Page 8: 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 in the year 1879.   

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

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

Oct 02   In the year 1879 wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)   

Oct 05   On this day in history halfdan Cleve, composer   

Oct 07   Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant in the year 1879.   

Oct 07   In the year 1879 joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr   

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 in the year 1879.   

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

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

Oct 15   On this day in history jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)   

Oct 18   In the year 1879 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   In the year 1879 thomas Edison invents the electric light.   

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

Oct 25   In the year 1879 jean Rogister, composer   

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

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) in the year 1879.   

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

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

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

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of william Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon)   

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history 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 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   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   Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 21   Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 in the year 1879.