Page 6: Historical Events In 1853
Saturday, 23 August 2025
Dec 09 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884) on this day in history.
Dec 13 In the year 1853 joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter
Dec 14 In the year 1853 salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)
Dec 15 In the year 1853 jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
Dec 17 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby) in the year 1853.
Dec 21 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter) in the year 1853.
Dec 22 In the year 1853 maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor
Dec 23 In the year 1853 giacomo Puccini, Italy, composer
Dec 30 In the year 1853 a dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
Dec 30 In the year 1853 andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer
Dec 30 On this day in history gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
Dec 30 The US purchases 30,000 square miles of land from Mexico in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona. The Gadsden Purchase cost the US $10 million on this day in history.