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In 1887, Elizabeth Cochran, under the pen name of Nellie Bly, managed to get herself sent to the New York Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island to do an undercover story of conditions there

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Earlier Event: September 24
In 1906, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument
Later Event: September 26
1n 1763, English poet John Byrom dies - satirized disagreements between George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Battista Bononcini in poem as "Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee"