September 1858 in History

Events in History

Sep 1 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month

Historic Event

Sep 8 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

Sep 10 John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Brooklyn vs NY)
Sep 10 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora
Sep 13 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
Sep 16 1st overland mail for California
Sep 28 Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed

Birthdays in History

Sep 9 Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
Sep 12 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter and sculptor, born in Grembergen, Dendermonde, Belgium (d. 1921)
Sep 15 Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer and a hermit, born in Strasbourg, French Empire (d. 1916)

Bonar Law

Sep 16 Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), born in Kingston, Colony of New Brunswick (now Canada)

Sep 24 Eugene Foss, American politician (45th Governor of Massachusetts), born in St. Albans, Vermont (d. 1939)
Sep 27 Þorsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Pyrnar), born in Iceland (d. 1914)