Page 2: Historical Events In 1885

Feb 04   Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed).   

Feb 05   News of fall of Khartoum reaches London   

Feb 07   Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930).   

Feb 08   Edith Evans, London England, actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield).   

Feb 09   1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii.   

Feb 09   Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!.   

Feb 09   The inaugural Japanese arrive in Hawaii   

Feb 12   Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society.   

Feb 12   Licinio Refice, composer   

Feb 13   Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady (1945-52)   

Feb 15   Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52.   

Feb 15   Richard Wurz, composer.   

Feb 17   Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa.   

Feb 18   Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, composer, dies at 61.   

Feb 18   Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published   

Feb 21   Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat).   

Feb 21   The Washington Monument is dedicated   

Feb 21   Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)   

Feb 24   Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)   

Feb 24   Chester Nimitz, United States navy admiral is born.   

Feb 25   US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds.   

Feb 25   US Congress condemns barbed wire around govt grounds   

Feb 26   Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to England.   

Feb 26   Lili Green, [Alice Sally Mary], Neth/Eng dancer   

Mar 01   Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)   

Mar 03   1st US state (Calif) establishes a permanent forest commission.   

Mar 03   American Telephone and Telegraph (AT and T) incorporates   

Mar 03   Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government).   

Mar 03   US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail   

Mar 03   US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission   

Mar 04   Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London   

Mar 04   Grover Cleveland inaugrated as inaugural Democratic President since Civil War   

Mar 04   Willem H Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao).   

Mar 06   Ringgold "Ring" Lardner, US sports writer (You Know Me Al)   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of roland Diggle, composer   

Jan 02   In the year 1885 birth of johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes)   

Jan 05   In the year 1885 birth of humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940)   

Jan 08   In the year 1885 birth of john Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45)   

Jan 08   A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967) was born in the year 1885.   

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party)   

Jan 11   Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 13   Alfred Fuller, CEO (Fuller Brush Man) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   On this day in history eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29   

Jan 06   In the year 1885 peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72   

Jan 13   Schuyler Colfax,American politician (b.1823) died in the year 1885.   

Jan 19   In the year 1885 fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle   

Jan 24   On this day in history martin R Delany, politician & black nationalist, dies at 72   

Jan 26   In the year 1885 death of charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51   

Feb 14   Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832) died on this day in history.   

Feb 15   In the year 1885 leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52