Page 3: Historical Events In 1877

Mar 18   President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC.   

Mar 19   Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match.   

Mar 19   Australia beat England by 45 runs in very inaugural Test match.   

Mar 24   University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat   

Mar 24   Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51.   

Mar 25   Australian immigrants' friend, Caroline Chisholm, dies in London.   

Mar 28   Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77.   

Mar 31   Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75.   

Mar 31   British high director/Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown.   

Apr 02   1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn   

Apr 02   Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik)   

Apr 02   The inaugural Easter egg roll held on White House lawn.   

Apr 07   Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63.   

Apr 10   1st human cannonball act performed in London.   

Apr 10   Alfred Kubin, writer   

Apr 10   Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC.   

Apr 12   British annex Transvaal, in South Africa   

Apr 13   A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, coins a slogan for the RCMP "They always get their man." Gee I always thought it was a Canadian eh saying.   

Apr 14   Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar   

Apr 15   1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass.   

Apr 19   Ole Evinrude, inventor (outboard marine engine)   

Apr 19   Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)   

Apr 19   The opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)   

Apr 23   Arthur Farwell, composer   

Apr 24   Charles Cuvillier, composer.   

Apr 24   Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans).   

Apr 27   Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris).   

May 04   Arthur Lang, US, boxer/businessman (Died Aug 8, 1992 at 115).   

May 05   Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.   

May 07   Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory   

May 08   1st Westminster Dog Show held   

May 08   The inaugural Westminster Dog Show held.   

May 09   Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.   

May 10   Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer.   

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Jan 02   Slava raskaj: Croatian painter   

Jan 04   Gibson gowland: England, actor (blind husbands, phantom of the opera)   

Jan 07   Johannes f buziau: Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)   

Jan 10   Frederick gardner cottrell: Inventor (elecrostatic precipitator)   

Jan 12   Frank j. corr: American politician    

Jan 15   Lewis m terman: Ind, psychologist (developed stanford-binet iq test)   

Jan 17   Hans jelmoli: Composer   

Jan 17   May gibbs: Australian children's author   

Jan 04   Cornelius vanderbilt: Us robber baron,   

Jan 09   Alexander brullov: Russia painter (b. 1799)   

Jan 11   Pietro romani: Composer,    

Jan 24   Johann christian poggendorff: German physicist (b. 1796)   

Feb 01   Joseph-leon gatayes: Composer,    

Mar 04   Hendrik e van rijgersma: Dutch governor (st maarten),   

Mar 09   Mark prager lindo: English/dutch author (neth spectator),    

Mar 12   Crystobal oudrid y segura: Composer,