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 was born in the year 1874.   

Jan 01   Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)   

Jan 04   In the year 1874 birth of josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael)   

Jan 04   Sven Fleuron, writer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 1874 birth of joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of fred Niblo, U.S. film actor, director, producer (d. 1948)   

Jan 13   Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin was born in the year 1874.   

Jan 04   Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798) died on this day in history.   

Jan 08   Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814) died in the year 1874.   

Jan 17   Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62 in the year 1874.   

Jan 19   H v Fallersleben, writer, dies at 75 in the year 1874.   

Feb 03   Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835) died on this day in history.   

Feb 08   In the year 1874 david F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66   

Feb 09   In the year 1874 jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75   

Feb 17   [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belg astronomer/sociologist, dies at 77 on this day in history.