Page 5: Historical Events In 1880

Jul 16   Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada on this day in history.   

Jul 18   In the year 1880 otto Vrieslander, composer   

Jul 19   SF Public Library starts lending books on this day in history.   

Jul 20   Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer in the year 1880.   

Jul 21   Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY on this day in history.   

Jul 21   Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman in the year 1880.   

Jul 22   Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72 in the year 1880.   

Jul 23   In the year 1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich   

Jul 23   The first commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich on this day in history.   

Jul 24   In the year 1880 ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)   

Jul 27   A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil in the year 1880.   

Jul 27   On this day in history battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out   

Jul 27   Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana) in the year 1880.   

Jul 30   On this day in history robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)   

Aug 05   On this day in history gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden)   

Aug 07   On this day in history ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)   

Aug 10   Clarence Cameron White, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 11   Frederick Jerome Work, composer in the year 1880.   

Aug 12   Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher (Won 37 in 1908) in the year 1880.   

Aug 14   On this day in history australia's first soccer club, The Wanderers, plays its first match, against Kings School, Parramatta, NSW.   

Aug 14   On this day in history construction of Cologne Cathedral completed   

Aug 14   Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248) on this day in history.   

Aug 17   In the year 1880 leo Ascher, composer   

Aug 17   Ole Bull, composer, dies at 70 in the year 1880.   

Aug 21   On this day in history johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader (OD)   

Aug 24   Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat in the year 1880.   

Aug 25   In the year 1880 robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)   

Aug 26   Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola) in the year 1880.   

Aug 29   In the year 1880 marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117   

Aug 31   Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948) on this day in history.   

Sep 01   Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75 in the year 1880.   

Sep 04   Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo) on this day in history.   

Sep 06   Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval on this day in history.   

Sep 06   On this day in history jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess)   

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Jan 01   In the year 1880 birth of edie Martin, London England, actress (Titfield Thunderbolt)   

Jan 01   In the year 1880 birth of shalom Asch, Poland, yiddish writer (Motke Ganev)   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer   

Jan 05   Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer was born in the year 1880.   

Jan 06   In the year 1880 birth of tom Mix, Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)   

Jan 10   Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause) was born in the year 1880.   

Jan 04   On this day in history anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies   

Jan 08   [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Jan 27   On this day in history death of edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)   

Feb 29   In the year 1880 death of sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812, also on 29 February)   

Mar 02   On this day in history death of sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)   

Mar 15   On this day in history jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51   

Mar 23   On this day in history gustav Adolf Mankell, composer, dies at 67   

Mar 25   Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.