Page 8: Historical Events In 1885

Sep 24   5 German warships depart to Zanzibar.   

Sep 24   Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives)   

Sep 26   Anna M F "Annie" Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 6/26].   

Sep 28   Wilbur 'Lefty' Good, pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905).   

Sep 29   The inaugural practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England   

Sep 30   Bechuanaland is recorded as becoming a British protectorate   

Sep 30   Maria J Small-Gartmann, actress, dies at 60.   

Oct 01   Louis Untermeyer, NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems)   

Oct 01   Special delivery mail service begins in US.   

Oct 02   Ruth Bryan Rohde, US, (Rep), minister to Denmark   

Oct 04   Henricus Wijdefield, Dutch architect (Peace Palace)   

Oct 07   Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922).   

Oct 08   William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer   

Oct 11   Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician.   

Oct 13   The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia   

Oct 15   Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season   

Oct 15   Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season.   

Oct 16   Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, Italian marathoner (Olympic-DQ gold-1908).   

Oct 17   Aaf Bouber-ten Hoope, Dutch actress (Jantjes)/wife of Herman Bouber   

Oct 17   Baroness Karen Blixen, Danish author is born   

Oct 17   Baseball sets all players salaries at $1000-$2000 for 1885 season   

Oct 21   Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist.   

Oct 22   Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met).   

Oct 22   John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union   

Oct 24   Ernest Claes, Belgian author (Saints from Zichem).   

Oct 24   Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna.   

Oct 25   John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres   

Oct 28   V Chlebnikov, writer.   

Oct 29   George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58   

Oct 30   Ezra Loomis Pound, Hailey Idaho, poet (Cantos).   

Oct 30   Ezra Pound, American poet is born   

Oct 30   Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer, dies at 57   

Nov 01   In this year, Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei   

Nov 01   inaugural train service established over CP between Montreal and Winnipeg via Ottawa, Sudbury and the Lakehead   

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Jan 01   Roland diggle: Composer   

Jan 02   Johannes ringers: Dutch water engineer (dikes)   

Jan 05   Humbert wolfe: Italian-british poet    

Jan 08   John curtin: Victoria, australian pm (labor, 1941-45)   

Jan 08   A. j. muste: Dutch pacifist and activist   

Jan 11   Alice paul: Era advocate/founder (national woman's party)   

Jan 11   Jack hoxie: American actor, rodeo performer    

Jan 13   Alfred fuller: Ceo (fuller brush man)   

Jan 04   Eduard yosif kotek: Composer,    

Jan 06   Peter c asbjornsen: Norwegian fairy tale writer,    

Jan 13   Schuyler colfax: American politician (b.1823)   

Jan 19   Fred burnaby: English colonel/balloon pioneer,   

Jan 24   Martin r delany: Politician & black nationalist,   

Jan 26   Charles george gordon: Brit gov-gen (sudan), executed at 51   

Feb 14   Jules vallès: French writer (b. 1832)   

Feb 15   Leopold damrosch: Composer,