Page 8: Historical Events In 1882

Sep 15   British general Wolseley occupies Cairo.   

Sep 16   Mart Saar, composer   

Sep 17   Anton H Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of Light).   

Sep 18   Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board).   

Sep 18   Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)   

Sep 19   Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht (1868-82), dies at 67.   

Sep 19   Paul-Marie Masson, composer   

Sep 21   Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer   

Sep 22   Emil Abranyi, composer.   

Sep 25   1st baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester)   

Sep 28   Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Barcelona Spain, essayist/philosopher.   

Sep 30   George Bancroft, Phila, actor (Underworld)/wife of Octavia Brooke.   

Oct 03   Gunther von Kluge, German fieldmarshal.   

Oct 05   Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics).   

Oct 06   1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0   

Oct 06   Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)   

Oct 07   1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0   

Oct 11   Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer.   

Oct 12   Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer.   

Oct 14   Charlie Parker, cricketer (legend Gloucs SLA, but 2-32 in only Test).   

Oct 14   University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.   

Oct 16   The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business   

Oct 19   Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley.   

Oct 19   Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright.   

Oct 20   Bela Lugosi, Hungary, actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space)   

Oct 20   Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41.   

Oct 22   Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65.   

Oct 24   Dr Robert Koch discovers germ that leads to tuberculosis   

Oct 24   Sybil Thorndike, England, actress (Saint Joan).   

Oct 25   Heinrich Max Ludwig, composer   

Oct 28   Athletics reveal $22000 profit in their 1st season in the Amer Assn.   

Oct 29   Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64   

Oct 30   William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific).   

Nov 02   Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61   

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Jan 01   W c wendelaar: Mayor of alkmaar (1919-34)/dutch mp (vvd)   

Jan 03   Willem benoy: Flemish actor/director (pygmalion)   

Jan 04   Aristarkh lentulov: Russian artist   

Jan 05   Herbert bayard swope: U.s. journalist who coined the term "cold war"   

Jan 06   Samuel rayburn: Tenn, (rep-d-tx), speaker of the house (1940-57)   

Jan 06   Aleksandra ekster: Russian painter    

Jan 06   Fan s. noli: Albanian bishop    

Jan 10   Charles trowbridge: Vera cruz mexico, actor (fatal hour)   

Jan 03   William h ainsworth: English writer (guy fawkes),    

Jan 04   John william draper: English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)   

Jan 06   Richard henry dana: U.s. novelist (two years before the mast) (b. 1815)   

Jan 11   Theodor schwann: German physiologist (b. 1810)   

Jan 13   Wilhelm mauser: German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)   

Jan 20   John linnell: British painter/minaturist/engraver,    

Jan 21   Anton emil titl: Composer,    

Jan 24   Levi boone: Mayor of chicago (b. 1808)