Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

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

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

Sep 29   Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer on this day in history.   

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

Sep 30   In the year 1879 ernst Isler, composer   

Oct 01   Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause on this day in history.   

Oct 02   In the year 1879 start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

Oct 02   Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG) on this day in history.   

Oct 02   On this day in history wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)   

Oct 05   Halfdan Cleve, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 07   On this day in history 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) in the year 1879.   

Oct 14   On this day in history f Kornberger, writer, dies at 58   

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

Oct 18   On this day in history grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer   

Oct 19   On this day in history afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign   

Oct 21   On this day in history marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer   

Oct 21   On this day in history thomas Edison invents the electric light.   

Oct 21   In the year 1879 thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb   

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

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

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

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   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   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   Emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)   

Jan 02   Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 03   Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29) was born on this day in history.   

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   Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827) died on this day in history.   

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

Jan 23   Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42 in the year 1879.   

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   Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 on this day in history.