Today in History for August 1876

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 12 of 12

1st - Colorado becomes 38th state
8th - Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
8th - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
10th - 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
12th - Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
13th - Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
14th - Prairie View State University forms
15th - US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
16th - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
17th - Opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth
24th - Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
31st - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 11 of 11

5th - Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
7th - Mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)
12th - Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton)
14th - Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1922-34)
14th - Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Italian feminist/poet (Una Donna)
15th - Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist
16th - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
17th - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)
17th - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940
29th - Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
29th - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 2 of 2

2nd - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
19th - George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36

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