Page 7: Historical Events In 1869

Nov 03   Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms in the year 1869.   

Nov 06   1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) in the year 1869.   

Nov 06   Diamonds discovered at Kimberley, South Africa in the year 1869.   

Nov 09   Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short) on this day in history.   

Nov 11   On this day in history victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia   

Nov 12   Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies on this day in history.   

Nov 15   Free postal delivery formally inaugurated in the year 1869.   

Nov 17   After work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal opens on this day in history.   

Nov 17   Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen) on this day in history.   

Nov 17   On this day in history suez Canal opens (Egypt)   

Nov 18   James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union) on this day in history.   

Nov 20   On this day in history clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)   

Nov 22   On this day in history andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)   

Nov 23   In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched on this day in history.   

Nov 24   American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland) in the year 1869.   

Dec 02   Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects) in the year 1869.   

Dec 06   Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Dec 08   In the year 1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome   

Dec 09   On this day in history noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia   

Dec 10   On this day in history women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)   

Dec 16   Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography) on this day in history.   

Dec 17   On this day in history nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer   

Dec 18   Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game in the year 1869.   

Dec 18   In the year 1869 louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40   

Dec 19   Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer) in the year 1869.   

Dec 20   Charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady) on this day in history.   

Dec 22   On this day in history andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947)   

Dec 22   On this day in history newfoundlanders vote against joining Confederation. (later they see the error of their ways and join up)   

Dec 24   In the year 1869 edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55   

Dec 24   On this day in history henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest)   

Dec 26   In the year 1869 harry Redman, composer   

Dec 27   First issue of the Ottawa Free Press newspaper published on this day in history.   

Dec 27   On this day in history louis Riel 1844-1885 elected President of the Provisional Government of Rupert's Land and the North West; with powers to negotiate with Canadian Commissioner Donald A. Smith   

Dec 28   The Knights of Labor, a union of Philadelphia, PA tailors, hold the first Labor Day ceremonies in the US in the year 1869.   

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Jan 03   Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer was born in the year 1869.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of percy Pitt, composer   

Jan 04   In the year 1869 birth of tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist   

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of stanisÅ‚aw WyspiaÅ„ski, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer   

Jan 19   In the year 1869 birth of alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations)   

Jan 22   In the year 1869 birth of grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)   

Jan 01   Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786) died on this day in history.   

Jan 17   Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

Jan 26   Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846) died on this day in history.   

Jan 28   Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer, dies at 72 in the year 1869.   

Jan 30   On this day in history death of william Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)   

Feb 01   Frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

Feb 04   In the year 1869 johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60   

Feb 15   In the year 1869 death of mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)