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Sep 9 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
Sep 9 Tom Hyer beats George McChester in 101 rounds at Caldwell's Landing, NY to become first American heavyweight boxing champion

Kingdom of Sarawak

Sep 24 British adventurer James Brooke obtains lands around the Sarawak river from the Sultan of Brunei

1st White Rajah of Sarawak James Brooke

Sep 30 Samuel Slocum patents the stapler

Famous Birthdays

Sep 3 Tom Emmett, England cricket fast bowler (7 Tests, famous roundarm action), born in Halifax, Yorkshire (d. 1904)
Sep 8 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (Slavonic Dances; New World Symphony; Cello Concerto in b, Op. 104), born in Nelahozeves, Czech Republic (d. 1904)

Charles J. Guiteau (1841-1882)

Sep 8 American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, born in Freeport, Illinois

Charles J. Guiteau

Sep 13 Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist and playwright, born in Middelie, Netherlands (d. 1909)
Sep 26 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, Russian composer, born in Orenburg (d. 1907)

Georges Clémenceau (1841-1929)

Sep 28 Prime Minister of France (Radical-Socialist Party: 1906-09, 1917-20) who defended Dreyfuss, born in Mouilleron-en-Pareds, France

Georges Clémenceau

Famous Deaths

Sep 9 Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, Swiss botanist, established a plant classification system and coined the term taxonomy, dies at 63
Sep 15 Alessandro Rolla, Italian violin and viola player and composer, teacher of Paganini, dies at 84

What Happened in 1841

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