Historical Events
Fort Salisbury Founded
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 First 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
Sequoia National Park
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
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 6 Clara Kimball Young, American actress (Return of Chandu), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1960)
- Sep 6 Manfred Gurlitt, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1973)
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)
- Sep 10 Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist who introduced scientific methods, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1976)
- Sep 11 Marius Ulfrstad, Norwegian composer, born in Ellingsøya< Norway (d. 1968)
- Sep 12 Guido Guerrini, Italian composer, born in Faenza, Italy (d. 1965)
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 15 Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1974)
- Sep 16 Ernst Deutsch [Dorian], Jewish-Austrian actor (Moon is Down, 3rd Man), born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1969)
- 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 17 Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian-British ballerina, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1976)
- Sep 18 Vladimír Ambros, Czech composer, born in Prostějov, Czech Republic (d. 1956)
- 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)
- Sep 23 Arthur Walter Kramer, American composer, born in New York City (d. 1969)
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)
- Sep 24 Mike González, Cuban baseball player, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1977)
Famous Deaths
- 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 5 Ludwig Deppe, German composer, dies at 61
- 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
Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)
Sep 18 Irish actor and playwright (London Assurance; The Poor of New York), dies at 69 [or 67, birth year disputed]
- Sep 22 Johanna D. Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot), dies at 79
