Historical Events
- Sep 6 National Black Convention meets in Cleveland
- Sep 12 Switzerland becomes a Federal state
- Sep 14 Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace” in downtown New York City
- Sep 16 Slavery abolished in all French territories
- Sep 18 Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
- Sep 19 Hyperion, moon of Saturn - the first non-round moon - discovered by William Cranch Bond, his son George Phillips Bond and William Lassell
- Sep 20 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
- Sep 29 Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
- Sep 4 Jennie Lee, American actress (The Birth of a Nation), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1925)
- Sep 4 Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (carbon filament lightbulbs), born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 1928)
- Sep 5 Manuel Giro, Spanish composer, born in Lérida, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1916)
- Sep 24 Pieter Lodewijk Tak, Dutch journalist (The Chronicle; Het Volk), and politician, born in Middelburg, Netherlands (d. 1907)
- Sep 29 Caroline Yale, American educator who revolutionized the teaching of hearing-impaired students, born in Charlotte, Vermont (d. 1943)
