Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

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

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

Sep 29   On this day in history 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   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) on this day in history.   

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   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   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   In the year 1879 british troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan   

Oct 13   Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie) on this day in history.   

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

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

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

Oct 21   In the year 1879 thomas Edison invents the electric light.   

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

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

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

Oct 26   The birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader in the year 1879.   

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

Oct 29   Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932) on this day in history.   

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

Oct 31   Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies in the year 1879.   

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

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

Nov 02   On this day in history jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)   

Nov 03   Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist in the year 1879.   

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   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   In the year 1879 birth of william Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon)   

Jan 02   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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 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 in the year 1879.   

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

Jan 23   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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