Today in History for March 1879

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 6 of 6

1st - Library of Hawaii founded
3rd - 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
3rd - US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior
23rd - War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country.
27th - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
29th - Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 16 of 16

4th - Bernhard Kellermann, writer
5th - Walter Long, actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol)
5th - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
8th - M Lichnowsky, writer
8th - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium)
11th - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
11th - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
14th - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity)
15th - Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
19th - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
20th - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
25th - Otakar Zich, composer
26th - Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)
27th - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
27th - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
30th - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

1st - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
13th - Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
30th - David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74
30th - Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63

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