Page 6: Historical Events In 1869

Sep 21   Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer.   

Sep 22   Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold," premieres in Munich.   

Sep 22   The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)   

Sep 24   Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold.   

Sep 24   The Black Friday Wall Street panic occurs when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.   

Sep 28   Libri, mathematician, dies   

Sep 30   Ernest Jones, cricket pace bowler (marvellous Aust at turn of century).   

Oct 01   1st postcards are issued (Vienna)   

Oct 01   The inaugural postcards are issued (Vienna).   

Oct 02   Gandhi, Indian leader of 'passive' resistance is born   

Oct 02   Groucho Marx, US comedian of the 'Marx' brothers fame is born.   

Oct 02   Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist and spiritual leader   

Oct 05   A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.   

Oct 06   John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres   

Oct 08   Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64   

Oct 08   J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built and operated in US)   

Oct 09   Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer   

Oct 11   Gordon Frederic Norton, composer   

Oct 13   Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Fren writer (Tableau Historique), dies.   

Oct 14   Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles).   

Oct 16   Hotel in Boston is recorded as becoming 1st to have indoor plumbing   

Oct 16   Hotel in Boston is recorded as becoming the inaugural to have indoor plumbing   

Oct 18   Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo).   

Oct 21   1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore.   

Oct 21   inaugural shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore   

Oct 22   Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64.   

Oct 23   Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer   

Oct 23   Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72.   

Oct 25   August Otto Halm, composer   

Oct 26   1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)   

Oct 26   The inaugural American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY).   

Oct 30   Lawrence Grant, Bournemouth England, actor (Bulldog Drummond).   

Nov 01   Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra   

Nov 03   Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms.   

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Jan 03   Paul charles rene landormy: Composer   

Jan 04   Percy pitt: Composer   

Jan 04   Tommy corcoran: American baseball player    

Jan 13   Emanuele f: Duke of aosta, italian general (ww i)/fascist   

Jan 15   StanisÅ‚aw wyspiaÅ„ski: Polish dramatist    

Jan 18   Willem de vreese: Flemish linguist/biblographer   

Jan 19   Alfred r zimmerman: Mayor (rotterdam 1906-22)/dir (league of nations)   

Jan 22   Grigori rasputin: Russian monk    

Jan 01   Martin w. bates: American politician (b. 1786)   

Jan 17   Alexander sergeyevich dargomyzhsky: Composer,    

Jan 26   Duncan gordon boyes: English recipient of the victoria cross (b. 1846)   

Jan 28   Prudent-louis aubery du boulley: Composer,   

Jan 30   William carleton: Irish novelist (b. 1794)   

Feb 01   Frederik w conrad: Hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer,   

Feb 04   Johan m dautzenberg: Flemish author/novelist (future),    

Feb 15   Mirza ghalib: Indian poet (b. 1796)