Today in History for Year 1884

Months in Year 1884: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 94 of 94

Jan 4th - Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
Jan 4th - The Fabian Society is founded in London.
Jan 8th - Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
Jan 18th - General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
Jan 18th - Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
Jan 19th - Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris
Jan 26th - 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
Feb 1st - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
Feb 7th - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
Feb 18th - General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
Feb 18th - Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
Feb 19th - Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people
Feb 26th - British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
Mar 8th - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
Mar 8th - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
Mar 12th - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
Mar 13th - Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
Mar 13th - US adopts Standard Time
Mar 17th - John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif
Mar 27th - 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
Apr 2nd - London prison for debtors closed
Apr 10th - US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
Apr 20th - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
Apr 21st - Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
Apr 22nd - Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos)
Apr 22nd - US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Apr 24th - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
May 1st - Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
May 1st - Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
May 1st - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
May 13th - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms
May 14th - Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
May 16th - 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25
May 17th - Alaska becomes a US territory
May 19th - Ringling Brothers circus premieres
May 22nd - 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
May 23rd - 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5
May 24th - Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
May 26th - Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 v England XI in 4 hours
May 29th - 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
May 31st - Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
Jun 3rd - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair
Jun 4th - 18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42
Jun 5th - William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
Jun 16th - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
Jun 24th - John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
Jul 3rd - Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
Jul 4th - 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
Jul 4th - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
Jul 5th - German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
Jul 5th - US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
Jul 10th - 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out
Jul 21st - 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's
Aug 2nd - Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
Aug 5th - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
Aug 7th - Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
Aug 11th - 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust
Aug 12th - Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval
Aug 28th - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
Aug 28th - Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
Aug 30th - Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
Sep 4th - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
Sep 10th - Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
Sep 20th - 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
Sep 20th - Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
Sep 23rd - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
Sep 24th - Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in NYC
Sep 26th - Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
Oct 6th - Naval War College forms in Newport RI
Oct 13th - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
Oct 14th - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
Oct 22nd - General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
Oct 22nd - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
Oct 23rd - 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
Oct 25th - 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3
Oct 27th - Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC
Nov 1st - The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
US President Grover Cleveland Nov 4th - Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term. The only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms
Nov 6th - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
Nov 6th - Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
Nov 8th - German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Nov 15th - Colonization of Africa orgainized at Intl conference in Berlin
Nov 17th - Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
Nov 22nd - T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
Nov 25th - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
Dec 1st - American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
Dec 6th - Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
Dec 9th - Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
Dec 12th - 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
Dec 16th - Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Dec 19th - Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Dec 24th - Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Dec 27th - Netherlands recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Dec 30th - Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 233

Jan 2nd - Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
Jan 3rd - Eli S Jones, US, evangelist (Christ of Indian road)
Jan 3rd - Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer
Jan 10th - James Philip Dunn, composer
Jan 12th - Louis Horst, composer
Jan 12th - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
Jan 13th - Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)
Jan 13th - Sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
Jan 17th - Noah Beery, US actor (Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf)
Jan 18th - Arthur Ransome, English author (Swallows & Amazons)
Jan 19th - Albert Louis Wolff, composer
Jan 20th - A[braham P] Merritt, US, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)
Jan 21st - Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
Jan 21st - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
Jan 23rd - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
Jan 25th - Edward Kilenyi, composer
Jan 26th - Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist (indians)
Jan 26th - Roy Chapman Andrews, US, scientist/explorer
Jan 28th - Auguste Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist), twin brother of Jean Felix Piccard
Jan 28th - Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist) twin brother of Auguste Piccard
Jan 28th - Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer (chromosome of sun)
Jan 29th - Juhan Aavic, composer
Jan 31st - Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady)
Jan 31st - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
Feb 1st - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
Feb 2nd - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army
Feb 2nd - S Z Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca)
Feb 4th - Julius Callewaert, Flemish dominican/bringing up children
Feb 4th - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14)
Feb 8th - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
Feb 9th - Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician)
Feb 10th - Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)
Feb 10th - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
Feb 12th - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist
Feb 12th - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
Feb 12th - Johan Laidoner, Estonian military commander (d. 1953)
Feb 13th - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
Feb 14th - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
Feb 14th - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
Feb 14th - Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
Feb 16th - Robert Flaherty, Mich, father of documentary film (Nanook of North)
Feb 17th - Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)
Feb 18th - Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)
Feb 18th - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
Feb 22nd - Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
Feb 23rd - Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade)
Feb 23rd - Herman Courtens, Belgian painter
Feb 26th - Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer
Feb 26th - Dina Appeldoorn, composer
Feb 26th - Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor
Feb 29th - Alfred Sendrey, composer
Mar 2nd - Leon Jongen, composer
Mar 4th - Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
Mar 10th - Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
Mar 11th - Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
Mar 11th - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974)
Mar 13th - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
Mar 13th - Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
Mar 13th - Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)
Mar 14th - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist
Mar 14th - Winter Haynes Watts, composer
Mar 15th - Rudolf Piskacek, composer
Mar 16th - Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
Mar 17th - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
Mar 18th - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
Mar 21st - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
Mar 23rd - Glauco Velasquez, composer
Mar 24th - Gino Marinuzzi, composer
Mar 24th - Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
Mar 25th - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
Mar 26th - Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
Mar 31st - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
Apr 1st - Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
Apr 2nd - Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958))
Apr 3rd - Jackie Matthews, cricketer (Aust leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912)
Apr 4th - Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
Apr 6th - Walter Huston, Tor, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
Apr 7th - Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
Apr 7th - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
Apr 9th - Franco Vittadini, composer
Apr 12th - Otto Meyerhof, Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel-1922)
Apr 12th - Tenby Davies, Welsh world champion runner (d. 1932)
Apr 17th - Leo Frank, American convict (d. 1915)
Apr 18th - Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart)
Apr 20th - Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
Apr 22nd - Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
Apr 22nd - John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Died Sept 3, 1992)
Apr 26th - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers)
Apr 27th - Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)
Apr 30th - Albert Israel Elkus, composer
May 1st - Felipe Boero, composer
May 1st - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
May 2nd - Francois de Vries, Dutch economist
May 5th - Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35)
33rd US President Harry Truman (May 8th) May 8th - Harry Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953), (d. 1972)
May 19th - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer) (or 5/10)
May 21st - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
May 22nd - Alceo Toni, composer
May 23rd - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
May 26th - Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

May 1st - "Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
May 29th - Irish writer Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd at St. James Church, Paddington, London

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 48 of 48

Jan 6th - Gregor Mendel, Austrian Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
Jan 6th - Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Ital/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75
Jan 17th - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
Jan 21st - Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75
Jan 24th - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75
Feb 8th - Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76
Feb 21st - John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71
Feb 23rd - Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23
Mar 1st - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
Mar 13th - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
Mar 14th - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
Mar 19th - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54
Mar 21st - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
Mar 30th - Hans Hampel, composer, dies at 61
Mar 31st - Jan T Beelen, Neth/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77
Apr 3rd - Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59
Apr 4th - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist and diarist (b. 1860)
Apr 5th - John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies
Apr 6th - Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68
Monk/Geneticist Gregor Mendel (Jan 6th) Apr 7th - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80
May 7th - Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72
May 9th - Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69
May 12th - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
May 13th - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
May 17th - Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43
Jun 8th - Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51
Jun 18th - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentine writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
Jun 21st - Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies
Jun 25th - Hans Rott, composer, dies at 25
Jul 5th - Victor Masse, composer, dies at 62
Jul 10th - Paul Charles Morphy, US lawyer/chess wizard, dies at 47
Jul 18th - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
Aug 1st - Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
Aug 6th - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
Aug 14th - Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46
Sep 17th - Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56
Sep 20th - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
Sep 28th - Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies
Sep 30th - Louis Lacombe, composer, dies at 65
Oct 3rd - Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Geur), dies at 44
Oct 31st - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
Nov 2nd - Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62
Nov 11th - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
Nov 16th - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
Nov 27th - Franziska "Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina/choreography, dies at 74
Dec 1st - William Swainson (lawyer), second, and last, Attorney-General (New Zealand) of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
Dec 4th - Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
Dec 28th - Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56