What happend on 8th September

07.09
09.09
1888

In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.

1888

In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.

1863

American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass

1831

William IV was crowned King of Great Britain.

1810

The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men established fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.

1796

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano

1755

French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George

1727

A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambs, UK kills 78 people, many of whom are children

1664

The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was surrendered to the British who renamed it New York in 1669.

1636

A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.