24th » "Black Friday (1869) Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the United States Department of the Treasury Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk (financier) James Fisk plot to control the market.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1869
3rd » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
6th » Walford Davies, English organist and composer (d. 1941)
6th » Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic (d. 1945)
7th » Ben Viljoen, South African general (d. 1917)
14th » Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)
17th » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian political scientist, historian, and educator, Nobel Peace Prize named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938)
22nd » Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (d. 1953)
23rd » Typhoid Mary, Irish-American carrier of Typhoid fever (d. 1938)
26th » Komitas, Armenian-French priest and composer (d. 1935)