Today in History for September 1871

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 3 of 3

7th - Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed
17th - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
20th - Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 13 of 13

1st - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
10th - Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
12th - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania
13th - Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)
19th - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)
21st - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier
23rd - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer
24th - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
26th - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
27th - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
28th - Pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44)
30th - John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)
30th - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 8 of 8

3rd - Vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71
7th - Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
7th - Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies
8th - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57
12th - Karl Collan, Finnish composer, dies at 43
23rd - Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45
25th - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies
26th - Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78