Page 3: Historical Events In 1880

Mar 24   Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT   

Mar 25   Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61.   

Mar 26   Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens).   

Mar 26   Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62.   

Mar 28   Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67.   

Mar 29   Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62.   

Mar 30   Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World).   

Mar 30   Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright is born   

Mar 31   1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)   

Mar 31   Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44.   

Mar 31   The inaugural town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN).   

Apr 07   Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58   

Apr 07   V Knorre discovers asteroid #215 Oenone.   

Apr 08   Victor Schertzinger, composer/director (Uptown NY).   

Apr 10   J Palisa discovers asteroid #216 Kleopatra   

Apr 18   An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.   

Apr 23   Guess Saleh, [Sarief Bastaman], Javanese painter, dies.   

Apr 24   Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England   

Apr 26   Mikhail Fokine, Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance.   

May 01   Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)   

May 06   Baron W Edmund, Archangel and Ironside, British fieldmarshal   

May 09   Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54   

May 10   General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria.   

May 10   John Goss, composer/organist, dies at 79.   

May 11   Irving Berlin, American composer is born.   

May 12   Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights.   

May 15   Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)   

May 16   Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)   

May 16   Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76.   

May 18   In this year, 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso claims in 2:37.5   

May 19   Allard R Hulshoff, architect of Amsterdam (1924).   

May 20   Eugene LFC prince the Ligne, Belgian prince of Ambise, dies at 76   

May 21   Pablo Luna y Carne, composer   

May 22   Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80   

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Jan 01   Edie martin: London england, actress (titfield thunderbolt)   

Jan 01   Shalom asch: Poland, yiddish writer (motke ganev)   

Jan 02   Louis breguet: French aviation pioneer   

Jan 05   Nicolai karlovich medtner: Composer   

Jan 06   Tom mix: Mix run pa, silent screen cowboy actor (dick turpin)   

Jan 06   Yuliya lazarevna veysberg: Composer   

Jan 06   Tom mix: American actor   

Jan 10   Eduard m meijers: Dutch lawyer (short cause)   

Jan 04   Anselm feuerbach: German painter,   

Jan 08   [joshua] norton i: Emperor of us/protector of mexico,    

Jan 27   Edward middleton barry: English architect (b. 1830)   

Feb 29   Sir james wilson: Premier of tasmania (b. 1812, also on 29 february)   

Mar 02   Sir john macneill: Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)   

Mar 15   Jan k j de jonge: Dutch historian,    

Mar 23   Gustav adolf mankell: Composer,   

Mar 25   Joseph rummel: Composer,