Page 6: Historical Events In 1871

Sep 13   Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)   

Sep 17   Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens   

Sep 19   Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)   

Sep 20   Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the inaugural bishop of Melanesia   

Sep 21   Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier.   

Sep 23   Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45   

Sep 23   Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer.   

Sep 25   Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies.   

Sep 26   Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78   

Sep 28   Pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44)   

Sep 30   John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet).   

Oct 01   General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht   

Oct 02   Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy.   

Oct 02   Cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)   

Oct 03   Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard)   

Oct 06   Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour.   

Oct 07   16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters   

Oct 08   A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'   

Oct 08   Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin   

Oct 09   Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)   

Oct 09   The Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.   

Oct 11   Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed.   

Oct 12   Pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan.   

Oct 13   The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York.   

Oct 14   Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman).   

Oct 17   Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa.   

Oct 17   President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus   

Oct 18   Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto).   

Oct 19   Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Wisdom of the Body)   

Oct 20   Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78   

Oct 20   Frederick Burton, IN, actor (One Way Passage).   

Oct 21   1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY).   

Oct 23   Columbia and Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup   

Oct 24   Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese.   

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Jan 05   Frederick shepherd converse: Newton mass, composer   

Jan 07   Émile borel: French mathematician and politician    

Jan 08   James craig: 1st viscount craigavon, irish politician   

Jan 09   Charles kortright: British(?) cricket player   

Jan 10   Enrica freiin von handel-manzetti: Austrian author (jesse & maria)   

Jan 12   Paul guthnick: German astronomer   

Jan 14   Pauline beersmans: [pljm van cuyck], flemish actress (hofslachter)   

Jan 15   Bertram shapleigh: Composer   

Jan 10   Pierre a du terrail: French writer,   

Jan 21   John j rochussen: Gov-general of neth-in   

Jan 29   Philippe-joseph aubert de gaspé: French canadian writer and seigneur (b. 1786)   

Feb 01   Alexander nikoleyevich serov: Composer,    

Feb 07   Heinrich engelhard steinweg: Piano manufacturer (steinway & sons) (b. 1797)   

Feb 20   Paul kane: Irish-born painter (b. 1810)   

Feb 26   Charles niellon: Belgian brigade general,   

Mar 18   Augustus de morgan: Indian-born british mathematician and logician (b. 1806)