Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route on this day in history.   

Sep 28   In the year 1879 sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route   

Sep 29   In the year 1879 joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer   

Sep 29   NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players in the year 1879.   

Sep 30   On this day in history ernst Isler, composer   

Oct 01   In the year 1879 cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause   

Oct 02   In the year 1879 start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

Oct 02   On this day in history start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

Oct 02   On this day in history wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)   

Oct 05   Halfdan Cleve, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 07   Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant in the year 1879.   

Oct 07   On this day in history joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr   

Oct 08   In the year 1879 war of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.   

Oct 12   On this day in history british troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan   

Oct 13   On this day in history peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)   

Oct 14   In the year 1879 f Kornberger, writer, dies at 58   

Oct 15   Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn) in the year 1879.   

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 19   In the year 1879 afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign   

Oct 21   In the year 1879 marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison invents the electric light on this day in history.   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb on this day in history.   

Oct 25   Jean Rogister, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 26   Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS] in the year 1879.   

Oct 26   The birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader on this day in history.   

Oct 28   On this day in history conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer   

Oct 29   On this day in history franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)   

Oct 30   Eily Malyon, London, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion) on this day in history.   

Oct 31   In the year 1879 big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies   

Nov 01   Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41) in the year 1879.   

Nov 02   In the year 1879 in a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km   

Nov 02   Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent) on this day in history.   

Nov 03   On this day in history vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist   

Nov 04   Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   Edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory)   

Jan 01   Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1879 birth of johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)   

Jan 02   In the year 1879 birth of pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)   

Jan 03   Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 05   Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 09   Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86 in the year 1879.   

Jan 13   On this day in history wF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58   

Jan 16   Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827) died on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle on this day in history.   

Jan 23   Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42 in the year 1879.   

Jan 29   Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80 in the year 1879.   

Feb 11   On this day in history honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies   

Feb 21   Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 on this day in history.