Today in History for September 1880

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 7 of 7

6th - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval
6th - W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval
7th - Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
9th - President Hayes visits SF
10th - Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
23rd - Jules Ferry forms French government
30th - Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 19 of 19

4th - Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo)
6th - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess)
7th - Attilio Brugnoli, composer
7th - Kurt von Wolfurt, composer
8th - Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic chairman (1st Chamber)
9th - Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony)
12th - Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)
14th - Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)
14th - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
14th - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
16th - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman)
20th - Ildebrando Pizzetti, composer
20th - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
21st - Henry Louis Mencken, US essayist/critic (American Mercury)
22nd - Asser B Kleerekoper, journalist/2nd-Member of parliament (SDAP)
22nd - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
23rd - John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
28th - Ralph Edward Flanders, Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
30th - Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer (Viola d'amour)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 3 of 3

1st - Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75
15th - William Hauser, composer, dies at 67
22nd - G F Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia), dies

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