Historical Events
- Sep 11 Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
Discovery of Gold in California
Sep 12 423 die when steamship SS Central America, the 'Ship of Gold', sinks in a hurricane off Cape Romain, South Carolina, carrying tonnes of gold coins and bricks from the California Gold Rush (rediscovered 1988)
- Sep 15 Timothy Alder of NY patents a typesetting machine
- Sep 16 Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
- Sep 23 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die
- Sep 25 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
- Sep 30 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Island, south of Hawaii
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 Thomas Groube, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test; Victoria CA), born in New Plymouth, New Zealand (d. 1927)
- Sep 6 Zelia Nuttall, American Mexican archeologist and historian (Codex Nuttall), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1933) [1]
- Sep 8 Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of German Empire, born in Haynau, Germany (d. 1936)
- Sep 8 Ida Henrietta Hyde, American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode and the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1945)
- Sep 10 James Edward Keeler, American astronomer (rings of Saturn), born in La Salle, Illinois (d. 1900)
- Sep 12 George H. Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1923)
- Sep 13 Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (Drzymała's wagon), born in Province of Posen, Poland (d. 1937)
Milton S. Hershey (1857-1945)
Sep 13 American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania
William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
Sep 15 27th US President (Republican: 1909-13) and Chief Justice, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Sep 17 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian pioneer in rocket and space research, born in Izhevskoye, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1935)
- Sep 29 Conrad Theodor van Deventer, Dutch author, lawyer and politician (Ethical Policy Movement), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1915)
- Sep 30 Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge), born in Matziken, East Prussia (d. 1928)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 3 Heinrich Lichtenstein, German zoologist, botanist and explorer who collected plants in Southern Africa, dies at 77
- Sep 3 John McLoughlin, Canadian Hudson's Bay Co pioneer and fur trader in Oregon Country, dies at 72
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Sep 5 French philosopher and father of sociology (A General View of Positivism), dies of stomach cancer at 59
- Sep 18 Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer (Pygmalion; Kalmora, or The Paternal Right of the Americans), conductor (Warsaw Opera, 1810-40), and pedagogue, dies at 72
