Historical Events In 1884

Feb 17   Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940) on this day in history.  

Feb 18   Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show) in the year 1884.  

Feb 18   On this day in history general Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum  

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

Feb 19   Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people on this day in history.  

Feb 19   In the year 1884 tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people  

Feb 21   John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1884.  

Feb 22   Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer in the year 1884.  

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

Feb 23   In the year 1884 tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23  

Feb 26   On this day in history british & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II  

Feb 26   In the year 1884 christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer  

Feb 29   In the year 1884 alfred Sendrey, composer  

Mar 02   On this day in history leon Jongen, composer  

Mar 08   In the year 1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite  

Mar 10   In the year 1884 stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)  

Mar 11   Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet) on this day in history.  

Mar 12   Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women in the year 1884.  

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

Mar 13   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit) on this day in history.  

Mar 13   Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins in the year 1884.  

Mar 13   The birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist in the year 1884.  

Mar 13   On this day in history uS adopts Standard Time  

Mar 14   Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist on this day in history.  

Mar 15   In the year 1884 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   In the year 1884 john Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif  

Mar 17   John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, Otay CA on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1884.  

Mar 24   Gino Marinuzzi, composer on this day in history.  

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

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

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Jan 02   Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame) was born in the year 1884.  

Jan 03   Eli S Jones, US, evangelist (Christ of Indian road) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer was born on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history birth of texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)  

Jan 13   Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan) was born on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history death of hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)  

Jan 21   Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Jan 24   Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75 in the year 1884.  

Feb 08   Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76 in the year 1884.  

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 on this day in history.  

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