Events in History
- Sep 9 Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"
- Sep 11 Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland
- Sep 13 America Lewis Howard Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
Event of Interest
Sep 20 Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president
Birthdays in History
- Sep 5 Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democrat, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1938)
- Sep 12 Daniel Jones, English phoneticist (English pronouncing dictionary), born in London (d. 1967)
- Sep 15 Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French automobile designer and manufacturer (Automobiles E. Bugatti), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1947)
- Sep 16 Clive Bell, English art critic, born in East Shefford, Berkshire (d. 1964)
- Sep 17 Alfred Carpenter, English Royal Navy soldier, born in Barnes, Surrey (d. 1955)
- Sep 25 Lu Xun, Chinese writer of modern Chinese literature, born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Qing dynasty China (d. 1936)
- Sep 26 Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan, born in Ashland, Alabama (d. 1966)
- Sep 29 Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American Economist (The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality), born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973)
Deaths in History
- Sep 8 Frederick, Prince of the Netherlands and general and large landowner (created Muskau Park), dies at 84
Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881)
Sep 13 American soldier, industrialist and politician (Governor of Rhode Island, 1866-69) who popularized sideburns, dies of a heart attack at 57
James Garfield (1831-1881)
Sep 19 20th US President (Republican: 1881), dies of a gunshot wound at 49
- Sep 22 Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
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