Page 9: Historical Events In 1879
Saturday, 21 February 2026
Nov 04 Will Rogers, American actor and humorist is born. 


Nov 04 Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Okla), humorist 


Nov 05 James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48 


Nov 06 Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day. 


Nov 06 Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician 


Nov 07 Eugeen Yoors, Flemish etcher/glass painter 


Nov 08 King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds) 


Nov 10 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven) 


Nov 13 Maurice Delage, composer. 


Nov 14 Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer 


Nov 15 Lewis Stone, Worcester Mass, actor (Prisoner of Zenda). 


Nov 17 Gerardus H de Haas, socialist vicar. 


Nov 19 Karel van den Oever, Flemish author/poet (Geuzenstad). 


Nov 19 National Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter 


Nov 19 Natl Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter 


Nov 20 Franz Pfemfert, writer. 


Nov 23 Andre Caplet, French composer/conductor (Conte Fantastic) 


Nov 27 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer 


Nov 28 Battle at Lydenburg S Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu. 


Dec 04 Herbert Hamilton Harty, composer 


Dec 05 1st automatic telephone switching system patented. 


Dec 05 Daniel and Thomas Connolly and Thomas McTighe received a patent for the inaugural automatic telephone system 


Dec 07 Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite). 


Dec 12 Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland. 


Dec 13 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware). 


Dec 13 inaugural federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington Delaware). 


Dec 15 Hugo W C Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer 


Dec 16 William Duncan, Scotland, actor (Thunder Trail). 


Dec 18 Paul Klee, Münchenbuchsee Switzerland, Swiss/German abstract painter (Twittering Machine). 


Dec 18 Paul Klee, Swiss Painter is born 


Dec 19 Beals C Wright, tennis champ (US Open-1905). 


Dec 20 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park. 


Dec 21 Joseph Stalin, Russian revolutionary leader is born. 


Dec 21 Theodore Limperg, business economist (substitute value). 


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