Today in History for September 1839
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 7 of 7
2nd - Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
5th - The First Opium War begins in China.
6th - Cherokee Nation forms
6th - Great fire in NY
9th - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
11th - 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
20th - 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 6 of 6
2nd - Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
10th - Isaac Kauffman Funk, US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
10th - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
25th - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya)
25th - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
28th - Frances E C Willard, NY, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance Union)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 4 of 4
10th - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
17th - Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies
20th - Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74
21st - Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
