Page 5: Historical Events In 1873

Jul 04   On this day in history aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens   

Jul 06   On this day in history paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)   

Jul 10   In the year 1873 french poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol   

Jul 11   In the year 1873 american whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West.   

Jul 14   Ferdinand David, Dutch violinist/composer, dies at 63 in the year 1873.   

Jul 17   Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto) on this day in history.   

Jul 19   In the year 1873 louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building   

Jul 20   In the year 1873 witold Maliszewski, composer   

Jul 21   Jesse James & James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa) in the year 1873.   

Jul 22   In the year 1873 ettore Pozzoli, composer   

Aug 01   In the year 1873 san Francisco - first cable car begins service   

Aug 01   In the year 1873 sF's 1st cable car begins service   

Aug 01   The first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones in the year 1873.   

Aug 02   1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones in the year 1873.   

Aug 02   On this day in history frank Mori, composer, dies at 53   

Aug 02   In the year 1873 the first trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones   

Aug 03   Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo (1921-39) on this day in history.   

Aug 04   In the year 1873 damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War   

Aug 04   Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed) in the year 1873.   

Aug 06   John Wesley Work, composer in the year 1873.   

Aug 11   On this day in history john Rosamond Johnson, Fla, co-composer (Lift Every Voice & Sing)   

Aug 14   "Field & Stream" begins publishing on this day in history.   

Aug 14   On this day in history "Forest and Stream" begins publishing   

Aug 18   On this day in history 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494')   

Aug 18   In the year 1873 leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)   

Aug 18   The first ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494') on this day in history.   

Aug 19   On this day in history fred Stone, Longmont CO, acrobat/Broadway actor (Alice Adams)   

Aug 20   Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich) on this day in history.   

Aug 22   Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist on this day in history.   

Aug 23   Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens in the year 1873.   

Aug 26   In the year 1873 1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri   

Aug 26   Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

Aug 26   Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube) in the year 1873.   

Aug 26   The first US public kindergarten is authorized in St. Louis, MO in the year 1873.   

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Jan 01   Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses) was born in the year 1873.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)   

Jan 02   Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897) was born in the year 1873.   

Jan 03   In the year 1873 birth of ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of karl Straube, German organist/conductor   

Jan 07   In the year 1873 birth of adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)   

Jan 08   Lucien Capet, composer was born in the year 1873.   

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)   

Jan 03   On this day in history john Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71   

Jan 09   Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808) died on this day in history.   

Jan 18   Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803) died in the year 1873.   

Jan 20   The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799) died in the year 1873.   

Jan 28   On this day in history henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57   

Feb 01   In the year 1873 matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies   

Feb 07   In the year 1873 death of sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)   

Feb 13   Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies in the year 1873.