Historical Events In 1884

Feb 17   On this day in history arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)  

Feb 18   On this day in history burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)  

Feb 18   General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum on this day in history.  

Feb 18   On this day in history police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"  

Feb 19   Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people on this day in history.  

Feb 19   Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky &Indiana kill 800 people on this day in history.  

Feb 21   John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Feb 22   Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer on this day in history.  

Feb 23   On this day in history frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade)  

Feb 23   Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23 on this day in history.  

Feb 26   On this day in history british & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II  

Feb 26   Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer on this day in history.  

Feb 29   In the year 1884 alfred Sendrey, composer  

Mar 02   On this day in history leon Jongen, composer  

Mar 08   In the year 1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite  

Mar 10   Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda) in the year 1884.  

Mar 11   On this day in history jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)  

Mar 12   Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women on this day in history.  

Mar 12   Mississippi establishes first US state college for women in the year 1884.  

Mar 13   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit) on this day in history.  

Mar 13   On this day in history siege of Khartoum Sudan begins  

Mar 13   On this day in history the birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist  

Mar 13   On this day in history uS adopts Standard Time  

Mar 14   Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist in the year 1884.  

Mar 15   Rudolf Piskacek, composer on this day in history.  

Mar 16   On this day in history harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)  

Mar 17   John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif in the year 1884.  

Mar 17   John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, Otay CA in the year 1884.  

Mar 19   In the year 1884 alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54  

Mar 21   On this day in history george D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)  

Mar 23   On this day in history glauco Velasquez, composer  

Mar 24   On this day in history gino Marinuzzi, composer  

Mar 26   Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905) on this day in history.  

Mar 27   1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of eli S Jones, US, evangelist (Christ of Indian road)  

Jan 03   Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 10   James Philip Dunn, composer was born in the year 1884.  

Jan 12   Louis Horst, composer was born in the year 1884.  

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)  

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)  

Jan 13   In the year 1884 birth of sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas  

Jan 06   Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

Jan 17   On this day in history death of hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)  

Jan 21   Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Jan 24   Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Feb 08   Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

Feb 21   In the year 1884 john Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71  

Feb 23   Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23 in the year 1884.  

Mar 01   On this day in history death of isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)