Today in History for September 1857
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 8 of 8
11th - Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
12th - 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
15th - Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
16th - Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
16th - Typesetting machine patent
23rd - Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die
25th - Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
30th - US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 11 of 11
2nd - Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
6th - Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
8th - Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
10th - James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)
12th - George H Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter/water colors painter
13th - Milton S. Hershey, Derry Township, Pennsylvania, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945)
13th - Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
15th - William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
17th - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
29th - Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
30th - Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 4 of 4
3rd - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77
3rd - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
5th - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
18th - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72
