Page 6: Historical Events In 1879

Jun 26   Ismael Pasha steps down as khedive of Egypt.   

Jun 28   Sigurd von Koch, composer.   

Jun 30   Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods   

Jun 30   Walter Hampden, Bkln NY, actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)   

Jul 01   Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples   

Jul 01   Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)   

Jul 03   Philippe Gaubert, composer.   

Jul 04   Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony   

Jul 05   Dwight Filley Davis, US Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup   

Jul 06   Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65.   

Jul 07   Jacob Weinberg, composer.   

Jul 08   USS Jeannette departs San Francisco to explore Arctic   

Jul 09   C H F Peters discovers asteroid #199 Byblis   

Jul 09   Friedrich Adler, Austria social-democrat/murderer of premier Storgkh   

Jul 10   Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr (crystallized vitamin A)   

Jul 17   1st railroad opens in Hawaii.   

Jul 17   The inaugural railroad opens in Hawaii.   

Jul 19   Doc Holliday results in the deaths of for the inaugural time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon   

Jul 19   Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)   

Jul 22   Gustaf Heintze, composer.   

Jul 27   C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene.   

Jul 27   Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza).   

Aug 04   In this year, Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris.   

Aug 05   inaugural game of night football at Melbourne Cricket Ground, under gas-lights.   

Aug 06   Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)   

Aug 07   J J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07)   

Aug 07   The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester   

Aug 08   Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader.   

Aug 12   1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)   

Aug 12   inaugural National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)   

Aug 13   John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)   

Aug 15   Ethel Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)   

Aug 16   Ethel Barrymore, classic film and stage actress (Pinky, Moonrise)   

Aug 17   Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company   

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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,