Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

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

Sep 28   On this day in history 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   Ernst Isler, composer in the year 1879.   

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

Oct 02   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG) in the year 1879.   

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

Oct 02   Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order) on this day in history.   

Oct 05   On this day in history halfdan Cleve, composer   

Oct 07   On this day in history germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant   

Oct 07   Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr in the year 1879.   

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 in the year 1879.   

Oct 13   Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie) in the year 1879.   

Oct 14   F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

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

Oct 21   Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison invents the electric light in the year 1879.   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb in the year 1879.   

Oct 25   Jean Rogister, composer in the year 1879.   

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

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

Oct 28   Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 29   Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932) in the year 1879.   

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

Oct 31   Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies on this day in history.   

Nov 01   Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41) on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India)   

Jan 01   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of william Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon)   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)   

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 in the year 1879.   

Jan 09   In the year 1879 don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86   

Jan 13   WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 22   Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle in the year 1879.   

Jan 23   On this day in history adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42   

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

Feb 11   In the year 1879 honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies   

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