Today in History for February 1880
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Months in 1880: January March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 9 of 9
1st - The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
2nd - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
4th - Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in NYC
10th - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
12th - National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
13th - Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
16th - American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)
17th - Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
29th - Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy completed
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 18 of 18
1st - Antonio Guarnieri, composer
1st - Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer
3rd - Arnoldus JH Aerts, bishop of Neth-Guinea (1920-42)
8th - Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter)
9th - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
10th - Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
12th - John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60)
14th - Aida Overton Walker, US dancer/singer (In Dahomey, Salome)
14th - Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer
16th - Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946)
17th - Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24)
18th - Eric De Lamarter, composer
19th - Arthur Shepherd, composer
20th - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
21st - Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers)
21st - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
22nd - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
23rd - Edgar Istel, composer
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 1 of 1
29th - Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812, also on 29 February)
