Today in History for May 1878
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Months in 1878: January February March April June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 13 of 13
2nd - US stops minting 20 cent coin
4th - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
8th - 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
14th - Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
19th - Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
21st - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25
23rd - Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
24th - CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
25th - Gilbert/Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore," premieres in London
27th - 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
27th - Australians Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19
31st - German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed
31st - US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 12 of 12
10th - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
11th - Jan Machiel Reyskens, oldest male resident of the Netherlands. Died 1990 aged 111.
14th - James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
15th - Francisco Pujol, composer
16th - Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
19th - Adam von Ahn Carse, composer
21st - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
21st - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
24th - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)
25th - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
28th - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
30th - Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 4 of 4
14th - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
22nd - Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52
27th - Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49
28th - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
