Today in History for February 1883

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 12 of 12

1st - French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
7th - Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
8th - Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen
10th - Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisc, kills 71
14th - 1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
16th - "Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing
17th - A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
21st - 2nd French government of Ferry begins
23rd - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
23rd - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
27th - Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
28th - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 23 of 23

1st - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
2nd - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer
3rd - Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter
3rd - Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
7th - Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)
7th - Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist
8th - Joseph A Schumpeter, Austria/US economist/minister of finance
11th - Paul August von Klenau, Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith)
12th - Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera)
13th - Bainbridge Crist, composer
13th - Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager
15th - Sax Rohmer (real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward), English author of Dr Fu Manchu novels (d. 1959)
16th - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980)
18th - Tom Walls, Kingsthorpe England, actor/producer (Undercover)
18th - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957)
20th - Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
21st - J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep)
22nd - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
22nd - Jaroslav Kocian, composer
22nd - Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
23rd - Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher
25th - Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
26th - Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetism)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

1st - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
13th - Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
13th - Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69
17th - Napoleon Coste, composer, dies at 76
17th - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)
26th - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)