Historical Events
- Sep 9 California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the Union
- Sep 9 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
Swedish Nightingale
Sep 11 Opera singer Jenny Lind - "The Swedish Nightingale", gives 1st US concert, at Castle Garden in New York City, promoted by P. T. Barnum
Compromise of 1850
Sep 18 US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850, requires slaves be returned to their owners
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Jim O'Rourke, American Baseball HOF left fielder (NL HR leader 1880 Boston Red Caps; NY Giants) and manager (Buffalo Bisons 1881-84, Washington Sens 1893), born in East Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 1919)
- Sep 2 A. G. Spalding, American Baseball HOF pitcher, manager and executive (NL wins leader 1871–76; President, co-owner Chicago White Stockings; co-founder of Spalding sporting goods company), born in Byron, Illinois (d. 1915)
- Sep 2 Eugene Field "Poet of Childhood", American poet, writer and journalist (Little Boy Blue), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1895)
- Sep 2 Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
- Sep 4 Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal (WW I-Caporetto), born in Verbania, Kingdom of Sardinia (d. 1928)
- Sep 6 Louis Apol, Dutch painter, etcher and literary, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1936)
- Sep 9 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist and commonly referred as "father of modern Hindi", born in Vārānasi, India (d. 1885)
- Sep 9 Jane Ellen Harrison, British anthropologist and linguist, born in Cottingham, Yorkshire (d. 1928)
- Sep 9 Leopoldo Miguez, Brazilian composer, born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (d. 1902)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 23 José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader and national hero who is regarded as the father of Uruguayan independence, dies at 86
