Page 2: Historical Events In 1857

Feb 22   Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast and receive radio waves   

Feb 22   Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of the Boy Scout movement is born   

Feb 24   1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt.   

Feb 24   inaugural perforated US postage stamps delivered to the government   

Feb 24   Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.   

Feb 26   Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion).   

Feb 26   Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer, dies at 88   

Feb 28   Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer.   

Mar 03   Alfred Bruneau, composer   

Mar 03   Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China   

Mar 06   Dred Scott Decision Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens   

Mar 06   Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens.   

Mar 06   The US Supreme Court rules that slave Dred Scott cannot sue for his freedom in federal court   

Mar 07   Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs   

Mar 07   Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927).   

Mar 11   Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84.   

Mar 12   A Great Western Railway train breaks an axle while crossing a swing bridge and plunges into the Desjardins Canal near Hamilton. 59 people are killed.   

Mar 12   Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice.   

Mar 17   Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42   

Mar 21   Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64.   

Mar 21   Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107000 die   

Mar 22   Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)   

Mar 23   Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC).   

Mar 23   Elisha Otis' inaugural elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC).   

Mar 23   Fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)   

Mar 25   Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse   

Mar 25   Frederick Laggenheim takes inaugural photo of a solar eclipse.   

Mar 27   Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician.   

Apr 01   In this year, Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man   

Apr 05   Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)   

Apr 10   Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker.   

Apr 12   Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published   

Apr 14   Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)   

Apr 15   N R Pogson discovers asteroid #43 Ariadne   

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Jan 02   Frederick opper: Cartoonist (maud, alphonse & gaston)   

Jan 02   Martha carey thomas: Educator/president (bryn mawr college)   

Jan 06   Hugh mahon: Irish-born australian politician    

Jan 06   William e. russell: 37th governor of massachusetts    

Jan 09   Henry b fuller: American writer (under the skylights)   

Jan 11   Fred[erick j] archer: English jockey (won 5 derbys)   

Jan 17   Eugene augustin lauste: Developer (1st sound-on-film recording)   

Jan 17   Wilhelm kienzl: Austrian composer (evangelimann)   

Jan 20   Edward francis fitzwilliam: Composer,   

Jan 27   Dorothea von benckendorff: Baltic monarch of lieven,   

Feb 07   Félix pbog: Earl of merode, belgian minister of war,   

Feb 09   Dionysios solomos: Greek poet of the greek national anthem (b. 1798)   

Feb 10   David thompson: Canadian explorer (b. 1770)   

Feb 14   Johannes b van bree: Dutch violinist/composer/conductor,   

Feb 15   Mikhail glinka: Composer,   

Feb 16   Auguste-gaspard-louis desnoyers: French engraver,