Historical Events In 1879

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

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

Sep 29   In the year 1879 joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer  

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

Sep 30   Ernst Isler, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 01   In the year 1879 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   In the year 1879 start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)  

Oct 02   Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order) in the year 1879.  

Oct 05   In the year 1879 halfdan Cleve, composer  

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

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 in the year 1879.  

Oct 12   On this day in history 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   In the year 1879 jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)  

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer on this day in history.  

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

Oct 21   Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer in the year 1879.  

Oct 21   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer  

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) in the year 1879.  

Oct 31   On this day in history 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   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) 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   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 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces) was born in the year 1879.  

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

Jan 03   On this day in history 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   In the year 1879 don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86  

Jan 13   In the year 1879 wF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58  

Jan 16   In the year 1879 death of octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)  

Jan 22   Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle in the year 1879.  

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

Feb 21   Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 on this day in history.