September 12: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1824  Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62.   

1829  Anselm Feuerbach, German painter   

1830  William Sprague, governor of Rhode Island (1859-63)   

1836  Grabbe, writer, dies at 34.   

1840  Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck   

1847  Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.   

1848  Switzerland is recorded as becoming a Federal state.   

1852  Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain (L, 1908-16).   

1856  Johann Heinrich Beck, composer   

1857  423 die when the ship named "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC.   

1857  423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC.   

1857  George H Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter/water colors painter.   

1858  Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor.   

1867  2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated   

1871  Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania.   

1871  Karl Collan, composer, dies at 43   

1873  Sul-To-Wan, [Nellie Conley], US actress (Uncle Tom's Cabin)   

1874  1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.   

1876  King Leopold II opens Congo-conference.   

1876  Flor Alpaerts, Flemish composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel, Pallieter).   

1877  Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Jane Eyre)   

1877  Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64.   

1878  Cleopatra Needle installed in London.   

1878  Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83   

1879  Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter   

1879  Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49   

1880  Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)   

1881  Daniel Jones, England phoneticist (English pronouncing dictionary).   

1882  Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza   

1885  Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set   

1887  George Georgescu, composer.   

1888  Maurice Chevalier, French actor is born   

1888  Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG).   

1888  Maurice Chevalier, Paris, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi).   

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