Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

Sep 28   On this day in history sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route   

Sep 28   Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route on this day in history.   

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

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

Sep 30   On this day in history ernst Isler, composer   

Oct 01   On this day in history cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause   

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

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

Oct 02   In the year 1879 wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)   

Oct 05   On this day in history halfdan Cleve, composer   

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

Oct 07   On this day in history 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 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   In the year 1879 f Kornberger, writer, dies at 58   

Oct 15   Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn) in the year 1879.   

Oct 18   On this day in history grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer   

Oct 19   On this day in history afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign   

Oct 21   Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison invents the electric light on this day in history.   

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

Oct 25   In the year 1879 jean Rogister, composer   

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

Oct 26   On this day in history the birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader   

Oct 28   Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 29   Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932) in the year 1879.   

Oct 30   Eily Malyon, London, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion) on this day in history.   

Oct 31   Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies in the year 1879.   

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

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

Nov 02   In the year 1879 jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)   

Nov 03   In the year 1879 vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist   

Nov 04   Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India)   

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   Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 05   Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 09   In the year 1879 don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86   

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 in the year 1879.   

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