Page 5: Historical Events In 1877

Jul 06   David Stanley Smith, composer   

Jul 09   1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held.   

Jul 09   The All-England Croquet Club at Wimbledon staged the world's inaugural lawn tennis championship on.   

Jul 10   The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.   

Jul 13   Karl Erb, German tenor.   

Jul 13   Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65.   

Jul 14   General strike brings US railroad to a stand still.   

Jul 16   Béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)   

Jul 19   1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64).   

Jul 19   The inaugural Wimbledon tennis championships held   

Jul 20   Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, results in the deaths of 9.   

Jul 21   -27] US army breaks railroad strike.   

Jul 23   1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations.   

Jul 23   The inaugural telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed   

Jul 23   The inaugural US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations   

Jul 24   1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers.   

Jul 24   The inaugural time federal troops are used to combat strikers   

Jul 26   Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields)   

Aug 01   Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain).   

Aug 01   SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.   

Aug 02   SF Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.   

Aug 03   Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75.   

Aug 05   Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo.   

Aug 10   Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians   

Aug 10   inaugural use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.   

Aug 10   Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance   

Aug 11   Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d.1954).   

Aug 11   Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos   

Aug 12   James Drummond, historical painter, dies.   

Aug 12   Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device   

Aug 12   Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device.   

Aug 16   Karl L Hoschna, composer.   

Aug 17   Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos.   

Aug 22   Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park   

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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,