Page 6: Historical Events In 1874

Aug 16   Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26).   

Aug 21   Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27).   

Aug 22   Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer.   

Aug 22   Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies.   

Aug 26   16 blacks lynched in Tennessee   

Aug 27   Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies.   

Aug 27   Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931).   

Aug 29   Walter Field.   

Sep 01   28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office   

Sep 01   Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer   

Sep 01   Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia   

Sep 03   The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez"   

Sep 04   Johanna M "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach.   

Sep 11   Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer.   

Sep 12   1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.   

Sep 13   Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Vienna Austria, composer (2nd Quartet)   

Sep 17   Ben[jamin] Turpin, US, comic (Uncle Tom Without the Cabin)   

Sep 18   Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten).   

Sep 21   Gustav Theodore Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets)   

Sep 21   JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75   

Sep 26   1st Grand International Rifle match held.   

Oct 01   Rotterdam opens drink water pipes.   

Oct 01   Supply Corps purser, LT J. Q. Barton, given leave to enter service of new Japanese Navy to organize a Pay Department and instruct Japanese about accounts. He served until 1 October 1877 when he again became a purser in the U.S. Navy. In 1878, the Emperor of Japan conferred on him the Fourth Class of Rising Sun for his service   

Oct 06   Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50.   

Oct 08   Nance O'Neil, Oakland CA, actor (Cimarron).   

Oct 09   World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland   

Oct 10   Fiji is recorded as becoming a British possession   

Oct 14   Margarete Susman, writer.   

Oct 15   Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force.   

Oct 15   Otallo Morales, composer   

Oct 19   Mary Walsh and Charles Colson are 1st couple to be married in a balloon   

Oct 20   Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step)   

Oct 21   Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist   

Oct 26   All Grand Trunk Railway lines east of Montreal, 542 miles, are converted from 5' 6" to standard gauge   

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Jan 01   Hugo leichtentritt: Composer   

Jan 01   Gustave whitehead: German inventor    

Jan 01   Frank knox: American secretary of the navy    

Jan 04   Josef suk: Czech violinist/composer (asrael)   

Jan 04   Sven fleuron: Writer   

Jan 05   Joseph erlanger: Doctor (shock therapy-nobel 1944)   

Jan 06   Fred niblo: U.s. film actor, director, producer    

Jan 13   Jozef e van roey: Flemish cardinal/archbishop of mechlin   

Jan 04   Thomas gregson: Premier of tasmania (b. 1798)   

Jan 08   Charles etienne brasseur de bourbourg: French writer and historian (b. 1814)   

Jan 17   Chang & eng bunker: Chinese/thai siamese twins,   

Jan 19   H v fallersleben: Writer,    

Feb 03   Lunalilo: Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)   

Feb 08   David f strauss: German theologist,    

Feb 09   Jules michelet: French historian (history of france),   

Feb 17   [lambert] adolphe j quetelet: Belg astronomer/sociologist,