Page 2: Historical Events In 1884

Feb 17   Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940).   

Feb 18   Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)   

Feb 18   General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum.   

Feb 18   Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"   

Feb 19   Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky and In kill 800 people.   

Feb 19   Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people   

Feb 21   John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71   

Feb 22   Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer   

Feb 23   Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade).   

Feb 23   Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23   

Feb 26   British and Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II   

Feb 26   Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer   

Feb 29   Alfred Sendrey, composer.   

Mar 02   Leon Jongen, composer.   

Mar 08   1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite   

Mar 10   Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)   

Mar 11   Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)   

Mar 12   Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women   

Mar 12   Mississippi establishes inaugural US state college for women.   

Mar 13   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)   

Mar 13   In this year, US formally adopts Standard Time   

Mar 13   Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins   

Mar 13   Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist is born   

Mar 14   Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist   

Mar 15   Rudolf Piskacek, composer.   

Mar 16   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   

Mar 17   John Joseph Montgomery makes inaugural glider flight, Otay CA   

Mar 19   Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54.   

Mar 21   George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure).   

Mar 23   Glauco Velasquez, composer.   

Mar 24   Gino Marinuzzi, composer.   

Mar 26   Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905).   

Mar 27   1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY   

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Jan 02   Jacques chardonne: [boutelleau], french writer (l'epithalame)   

Jan 03   Eli s jones: Us, evangelist (christ of indian road)   

Jan 03   Raoul armand georg koczalski: Composer   

Jan 10   James philip dunn: Composer   

Jan 12   Louis horst: Composer   

Jan 12   Texas guinan: American actress   

Jan 13   Johannes elsensohn: Dutch actor/writer (arie, novel from the jordan)   

Jan 13   Sophie tucker: [kalish], russia, singer/last of red hot mammas   

Jan 06   Gregor mendel: Augustine monk/heredity pioneer,    

Jan 17   Hermann schlegel: German ornithologist (b. 1804)   

Jan 21   Auguste franchomme: Composer,   

Jan 24   Johann christian gebauer: Composer,   

Feb 08   Arnold henry guyot: Swiss/us geologist/meteorologist,   

Feb 21   John pike hullah: Composer,   

Feb 23   Tambo tambo: Australian aboriginal/us circus attaction,   

Mar 01   Isaac todhunter: English mathematician (b. 1820)