What Happened in September 1888

Historical Events

Sep 4 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera and registers the brand name "Kodak"

Sep 6 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).

Sep 6 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnon's Imperial British East Africa Company political & commercial rights

Sep 7 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York

Sep 9 Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the Pacific is annexed by Chile

Sep 11 Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
Sep 19 One of first known modern beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium
Sep 25 Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
Sep 30 "Jack the Ripper" murders 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes, in Whitechapel, London

Sep 1 Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
Sep 4 Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor and choreographer (Triadisches Ballett), born in Stuttgart, German Empire (d. 1943)
Sep 5 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and leader, Second President of India (1962-67), born in Thiruttani, British India (d. 1975)

Sep 6 American businessman, diplomat and father of JFK, RFK and Teddy, born in Boston, Massachusetts

Sep 6 Red Faber, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1917; AL ERA leader 1921, 22; Chicago White Sox 1914-33), born in Cascade, Iowa (d. 1976)
Sep 8 Louis Zimmer, Flemish astronomer and clockmaker (Jubelklok/Wonder Clock), born in Lier, Belgium (d. 1970)
Sep 12 Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer ("Thank Heaven For Little Girls"), born in Paris (d. 1972)
Sep 15 Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver, born in Bonferraro, Italy (d. 1925)
Sep 16 Almira Sessions, American actress (Oklahoma Annie), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1974)

Sep 16 English engineer and motoring pioneer who founded Bentley Motors Limited, born in London

Sep 17 Michiyo Tsujimura, Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist (components of green tea), born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan (d. 1969)
Sep 18 Grey Owl [Archibald Belaney], Canadian pioneering conservationist (who pretended to be part Native American), born in Hastings, England (d. 1938) [1]
Sep 19 James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist, born in Sea Bright, New Jersey (d. 1971)
Sep 19 Porter Hall, American actor (Half-Breed, Double Indemnity), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1953)
Sep 22 Sophia "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a Dream, Vorstenschool), (d. 1975)
Sep 23 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist (Die Oden Salomons), born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1948)
Sep 26 J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist, born in Live Oak County, Texas (d. 1964)

Sep 26 American poet (The Waste Land), dramatist and critic (Nobel Prize 1948), born in St Louis Missouri,

Sep 28 Herman [H. C.] McNeile [pen name Sapper), English soldier and writer (Bulldog Drummond), born in Bodmin, England (d. 1937)

Sep 27 Balloon wedding of Margaret Buckley and Edward T. Davis in front of 40,000 people at the Rhode Island State Fair [1]

Sep 8 Annie Chapman, English victim of the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, murdered at about 48
Sep 9 Jan van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
Sep 11 Domingo F. Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77
Sep 30 Catherine Eddowes, English woman murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
Sep 30 Elizabeth Stride "Long Liz", English woman murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45