Today in History for July 1880
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Months in 1880: January February March April May June August September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 6 of 6
16th - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
19th - SF Public Library starts lending books
21st - Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
23rd - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
27th - A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
27th - Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 17 of 17
2nd - Albert Szirmai, composer
3rd - Carl Schuricht, composer
4th - George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912)
4th - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club)
5th - Jan Kubelik, composer
12th - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
14th - Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
18th - Otto Vrieslander, composer
20th - Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer
21st - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
24th - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
24th - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
26th - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
27th - Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
27th - Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
30th - Robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
31st - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 3 of 3
9th - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
21st - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
22nd - Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72
