Page 4: Historical Events In August - 10

1861  Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43   

1862  Battle of Nueces River TX   

1865  Alexander K Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)   

1866  Transatlantic cable laid.   

1866  Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria.   

1867  Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867   

1869  O B Brown patents moving picture projector   

1869  Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds).   

1874  Herbert Hoover, Former (31st) President of the US is born   

1874  Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)   

1875  Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66   

1876  1st phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada.   

1877  inaugural use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements   

1877  Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians   

1877  Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance   

1880  Clarence Cameron White, composer.   

1881  Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder   

1882  Max Kowalski, composer   

1883  inaugural train reaches Calgary   

1883  Carlos Lavin, composer   

1884  In New York City, a 5.5 earthquake caused large cracks in walls at Amityville and Jamaica (intensity VII). The shock was felt strongly at New York City.   

1885  Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt).   

1886  Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement.   

1886  Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85   

1887  Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois.   

1887  Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois).   

1888  NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record.   

1888  Johanna E F G (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actress (Saint Joan)   

1889  Dan Rylands patents screw cap.   

1889  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer   

1891  Henry O'Neill, Orange NJ, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble)   

1893  Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act.   

1893  Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act   

1893  Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard).   

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1267  King james ii of aragon: King james ii of aragon (d. 1327)   

1296  John the blind: King of bohemia/count of luxembourg   

1360  Francesco zabarella: Italian jurist   

1397  Albert ii of germany: Holy roman emperor   

1489  Jacob sturm von sturmeck: German statesman and reformer   

1520  Madeleine de valois: Wife of james v of scotland   

1556  Philipp nicolai: Germany, theologist/poet/composer   

1560  Hieronymus praetorius: Composer   

0258  Saint lawrence: Martyr   

0794  Fastrada: 3rd wife of french king charles the great,   

0955  Death of Conrad the red: Duke of lotharingen,   

1002  Death of Al-mansur: Arabic general strategist/regent of cordoba,   

1250  Erik iv plovpenning: King of denmark, murdered   

1535  Death of Ippolito de' medici: Ruler of florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)   

1589  Death of Maarten schenck nideggen: Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49   

1628  Death of Hans jonsson: Swedish fleet commander, drowned