Historical Events
- Sep 1 Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
National Duties
Sep 2 Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in an address to the Minnesota State Fair, entitled "National Duties"
- Sep 5 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
Assassination of William McKinley
Sep 6 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York
- Sep 7 The Peace of Peking puts an end to the Boxer Rebellion in China
- Sep 12 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
- Sep 14 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo
- Sep 16 Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County
Art History
Sep 16 French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands
Battle of Blood River Port
Sep 17 Battle of Blood River Port: Boer commandos led by Louis Botha defeat a British Mounted Infantry force commanded by Major Hubert Gough
- Sep 19 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley
- Sep 26 Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in Natal
- Sep 26 Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana)
- Sep 28 Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers at breakfast in Balangiga, Philippines, 44 killed; the abandoned town is burned in retalliation
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 Adolph Rupp, American Basketball HOF coach (NCAA Div I Tournament 1948, 49, 51, 58; Uni of Kentucky; 5 × National Coach of the Year), born in Halstead, Kansas (d. 1977)
- Sep 2 Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
- Sep 2 Phil Napoleon [Filippo Napoli] American early jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Original Memphis Five; Napoleon and HIs Emperors), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1990)
- Sep 3 Eduard van Beinum, Dutch musician and conductor, born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1959)
- Sep 4 Paul Osborn, American playwright (Mornings at 7), born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 1988)
William Lyons (1901-1985)
Sep 4 British industrialist and automobile manufacturer (Jaguar cars), born in Blackpool, Lancashire
- Sep 5 Florence Eldridge [McKechnie], American Broadway stage and screen actress (Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Swan; Inherit The Wind), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1988)
- Sep 5 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Polish-Canadian composer (Encounterpoint), educator, and ethnomusicologist, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1981)
- Sep 6 John Erik Jonsson, American businessman and Mayor of Dallas, born in New York City (d. 1995)
- Sep 8 Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister (1958-66) who was assassinated in 1966, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1966)
- Sep 12 Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1975)
- Sep 12 Ernst Pepping, German composer, born in Duisburg, Germany (d. 1981)
- Sep 15 Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
- Sep 16 Andrée Bunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32; World C'ship gold pairs 1926, 28, 30, 32), born in Paris, France (d. 1993)
Francis Chichester (1901-1972)
Sep 17 English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), born in Barnstaple, Devon, England
- Sep 18 Harold Clurman, American theatrical producer and director (Deadline at Dawn), born in New York City (d. 1980)
- Sep 19 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy), born in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (d. 1991)
- Sep 20 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, born in Dannemarie, France (d. 1944)
- Sep 21 Learie Constantine, West Indian cricket all-rounder, lawyer and politician (UK's first black peer), born in Diego Martin, Trinidad (d. 1971) [1]
- Sep 22 Charles Huggins, American-Canadian physician and cancer researcher (1966 Nobel Prize), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1997)
- Sep 22 Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Russian woman who was the 2nd wife of Joseph Stalin, born in Baku, Russian Empire (d. 1932)
- Sep 23 Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, born in Antwerp (d. 1987)
- Sep 23 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1984), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986) [1]
- Sep 25 Bud Houser, American field athlete (Olympic gold discus & shot put 1924, discus 1928), born in Winigan, Missouri (d. 1994)
- Sep 25 Robert Bresson, French film director (A Man Escaped, Balthazar, at Random), born in Puy-de-Dôme, France (d. 1999)
- Sep 26 Donald Cook, American actor (Too Young To Go Steady), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1961)
- Sep 26 George Raft, American actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot), born in New York City (d. 1980)
- Sep 26 Ted Weems [Wemyes], American jazz trombonist, violin player and big band bandleader (Somebody Stole My Girl; Heartache), born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania (d. 1963)
Ed Sullivan (1901-1974)
Sep 28 American newspaper columnist, and television host (The Ed Sullivan Show), born in New York City
- Sep 28 Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-American mathematician, and educator (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire (d. 1982)
- Sep 28 Lily Bouwmeester, Dutch actress and comedienne (Pygmalion), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Sep 28 William S. Paley, American broadcast pioneer (President and CEO of CBS, 1928-90), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1990)
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
Sep 29 Italian-American nuclear physicist, gone fission, fermium (Nobel Prize 1938), born in Rome, Italy
Famous Deaths
- Sep 5 Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
- Sep 8 Johannes von Miquel, German politician (Vice President Kingdom of Prussia 1897-1901), dies at 73
- Sep 9 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and printmaker (At the Moulin Rouge), dies from the effects of alcoholism and syphilis at 36
- Sep 9 Willem van Goltstein van Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies dies at 70
William McKinley (1843-1901)
Sep 14 25th US President (Republican: 1897-1901), dies in Buffalo at 58, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist Leon Czolgosz
- Sep 25 Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
