Events in History Sep 8 French army surrenders Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst Sep 28 Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin Birthdays in History Sep 15 Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg (d. 1824) Sep 21 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet, born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire (d. 1837) Deaths in History Sep 11 Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704) 1759 On This Day in History 1761