Events in History
- Sep 1 1st female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company in Boston
- Sep 3 British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die
- Sep 12 Cleopatra Needle installed in London
- Sep 25 British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
- Sep 30 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
- Sep 30 Great Flood hits New Zealand's South Island
Birthdays in History
- Sep 1 Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
- Sep 2 Werner von Blomberg, German politician and general (Commander-in-Chief German Armed Forces 1935-38), born in Stargard, Prussia (d. 1946)
- Sep 9 Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
- Sep 9 Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
- Sep 16 Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes), born in Ühlingen-Birkendorf, Germany (d. 1961)
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
Sep 20 American author (The Jungle), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Weddings in History
Friedrich Engels
Sep 11 German philosopher Friedrich Engels (57) marries Lizzie Burns (51), hours before her death in London
Deaths in History
- Sep 12 Friedrich August von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83
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