Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route in the year 1879.   

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

Sep 29   Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer on this day in history.   

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

Sep 30   In the year 1879 ernst Isler, composer   

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

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

Oct 02   In the year 1879 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 on this day in history.   

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

Oct 08   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 in the year 1879.   

Oct 12   British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer   

Oct 19   Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign in the year 1879.   

Oct 21   On this day in history marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer   

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

Oct 21   On this day in history thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb   

Oct 25   Jean Rogister, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 26   On this day in history leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]   

Oct 26   On this day in history the birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader   

Oct 28   Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 29   In the year 1879 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   On this day in history pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)   

Nov 02   On this day in history in a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km   

Nov 02   In the year 1879 jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)   

Nov 03   Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist on this day in history.   

Nov 04   In the year 1879 elkins patents refrigerating apparatus   

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Jan 01   Edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud)   

Jan 01   William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 02   Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)   

Jan 05   Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 13   WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58 in the year 1879.   

Jan 16   In the year 1879 death of octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)   

Jan 22   On this day in history anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle   

Jan 23   In the year 1879 adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42   

Jan 29   In the year 1879 antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80   

Feb 11   Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies in the year 1879.   

Feb 21   On this day in history peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69