie Woolworth Donahue while she is a guest at the Plaza Hotel on September 30. The jewelry was stolen while Mrs. Donahue was in a bathtub a few feet away.
