Page 4: Historical Events In 1858

Jun 03   Julius Reubke, composer, dies at 24.   

Jun 08   Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor   

Jun 12   Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74   

Jun 15   Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63   

Jun 16   Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois.   

Jun 16   Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand".   

Jun 16   Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50)   

Jun 16   King Gustav V of Sweden is born.   

Jun 17   Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)   

Jun 18   Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist   

Jun 19   Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor   

Jun 20   Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)   

Jun 21   Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe   

Jun 23   William Ernst Johnson, Cambridge England, mathematician.   

Jun 25   Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright.   

Jun 29   George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)   

Jun 29   Great fire in London harbor   

Jun 29   Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia.   

Jun 30   Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31]   

Jul 01   1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent).   

Jul 02   Partial emancipation of Russian serfs   

Jul 05   Maria J "Marie" Bakker, Dutch actress.   

Jul 06   Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78.   

Jul 06   Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine.   

Jul 09   Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man).   

Jul 10   Karl Flodin, composer.   

Jul 14   Emmeline Pankhurst, England, are discovered (Women's Social and Political Union).   

Jul 16   Eugene Ysaye, composer   

Jul 20   Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18).   

Jul 23   Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament   

Jul 24   Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920).   

Jul 26   Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament.   

Jul 26   Tommy Garrett, cricketer (original Australian Test player).   

Jul 28   1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by   

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Jan 05   Gustaf af geijerstam: Swedish author (boken om lillebror)   

Jan 07   Eliezer ben-yehuda: Key figure in the revival of hebrew as a spoken language    

Jan 10   Heinrich zille: German illustrator and photographer    

Jan 11   Harry gordon selfridge: American retailer   

Jan 13   Oskar minkowski: Biologist    

Jan 15   Giovanni segantini: Italy, painter   

Jan 17   Tomas carrasquilla: Colombian author (frutos de mi tierra)   

Jan 19   Eugene brieux: French playwright (blanchette, lesson avaries)   

Jan 03   Rachel: [elisabeth rachel-félix], fr singer/actress (muse),   

Jan 05   Johann jwafk radetzky von radetz: Austr earl/field marshal,   

Jan 07   Willem broes: Vicar/theologist (textenrol),   

Jan 08   Friedrich karl kuhmstedt: Composer,   

Jan 09   Anson jones: 5th and last president of texas (suicide) (b. 1798)   

Jan 27   Gerrit van der linde jz: Dutch "principal", poet,   

Jan 30   Coenraad jacob temminck: Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)   

Feb 16   Georg f creuzer: German philological/historian,