Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   In the year 1879 sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route   

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

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   On this day in history ernst Isler, composer   

Oct 01   On this day in history 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   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   Halfdan Cleve, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 07   Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant on this day in history.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 12   On this day in history 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) in the year 1879.   

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 19   In the year 1879 afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign   

Oct 21   Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1879 jean Rogister, composer   

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

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

Oct 28   Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 29   In the year 1879 franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)   

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

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) on this day in history.   

Nov 02   In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km on this day in history.   

Nov 02   Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent) in the year 1879.   

Nov 03   On this day in history vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist   

Nov 04   Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus in the year 1879.   

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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   On this day in history birth of ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud)   

Jan 01   William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon) was born in the year 1879.   

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

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   Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle on this day in history.   

Jan 23   In the year 1879 adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42   

Jan 29   On this day in history antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80   

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

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