Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route in the year 1879.   

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

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

Sep 29   On this day in history 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   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   Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order) on this day in history.   

Oct 05   On this day in history halfdan Cleve, composer   

Oct 07   On this day in history germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant   

Oct 07   On this day in history 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   On this day in history british troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan   

Oct 13   On this day in history peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)   

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

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

Oct 25   In the year 1879 jean Rogister, composer   

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

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

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

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

Nov 04   Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus in the year 1879.   

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Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India)   

Jan 01   Emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   In the year 1879 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   In the year 1879 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   In the year 1879 birth of grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)   

Jan 05   Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) was born in the year 1879.   

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   On this day in history death of octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)   

Jan 22   In the year 1879 anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle   

Jan 23   On this day in history adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42   

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

Feb 11   Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies in the year 1879.   

Feb 21   In the year 1879 peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69