What Happened In September 1883 - Historical Events 1883 September

Historical Events for September, 1883

8th » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.

1st » Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
2nd » Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. 1963)
5th » Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar (d. 1967)
7th » Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1950)
10th » Jock Delves Broughton, English accused murderer (d. 1942)
11th » Emil Rausch, German swimmer (d. 1954)
13th » LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (d. 1956)
14th » Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1908)
15th » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
16th » T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic (d. 1917)
17th » William Carlos Williams, American pediatrician and poet (d. 1963)
18th » Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, English composer, author, and painter (d. 1950)
19th » Mabel Vernon, American educator and activist (d. 1975)
22nd » Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)
22nd » Frank George Woollard, English engineer (d. 1957)
24th » Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman, founded Mars, Incorporated (d. 1934)
24th » Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper (d. 1951)
30th » Bernhard Rust, German politician (d. 1945)