Events in History
- Sep 3 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows" premieres in London
Event of Interest
Sep 9 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
- Sep 9 Russia takes part of Poland
- Sep 12 Canada appoints a Civil Service Commission, initiating a more equitable system for selecting civil servants
- Sep 16 Carriage-maker, William C. Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan
- Sep 17 Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight
- Sep 18 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
- Sep 22 Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
- Sep 23 University of Alberta opens
Model T
Sep 27 Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan
Theater Premiere
Sep 30 Maurice Maeterlinck's play "L'Oiseau bleu" (The Blue Bird) premieres at the Moscow Art Theatre
Birthdays in History
- Sep 1 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist
- Sep 3 Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1988)
- Sep 4 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children), born in Roxie, Mississippi (d. 1960)
- Sep 6 Anthony Wagner, Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London (d. 1995)
- Sep 6 Louis Essen, British physicist (time measurement, speed of light determination), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1997)
- Sep 7 Michael DeBakey, Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon and artificial heart pioneer, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana (d. 2008)
- Sep 8 Geoffrey Hodges, British bomb disposal expert (d. 1996)
- Sep 9 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate)
- Sep 10 Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (Great Plains prehistoric cultures), born in Newton, Kansas (d. 1996)
- Sep 11 Everhardus Jacobus van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, born in Willemstad, Curaçao (d. 1960)
- Sep 15 Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain)
- Sep 16 Beecher Moore, British sailor, born in Rochester, New York (d. 1996)
- Sep 18 Victor Ambartsumian, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50), born in Tiflis, Russian Empire (d. 1996)
- Sep 19 Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (Egyptian), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1979)
- Sep 19 Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist and founder of Isshinryu Karate, born in Gushikawa, Okinawa, Japan (d. 1975)
- Sep 20 Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1982)
- Sep 27 Shiv Verma, Indian revolutionary soldier (d. 1997)
- Sep 29 Norman Anderson, English lawyer, missionary and Arabist, born in Aldeburgh, England (d. 1994)
- Sep 30 Edzard H. Schaper, German Swiss sailor and UP correspondent and antifascist, born in Ostrowo
Weddings in History
Robert Falcon Scott
Sep 2 Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England
Winston Churchill
Sep 12 Politician Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
Deaths in History
- Sep 3 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, Dutch jurist and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1888-93), dies at 61
- Sep 17 Thomas Selfridge, early American aviator, 1st person to die in an air crash at 26
- Sep 23 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet, dies at 74
- Sep 29 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (Epitaph of a small winner), dies at 69
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