What Happened in Sep 1888

Mohandes Gandhi Travels to London to Train as a Barrister

On 4 September 1888, less than a month shy of his 19th birthday, Gandhi traveled to London, England, to study law at University College London and... Read more

Annie Chapman Murdered in Spitalfields

Annie Chapman's Last Hours Shortly after midnight on the morning of her death, Chapman, like Mary Ann Nichols, found herself without money for... Read more

T. S. Eliot Is Born

Eliot was born into the Eliot family, a bourgeois family, originally from New England, who had moved to St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Henry Ware... Read more

Elizabeth Stride Murdered in Whitechapel

Elizabeth Stride was killed on the night of the "Double Event" that saw the murder of Catherine Eddowes less than an hour later. Stride's body was... Read more

Catherine Eddowes Murdered in the City of London

At 8.30 pm on Saturday the 29 September Eddowes was found lying in the road drunk on Aldgate High Street by PC Louis Robinson and taken into... Read more