Page 3: Historical Events In September - 23
Sunday, 15 February 2026
1852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st US surgical school. 

1853 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar. 

1854 Cornelis W Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05). 

1856 William Archer, Scotland, writer (Green Goddess) 

1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die. 

1861 Edmond H H Allenby, English fieldmarshal/high director (Egypt) 

1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers. 

1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins. 

1863 Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague). 

1864 Battle of Athens VA. 

1866 Edouard Combe, composer. 

1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) 

1870 John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist 

1871 Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer. 

1871 Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45 

1873 Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title 

1876 Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game. 

1877 Hurricane strikes Curacao and Bonaire results in the deaths of 200 

1877 Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies 

1879 Baldwin steam motors tram inaugural tried in Sydney Australia 

1879 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia 

1880 Jules Ferry forms French govt 

1880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949). 

1884 Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine. 

1888 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist (Die Oden Salomons). 

1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda 

1889 Walter Lippmann, NYC, journalist/political writer (Men of Dystany). 

1889 William W Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies 

1890 Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning. 

1890 Arthur Walter Kramer, composer 

1894 Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist (Edda and Thora). 

1895 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms. 

1896 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83 

1897 inaugural frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming) 

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