Page 8: Historical Events In 1879

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

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

Sep 29   On this day in history joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer   

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

Sep 30   Ernst Isler, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

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) in the year 1879.   

Oct 05   On this day in history halfdan Cleve, composer   

Oct 07   Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant in the year 1879.   

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

Oct 08   In the year 1879 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   On this day in history british troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan   

Oct 13   On this day in history peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)   

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

Oct 15   In the year 1879 jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)   

Oct 18   On this day in history grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer   

Oct 19   In the year 1879 afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign   

Oct 21   In the year 1879 marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer   

Oct 21   Thomas Edison invents the electric light in the year 1879.   

Oct 21   In the year 1879 thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb   

Oct 25   In the year 1879 jean Rogister, composer   

Oct 26   In the year 1879 leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]   

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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Jan 01   Edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory)   

Jan 01   Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud) was born in the year 1879.   

Jan 01   William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1879 birth of johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)   

Jan 02   Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)   

Jan 05   In the year 1879 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   In the year 1879 wF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58   

Jan 16   In the year 1879 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   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 on this day in history.