Page 6: Historical Events In 1877

Aug 25   Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)   

Aug 27   Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd).   

Aug 29   Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II).   

Aug 29   Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies.   

Aug 29   Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT.   

Sep 03   Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80.   

Sep 05   Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27.   

Sep 05   O W Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher.   

Sep 05   Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas.   

Sep 06   Petar Stojanovic, composer   

Sep 09   Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance.   

Sep 10   Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle).   

Sep 11   Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuania, founder (KGB).   

Sep 11   James Jeans, British mathematician is born   

Sep 11   Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen   

Sep 12   Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64.   

Sep 12   Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Jane Eyre).   

Sep 16   James J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe).   

Sep 17   Jean Hure, composer   

Sep 17   William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77.   

Sep 18   Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow).   

Sep 20   Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer.   

Sep 20   Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)   

Sep 23   Hurricane strikes Curacao and Bonaire results in the deaths of 200.   

Sep 23   Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies   

Sep 24   Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.   

Sep 25   Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28).   

Sep 26   Alfred Cortot, French pianist   

Sep 27   John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti   

Sep 28   Stanner E V Taylor, St Louis MO, director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona)   

Sep 30   1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)   

Sep 30   inaugural US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club).   

Sep 30   Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle.   

Oct 04   Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexico, revolutionary rebel [or 6/25]   

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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,