Today in History for September 1879

Months in 1879: January February March April May June July August October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 8 of 8

15th - Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
18th - The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
19th - Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days
20th - US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
23rd - Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
23rd - Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
28th - Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route
29th - NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 21 of 21

2nd - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
6th - Neal Rev Dodd, Iowa, actor (You Belong to Me)
6th - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
7th - Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, Dutch actor (Haddock Mary)
12th - Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter
12th - H de Bie, Dutch lawyer (children's law)
14th - Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent
15th - Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
17th - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
17th - Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
20th - Jacobo Conrad, [Coco Lepol/Elias Martinus], Curacaos composer
20th - Victor Seastrom, Silbodal Sweden, director (Wind, Under the Red Robe)
25th - Luis da Costa, composer
25th - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
26th - Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria, writer (Fairy, Samodiva Fee)
27th - Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author (Heroic Suite)
27th - Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
28th - Benjamin Christensen, Viborg Denmark, actor (Barnet, Mockery)
29th - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer
30th - Ernst Isler, composer
30th - Henry Casadesus, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 5 of 5

8th - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58
12th - Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49
14th - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
17th - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
28th - Nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered