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Special Events for the Year 1858 - back to GREGSITE

Born :09/16/1858A Bonar Law, (C) British PM (1922-23)
Born :09/16/1858Andrew Bonar Law, England, conservative premier
Born :04/15/1858Anton GO Rider Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher
Born :06/08/1858Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
Born :01/22/1858Betrice Potter Webb, England, economist
Born :09/15/1858Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer
Born :08/11/1858Christian Eykman, bacteriologist (avitaminosen (Nobel 1929)
Born :06/17/1858Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)
Born :08/19/1858Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
Born :04/15/1858Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Dl division du travail social)
Born :07/14/1858Emmeline Pankhurst, England, found (Women's Social & Political Union)
Born :09/25/1858Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist
Born :04/23/1858Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
Born :07/16/1858Eugne Ysa˜e, Belgium, violinist/conductor/composer (Pierill Hou‹ou)
Born :09/12/1858Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter
Born :07/09/1858Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man)
Born :04/01/1858Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
Born :03/01/1858Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
Born :06/29/1858George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)
Born :06/25/1858Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright
Born :06/22/1858Giacomo Puccini, Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly)
Born :12/22/1858Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer (La Bohme, La Tosca)
Born :01/15/1858Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter
Born :09/27/1858Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
Born :06/16/1858Gustav V, king of Sweden
Born :10/05/1858Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria
Born :05/24/1858Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer)
Born :10/15/1858John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92)
Born :05/08/1858John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
Born :12/20/1858John [Jean] T Toorop, painter/graphic artist (3 Brides)
Born :02/14/1858Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
Born :05/21/1858Jos‚ Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
Born :02/16/1858Laurence "Lon" Myers, US, track star (top US miler)
Born :08/19/1858Ludwig Wllner, German actor/baritone
Born :01/28/1858M Eugne F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist
Born :04/30/1858Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893)
Born :04/03/1858Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature
Born :04/23/1858Max KE Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck constant, Nobel 1918
Born :04/19/1858May Robson, [Mary J Robison], Australian/US actress (Apple Annie)
Born :01/27/1858Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model
Born :08/01/1858Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
Born :09/27/1858Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet (Pyrnar)
Born :05/19/1858Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller
Born :03/18/1858Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
Born :04/04/1858R‚my de Gourmont, French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour)
Born :11/20/1858Selma Lagerl”f, Sweden, novelist (Tales of a Manor-Nobel 1909)
Born :10/27/1858Theodore Roosevelt, NYC, (R) 26th Pres (1901-09; Nobel 1906)
Born :02/15/1858William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
Born :08/02/1858William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
Born :07/24/1858Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)




Died :08/02/1858A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent dies at 76
Died :09/17/1858Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court, dies
Died :08/14/1858George Combe, phrenologist, dies
Interest:02/11/1858[RC] Memorial of Apparition of Virgin at Lourdes (opt)




Special :08/21/18581st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
Special :04/12/18581st US billards championship (Michael J Phelan wins)
Special :02/11/18581st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes
Special :08/17/18581st bank in Hawaii opens
Special :07/29/18581st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed
Special :02/21/18581st electric burglar alarm installed (Boston, Mass)
Special :09/16/18581st overland mail for California
Special :11/09/18581st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
Special :08/02/18581st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
Special :09/01/18581st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
Special :06/16/1858Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Special :03/09/1858Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
Special :04/04/1858Asteroid 54, Kalypso discovered (named for goddess of silence)
Special :07/26/1858Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
Special :04/15/1858Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
Special :08/16/1858Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
Special :05/22/1858Confederaci˘n Granadina (now Colombia) forms
Special :08/05/1858Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
Special :06/02/1858Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
Special :09/28/1858Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed
Special :03/23/1858Eleazer Gardner of Philadelphia patents a cable car
Special :07/20/1858Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50›) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
Special :03/02/1858Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
Special :09/10/1858G Searle discovers asteroid #55 Pandora
Special :07/20/1858Gathering of Plombires - Napoleon III meets Cavour
Special :08/02/1858Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
Special :06/29/1858Great fire in London harbor
Special :02/04/1858H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #52 Europa
Special :09/10/1858H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #54 Alexandra
Special :09/13/1858Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
Special :05/30/1858Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
Special :03/30/1858Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser
Special :07/23/1858Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
Special :05/08/1858John Brown holds antislavery convention
Special :01/28/1858John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
Special :09/10/1858John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY)
Special :01/22/1858Laurent discovers asteroid #51 Nemausa
Special :09/08/1858Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
Special :06/21/1858Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
Special :10/28/1858Macys Dept store opens in NYC
Special :05/11/1858Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
Special :07/28/1858Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
Special :03/08/1858Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples)
Special :11/17/1858Origin of Modified Julian Period
Special :07/02/1858Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
Special :04/04/1858R Luther discovers asteroid #53 Kalypso
Special :10/27/1858RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
Special :08/15/1858Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
Special :08/24/1858Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
Special :02/13/1858Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
Special :06/29/1858Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
Special :07/29/1858US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
Special :05/04/1858War of Reform (M‚xico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
Special :01/30/1858William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"

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