Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route   

Sep 29   Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer   

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

Sep 30   Ernst Isler, composer.   

Oct 01   In this year, Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause   

Oct 02   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)   

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

Oct 02   Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)   

Oct 05   Halfdan Cleve, composer   

Oct 07   Germany and Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant   

Oct 07   Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr   

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.   

Oct 12   British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan   

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

Oct 14   F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58.   

Oct 15   Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn).   

Oct 18   Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer.   

Oct 19   Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign.   

Oct 21   Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison invents the electric light   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb   

Oct 25   Jean Rogister, composer   

Oct 26   Leon Trotsky, Communist leader is born.   

Oct 26   Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]   

Oct 28   Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer.   

Oct 29   Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)   

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

Oct 31   Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies   

Nov 01   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   

Nov 02   Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)   

Nov 03   Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist.   

Nov 04   Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus   

Nov 04   James and John Ritty patent the cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon   

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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,