Page 5: Historical Events In 1879

May 25   W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker   

May 27   Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance)   

May 28   Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist   

May 30   92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May.   

May 30   92º F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland OH in May.   

May 30   Colin Blythe, cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I)   

May 30   Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden.   

May 31   1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition   

May 31   inaugural electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition   

May 31   Madison Square Garden opens its doors.   

May 31   Mark Hambourg, composer.   

Jun 01   Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.   

Jun 02   Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam).   

Jun 02   E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle at 23.   

Jun 03   Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer   

Jun 05   Adolf Wiklund, composer   

Jun 05   In this year, 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift claims in 2:42.75.   

Jun 06   L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect.   

Jun 07   Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer (Thule)   

Jun 09   Dudley Digges.   

Jun 10   Benjamin Lambord, composer   

Jun 11   Roger P Bresnaham, hall of fame catcher/manager   

Jun 11   Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39   

Jun 13   A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella   

Jun 13   George Gunn, cricketer (elegant English batsman 1907-30).   

Jun 16   Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)   

Jun 16   Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC   

Jun 16   Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC   

Jun 18   W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage   

Jun 21   F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately).   

Jun 21   F W Woolworth opens inaugural store (failed almost immediately)   

Jun 21   Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide).   

Jun 23   William Ewart Berry, 1st viscount Camrose/English nobleman   

Jun 24   Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer.   

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Jan 01   Edward m forster: England, novelist (howards end, passage to india)   

Jan 01   Emile argand: Swiss geologist (dekbladen theory)   

Jan 01   Ernest jones: British psychoanalyst (life & work of sigmund freud)   

Jan 01   William fox: Us film pioneer (nickelodeon)   

Jan 02   Johannes l "jan" walch: Dutch literary (grimaces)   

Jan 02   Pieter tesch: Dutch geologist (pedestal of nederlands)   

Jan 03   Grace anna goodhue coolidge: 1st lady (1923-29)   

Jan 05   Hans eppinger: Austrian physician   

Jan 09   Don joaquin bf espartero: Fieldmarshall/viceroy of navarra,   

Jan 13   Wf hendrik the navigator: Prince of neth/viceroy of lux,   

Jan 16   Octave crémazie: French canadian poet (b. 1827)   

Jan 22   Anthony durnford: British colonel,   

Jan 23   Adolf jensen: Composer,   

Jan 29   Antonia mb antonucci: Italian cardinal/diplomat,   

Feb 11   Honore daumier: Caricaturist/painter,   

Feb 21   Peter p van bosse: Dutch liberal minister of finance,