Today in History for August 1885

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 8 of 8

7th - 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
10th - Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
11th - $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
14th - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
29th - Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
29th - Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
29th - Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
30th - 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 23 of 23

1st - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
3rd - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer
6th - Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
7th - Billie Burke, Washington DC, actress (Glinda-Wizard of Oz)
7th - Gordon Harker, London England, actor (Facts of Love, Champagne)
12th - Alexander Albrecht, composer
12th - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
12th - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
15th - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
15th - Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968)
15th - Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
16th - Charles Carson, London England, actor (Cry the Beloved Country)
17th - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society)
17th - Kurt Hiller, writer
18th - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
19th - Elsie Ferguson, NY, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages)
19th - Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
20th - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
23rd - Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
26th - Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
28th - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer
28th - Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
31st - DuBose Heyward, US novelist (Porgy)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

25th - "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28)
29th - Pulitzer Prize-winning American author ('Age of Innocence') Edith Jones (23), marries Edward "Teddy" Wharton (36)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

7th - Antony EJ Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83), dies at 46
12th - Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65
20th - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
28th - Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66

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