9th September
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace), born in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
1960 Pakistan ends India’s run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games.
1872 Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born
10th September
1872 Birthday of Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer.
1942 British troops land on Madagascar
11th September
1893 First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago, Swami Vivekananda gave an influential speech
1909 Max Wolf rediscovers Halley’s comet
12th September
1914 Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst, born in Amroha, India (d. 1988)
1959 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon
13th September
1925 1st US University for African American, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand woman Member of Parliament
14th September
1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes flight in Stratford, Connecticut
1992 S A Banerjee, cricketer 1948 Test, dies.
15th September
1821 Act of Independence of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua declare their independence from the Spanish Empire
1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal.
1830 First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia
