Today in History for January 1883

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

4th - Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
6th - Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
10th - Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
13th - Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
13th - Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
16th - Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system
16th - Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
19th - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
20th - Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Aust MCG
22nd - England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG
30th - England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 18 of 18

1st - Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer/journalist (La Torre, Tre Croci)
1st - [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor (3 Drops of Water)/theater director
3rd - Clement Richard Attlee, (L) British PM (1945-51)
4th - Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Neth 1st female prof (Utrecht, 1917-52)
4th - Max Eastman, American critic/essayist and editor of The Masses (d. 1969)
6th - Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
7th - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II)
8th - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer
8th - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
8th - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
10th - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS]
10th - Florence Reed, Phila, silent film actress (Dancing Girl)
10th - Francis X Bushman, Norfolk VA, silent film actor (Ben Hur)
19th - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor
20th - Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces
21st - Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet
21st - Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
24th - Estelle Winwood, [Goodwin], England, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

4th - Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91
4th - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
5th - Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806)
10th - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
21st - Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62
23rd - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
24th - Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70