Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   In the year 1879 sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route   

Sep 28   In the year 1879 sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route   

Sep 29   Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer on this day in history.   

Sep 29   NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players in the year 1879.   

Sep 30   In the year 1879 ernst Isler, composer   

Oct 01   Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause on this day in history.   

Oct 02   In the year 1879 start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

Oct 02   On this day in history start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

Oct 02   On this day in history wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)   

Oct 05   Halfdan Cleve, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 07   Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant on this day in history.   

Oct 07   Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr on this day in history.   

Oct 08   War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter on this day in history.   

Oct 12   British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan in the year 1879.   

Oct 13   In the year 1879 peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)   

Oct 14   F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

Oct 15   Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn) on this day in history.   

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 19   Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign on this day in history.   

Oct 21   On this day in history marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer   

Oct 21   In the year 1879 thomas Edison invents the electric light.   

Oct 21   On this day in history thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb   

Oct 25   Jean Rogister, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 26   Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS] on this day in history.   

Oct 26   The birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader in the year 1879.   

Oct 28   Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 29   In the year 1879 franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)   

Oct 30   Eily Malyon, London, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion) in the year 1879.   

Oct 31   In the year 1879 big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies   

Nov 01   Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41) in the year 1879.   

Nov 02   In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km in the year 1879.   

Nov 02   On this day in history jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)   

Nov 03   Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist on this day in history.   

Nov 04   Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus in the year 1879.   

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Jan 01   Edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud)   

Jan 01   William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 02   Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1879 birth of pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)   

Jan 03   Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)   

Jan 09   On this day in history don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86   

Jan 13   In the year 1879 wF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58   

Jan 16   On this day in history death of octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)   

Jan 22   Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle on this day in history.   

Jan 23   Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42 on this day in history.   

Jan 29   On this day in history antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80   

Feb 11   On this day in history honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies   

Feb 21   In the year 1879 peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69