Historical Events
- Sep 8 US under General Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey
- Sep 10 1st theater opens in Hawaii
Historic Event
Sep 11 1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Historic Event
Sep 16 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
Jesse James
Sep 5 Jesse James, American outlaw and son of a clergyman, born in Kearney, Missouri (d. 1882)
- Sep 13 Charles Dupee Blake, American composer, born in Walpole, Massachusetts (d. 1903)
- Sep 14 William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor, born in London, England (d. 1908)
- Sep 16 Albert Ross Parsons, American composer, born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1933)
- Sep 20 Sergey Nechayev, Russian Nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary), born in Ivanovo, Russia (d. 1882)
- Sep 30 Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing], Dutch feminist
