Today in History for September 1888

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 14 of 14

1st - Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
3rd - East Africa Company political & commercial rights
3rd - Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British
4th - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
6th - Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
7th - Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator
8th - In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.
11th - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
12th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG)
18th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG)
19th - World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)
25th - Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
25th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG)
30th - "Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 15 of 15

1st - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
4th - Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor
5th - Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher
6th - Joseph P Kennedy, Boston Mass, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy
8th - Louis Zimmer, Flemish clock maker (Jubelklok/Wonder Clock)
12th - Maurice Chevalier, Paris, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi)
15th - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
16th - Almira Sessions, Washington DC, actress (Oklahoma Annie)
19th - Porter Hall, Cincinnati OH, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity)
19th - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
22nd - Sophia J W "Sophie" Hermse, actress (Vorstenschool)
23rd - Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist (Die Oden Salomons)
26th - T S Eliot, St Louis Missouri, poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948), (d. 1965)
26th - J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
28th - Herman McNeile, Cornwall England, soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

9th - John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
11th - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77
30th - Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
30th - Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45

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