Page 8: Historical Events In 1876

Oct 23   New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office   

Oct 26   President sends federal troops to SC   

Oct 27   Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Un Soir Un Train)   

Oct 28   Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist.   

Oct 29   Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59   

Oct 31   Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200000 die.   

Oct 31   Eduard van Oort, zoologist (Ornithology of Netherlands).   

Nov 01   King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden).   

Nov 02   Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer.   

Nov 04   James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel.   

Nov 04   John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres   

Nov 05   Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe.   

Nov 05   Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)   

Nov 06   Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70.   

Nov 07   Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65.   

Nov 07   Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal)   

Nov 07   Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in US college (Yale)   

Nov 08   Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company.   

Nov 17   Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor (Brussels, Belgium).   

Nov 17   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people   

Nov 21   Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition and natives.   

Nov 23   Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Assn.   

Nov 23   Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association.   

Nov 23   The inaugural intercollegiate football association was established -- in Springfield, MA.   

Nov 24   Walter Griffin, US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Aust   

Nov 25   Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.   

Nov 26   Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)   

Nov 28   Bert Vogler, cricketer (early South African googly bowler).   

Nov 28   Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84   

Dec 01   Johanna W "Mina" Bakker, Dutch actress (Boefje)   

Dec 03   Hermann Goetz, composer, dies at 35   

Dec 04   Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems).   

Dec 05   Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench   

Dec 06   1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn   

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Jan 01   Johan c altorf: Sculptor (october 3rd monument)   

Jan 01   Harriet brooks: Canadian physicist   

Jan 03   Wilhelm pieck: Co-founder german communist party/pres (1949-60)   

Jan 05   Konrad adenauer: Cologne germany, chancellor of germany (brd, 1949)   

Jan 07   William yeates hurlstone: Composer   

Jan 09   Hans bethge: Writer   

Jan 10   Johannes w "jan" eisenloeffel: Dutch goldsmith   

Jan 11   Elmer flick: American baseball player   

Jan 07   Juste olivier: Swiss poet (b. 1807)   

Jan 09   Samuel gridley howe: American abolitionist (b. 1801)   

Jan 10   Charles eh de coussemaker: Belgian musicologist/historian,    

Jan 15   Eliza johnson: U.s. first lady (b. 1810)   

Feb 03   Gino capponi: Italian marquis/literary/premier of toscane,    

Feb 10   Johan august soderman: Composer,   

Feb 21   Henry john gauntlett: Composer,   

Feb 24   Jan pieter heije: Dutch physician/writer/poet,