Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm. September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed. September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world. September 25 The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery. William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the Canadian federal election. October October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland. October 12 – British miners agree to end their strike. October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear. October 16 – An ammunition explosion on troopship Kuang Yuang explodes near Kiukiang, China, killing 1,200. October 19 – The 1926 Imperial Conference opens in London. October 20 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba. October 23 Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office. The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed. October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis, that has developed after his appendix ruptured. November November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds. November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. November 15 The NBC Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA). The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent. November 24 The village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm. Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving "The Mother" to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, India. November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy. November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies are arrested. November 27 –