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   In the year 1879 joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer   

Sep 29   NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players on this day in history.   

Sep 30   On this day in history ernst Isler, composer   

Oct 01   In the year 1879 cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause   

Oct 02   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG) in the year 1879.   

Oct 02   Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG) in the year 1879.   

Oct 02   Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order) on this day in history.   

Oct 05   In the year 1879 halfdan Cleve, composer   

Oct 07   In the year 1879 germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant   

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 in the year 1879.   

Oct 12   In the year 1879 british troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan   

Oct 13   Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie) in the year 1879.   

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

Oct 15   On this day in history jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)   

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer in the year 1879.   

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

Oct 21   Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer in the year 1879.   

Oct 21   On this day in history thomas Edison invents the electric light.   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb on this day in history.   

Oct 25   Jean Rogister, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 26   Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS] in the year 1879.   

Oct 26   In the year 1879 the birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader   

Oct 28   In the year 1879 conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer   

Oct 29   Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932) on this day in history.   

Oct 30   In the year 1879 eily Malyon, London, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion)   

Oct 31   On this day in history big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies   

Nov 01   On this day in history pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)   

Nov 02   In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km on this day in history.   

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

Nov 03   Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist in the year 1879.   

Nov 04   On this day in history elkins patents refrigerating apparatus   

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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   In the year 1879 birth of emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory)   

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

Jan 01   In the year 1879 birth of william Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon)   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history 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   Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

Jan 13   On this day in history 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   In the year 1879 adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42   

Jan 29   Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80 in the year 1879.   

Feb 11   Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 21   Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 in the year 1879.