September 1890 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Sep 12 Cecil Rhodes' colonists found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe)

Sep 13 Cecil Rhodes' colonists hoist the Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury (modern Zimbabwe)
Sep 19 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
Sep 22 Fist known ascent of Mt. Olympus, Washington, by an expedition led by Joseph P. O'Neil [1]
Sep 23 Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
Sep 24 The President of the Latter-day Saints Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned

Event of Interest

Sep 25 Sequoia National Park established by US President Benjamin Harrison - California's first national park and the country's second

Sep 26 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece

Birthdays in History

Colonel Sanders (1890-1980)

Sep 9 American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, born in Henryville, Indiana

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973)

Sep 10 Italian fashion designer, born in Rome, Italy

Sep 10 Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet (Mirror Man, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

Sep 15 English crime writer (Murder on the Orient Express, Mousetrap), born in Torquay, Devon

Sep 15 Claude McKaye, Jamaican-American author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo), born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica (d. 1948)
Sep 17 Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator famous for his WWII sign-on "There's good news tonight", born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1972)
Sep 20 Rachel Bluwstein, Hebrew poet, born in Saratov, Imperial Russia (d. 1931)
Sep 22 Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician and philosopher, born in Sonvilier, Switzerland (d. 1975)

Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957)

Sep 23 German field marshal who commanded the 6th Army at Stalingrad and was the highest-ranking German officer to surrender, born in Guxhagen, Germany

Sep 24 A. P. Herbert, English journalist and writer (Punch, Helen), born in Ashtead, Surrey, England (d. 1971)

Deaths in History

Sep 3 Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63
Sep 3 Willem Linnig The Younger, Flemish painter and graphic artist, dies at 48
Sep 16 Louis Le Prince, French artist and original inventor of the motion picture camera sometimes called "the father of cinematography," vanishes under suspicious circumstances at 49
Sep 22 Johanna D. Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot), dies at 79