Page 5: Historical Events In 1877

Jul 05   Wanda A Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne) on this day in history.   

Jul 06   On this day in history david Stanley Smith, composer   

Jul 09   1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held in the year 1877.   

Jul 09   The All-England Croquet Club at Wimbledon staged the world's first lawn tennis championship on in the year 1877.   

Jul 10   In the year 1877 the then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.   

Jul 13   Karl Erb, German tenor on this day in history.   

Jul 13   On this day in history wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65   

Jul 14   General strike brings US railroad to a stand still in the year 1877.   

Jul 16   In the year 1877 béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)   

Jul 19   1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64) on this day in history.   

Jul 19   The first Wimbledon tennis championships held on this day in history.   

Jul 20   Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9 in the year 1877.   

Jul 21   -27] US army breaks railroad strike on this day in history.   

Jul 23   1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations on this day in history.   

Jul 23   The first telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed in the year 1877.   

Jul 23   The first US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations in the year 1877.   

Jul 24   1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers on this day in history.   

Jul 24   The first time federal troops are used to combat strikers on this day in history.   

Jul 26   Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields) on this day in history.   

Aug 01   Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain) on this day in history.   

Aug 01   On this day in history sF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes   

Aug 02   SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes on this day in history.   

Aug 03   On this day in history karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75   

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

Aug 10   On this day in history big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians   

Aug 10   First 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 on this day in history.   

Aug 10   Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance on this day in history.   

Aug 11   In the year 1877 adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d.1954)   

Aug 11   In the year 1877 asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos   

Aug 12   On this day in history james Drummond, historical painter, dies   

Aug 12   Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device in the year 1877.   

Aug 12   Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device on this day in history.   

Aug 16   In the year 1877 karl L Hoschna, composer   

Aug 17   On this day in history asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of gibson Gowland, England, actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera)   

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)   

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator)   

Jan 12   Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934) was born in the year 1877.   

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)   

Jan 17   In the year 1877 birth of hans Jelmoli, composer   

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of may Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969)   

Jan 04   Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)   

Jan 11   On this day in history pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85   

Jan 24   In the year 1877 death of johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)   

Feb 01   In the year 1877 joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71   

Mar 04   Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42 in the year 1877.   

Mar 09   Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58 on this day in history.   

Mar 12   In the year 1877 crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52