Page 3: Historical Events In August - 02

1864  2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens.   

1865  In this year, Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"   

1865  Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau and Romanticism)   

1867  Ernest C Dowson, British poet   

1868  Constantine I, king of Greece.   

1869  Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+.   

1870  Tower Subway, the world's inaugural underground tube railway, opens in London   

1872  Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59   

1873  The inaugural trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones   

1873  1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones.   

1873  Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53   

1875  1st roller skating rink opens (London).   

1876  Wild Bill Hickok draws the Dead Man's Hand - a pair of aces and a pair of eights, when he was shot   

1876  Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's.   

1877  SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes   

1878  Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales).   

1881  Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift).   

1881  Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35.   

1882  Johannes Tralow, writer.   

1884  Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent.   

1886  John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)   

1887  Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire.   

1888  Oscar Rasbach, composer   

1890  Pauline Hall, composer.   

1891  Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians).   

1892  Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator.   

1892  Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros).   

1894  Death duties 1st introduced in Britain   

1895  Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)   

1899  Charles Bennett, screenwriter   

1900  Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause).   

1903  Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey.   

1903  Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies.   

1905  Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer.   

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1455  Johan cicero: Elect of brandenburg (1486-99)   

1533  Theodor zwinger: Swiss scholar   

1627  Samuel dircksz van hoogstraten: Dutch painter   

1632  Kaspar von stieler: German poet (teutsche wolredner)   

1672  Johann jakob scheuchzer: Swiss scholar   

1674  Philip ii: Duke of orléans, regent of france   

1696  Mahmud i: Sultan of ottoman (turkey) (1730-54)/fought austria & russia   

1703  Lorenzo ricci: Italian jesuit leader   

0257  Stefanus i: Bishop of rome (254-57)/heretic fighter,   

0640  Severinus: Italian pope (640),   

0686  John v: 1st greeks-syrian pope (685-86),   

0924  Ã†lfweard of wessex: Ælfweard of wessex   

1002  Abu amir mohammed ibn abd allah ibn mohammed ibn abi amir:   

1075  Death of John viii xiphilinus: Theologian/patriarch of constantinople,   

1100  William ii: [rufus], king of england, shot in new forest at 44   

1222  Count raymond vi of toulouse: Count raymond vi of toulouse (b. 1156)