Historical Events
Vanderbilt's Circumnavigation
Sep 24 Cornelius Vanderbilt circumnavigates the world aboard his private yacht North Star
- Sep 24 France annexes New Caledonia
- Sep 24 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
- Sep 29 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German physical chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1909 for work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities), born in Riga, Russian Empire (d. 1932) [1]
- Sep 4 Hermann Wissmann, German African explorer and governor of East-Africa, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1905)
Fred Spofforth (1853-1926)
Sep 9 Australian cricket fast bowler ("The Demon" - 18 Tests, 94 wickets @ 18.41), born in Sydney, Australia
- Sep 13 Sophia Perovskaya, Soviet icon, aristocrat, and socialist revolutionary (Narodnaya Volya), who helped orchestrate the successful assassination of Alexander II of Russia, born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1881)
- Sep 16 Albrecht Kossel, German physician (Nobel 1910), born in Rostock, Germany (d. 1927)
- Sep 17 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie), born in Paderborn, Germany (d. 1924)
- Sep 20 Rama V [Chulalongkorn], King of Thailand (1868-1910), born in Grand Palace, Bangkok, Siam (d. 1910)
- Sep 21 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (liquid helium, Nobel 1913), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1926)
- Sep 23 Marcel Planiol, French law scholar, born in Nantes, France (d. 1931)
- Sep 29 Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
