Events in History
Event of Interest
Sep 18 Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address
- Sep 18 Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, gives the first chiropractic adjustment
- Sep 21 America's first automotive producer, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, is founded by Charles and J. Frank Duryea
- Sep 23 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
- Sep 26 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
- Sep 30 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
Birthdays in History
John Diefenbaker (1895-1979)
Sep 18 13th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1957-63), born in Neustadt, Ontario
- Sep 18 Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian who dies of old age at 113, born in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan (d. 2009)
- Sep 21 Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet, born in Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1925)
- Sep 22 Babette Deutsch, American poet (Animal vegetable mineral), born in New York City (d. 1982)
- Sep 23 Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
- Sep 24 André F. Cournand, French physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), born in Paris (d. 1988)
- Sep 26 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, born in Detmold, Germany (d. 1952)
- Sep 28 Charles Petrie, British historian known for his study of royalism and Jacobitism (If: A Jacobite Fantasy), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1977)
- Sep 29 Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
- Sep 29 Louise Granville, Australian entertainer, born in Sydney, New South Wales
- Sep 29 Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
Deaths in History
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Sep 28 French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization), dies at 72
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