Historical Events In 1884

Feb 17   In the year 1884 arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)   

Feb 18   Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show) on this day in history.   

Feb 18   General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum on this day in history.   

Feb 18   Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" in the year 1884.   

Feb 19   In the year 1884 tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people   

Feb 19   Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people on this day in history.   

Feb 21   On this day in history john Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71   

Feb 22   Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer on this day in history.   

Feb 23   Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade) in the year 1884.   

Feb 23   Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23 on this day in history.   

Feb 26   British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II on this day in history.   

Feb 26   Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer on this day in history.   

Feb 29   In the year 1884 alfred Sendrey, composer   

Mar 02   Leon Jongen, composer on this day in history.   

Mar 08   On this day in history 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite   

Mar 10   Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda) in the year 1884.   

Mar 11   On this day in history jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)   

Mar 12   Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women on this day in history.   

Mar 12   On this day in history mississippi establishes first US state college for women   

Mar 13   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit) in the year 1884.   

Mar 13   On this day in history siege of Khartoum Sudan begins   

Mar 13   On this day in history the birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist   

Mar 13   In the year 1884 uS adopts Standard Time   

Mar 14   Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist in the year 1884.   

Mar 15   On this day in history rudolf Piskacek, composer   

Mar 16   Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear) on this day in history.   

Mar 17   On this day in history john Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif   

Mar 17   John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, Otay CA in the year 1884.   

Mar 19   On this day in history alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54   

Mar 21   George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure) on this day in history.   

Mar 23   Glauco Velasquez, composer on this day in history.   

Mar 24   In the year 1884 gino Marinuzzi, composer   

Mar 26   Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905) on this day in history.   

Mar 27   1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY in the year 1884.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of eli S Jones, US, evangelist (Christ of Indian road)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer   

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of james Philip Dunn, composer   

Jan 12   Louis Horst, composer was born in the year 1884.   

Jan 12   In the year 1884 birth of texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)   

Jan 13   In the year 1884 birth of sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas   

Jan 06   Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61 in the year 1884.   

Jan 17   In the year 1884 death of hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)   

Jan 21   On this day in history auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75   

Jan 24   Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

Feb 08   Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Feb 21   On this day in history john Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71   

Feb 23   Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23 in the year 1884.   

Mar 01   Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820) died on this day in history.