Page 4: Historical Events In September - 18
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, is recorded as becoming inaugural chiropractor 

1895 Booker T Washington delivera "Atlanta Compromise" address 

1895 John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63). 

1896 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies. 

1897 Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC 

1897 John Mens, writer (People Without Money). 

1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan 

1901 Harold Clurman, producer/director (Deadline at Dawn) 

1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chic Cubs, 10-0 

1903 Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67. 

1904 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies 

1905 Greta Garbo, Swedish born film actress is born 

1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam 

1905 Agnes De Mille, NYC, choreographer (Oklahoma) 

1905 George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess and Curdie), dies at 80. 

1906 A typhoon with tsunami results in the deaths of an estimated 10000 people in Hong Kong 

1906 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [OS=Sept 5] 

1907 Edwin M McMillan, US, physicist/discoverer plutonium (Nobel prize). 

1908 Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1. 

1908 Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50). 

1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det. 

1910 25000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 

1910 Henri A Cornelis, gov-general Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi 

1911 Britain's inaugural twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 

1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 

1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49 

1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I. 

1914 Jack Cardiff, British film director 

1915 Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1. 

1915 Hetta Empson, artist. 

1916 John J Rhodes, (Rep-R-Az). 

1917 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director 

1918 Australians attack on the Hindenburg Line. 

1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 

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