Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   On this day in history sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route   

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 on this day in history.   

Sep 30   In the year 1879 ernst Isler, composer   

Oct 01   On this day in history 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   In the year 1879 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   Halfdan Cleve, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 07   In the year 1879 germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant   

Oct 07   Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr on this day in history.   

Oct 08   On this day in history 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   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   F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

Oct 15   Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn) on this day in history.   

Oct 18   On this day in history grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer   

Oct 19   Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign on this day in history.   

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

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

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   In the year 1879 leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]   

Oct 26   In the year 1879 the birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader   

Oct 28   In the year 1879 conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer   

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

Oct 30   On this day in history eily Malyon, London, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion)   

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) in the year 1879.   

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 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 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1879 birth of grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)   

Jan 05   In the year 1879 birth of hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)   

Jan 09   Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 16   On this day in history 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   Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42 on this day in history.   

Jan 29   Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

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

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