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Born :06/11/1876A L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, anthropologist/textbook author
Born :02/26/1876Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)
Born :05/17/1876Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
Born :10/28/1876Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist
Born :08/15/1876Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist
Born :08/14/1876Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1922-34)
Born :06/11/1876Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
Born :02/09/1876Alo‹s Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Ocean stand)
Born :11/17/1876Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor (Brussels, Belgium)
Born :11/26/1876Bart A Van de Leck, painter (Style)
Born :09/15/1876Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
Born :03/11/1876Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)
Born :08/29/1876Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
Born :02/25/1876Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery
Born :03/30/1876Clifford Whittingham Beers, US, mental hygiene pioneer
Born :11/07/1876Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal)
Born :03/11/1876David W˜nkoop, revolutionary socialist
Born :12/04/1876Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron send)
Born :09/26/1876Edith Abbott, dean U of Chic Social Sciences
Born :10/31/1876Eduard van Oort, zoologist (Ornitholoy of Netherlands)
Born :08/17/1876Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)
Born :01/12/1876Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer
Born :07/26/1876Ernest Schelling, Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)
Born :12/22/1876Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ital writer (Futurism e Futurista)
Born :04/28/1876Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats
Born :09/15/1876Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
Born :11/08/1876Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
Born :07/25/1876Gabri‰lla V M Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium
Born :02/16/1876George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi)
Born :03/02/1876G”sta Forsell, Swedish radiologist
Born :10/26/1876Harry B Warner, US, actor (King of Kings)
Born :04/19/1876Hendrik W A E, King of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/prince of Netherlands
Born :08/17/1876Henri G Winkelman, general/supreme commander/navy 1940
Born :04/17/1876Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On)
Born :06/23/1876Irvin S Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest)
Born :12/20/1876J Van Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences)
Born :01/12/1876Jack London, writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
Born :05/26/1876Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
Born :10/27/1876Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress/wife of Willem R [Faust]
Born :11/04/1876James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel
Born :02/28/1876John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
Born :09/06/1876John JR Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923)
Born :12/17/1876J£lio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (O esfinge)
Born :01/05/1876Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949)
Born :12/07/1876Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
Born :11/23/1876Manuel de Falla, C diz Spain, composer (El Amor Brujo)
Born :02/09/1876Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)
Born :08/05/1876Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
Born :08/12/1876Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton)
Born :08/07/1876Mata Hari, dancer/courtesan/spy (WW II)
Born :04/04/1876Maurice de Vlaminck, Paris, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
Born :07/11/1876Max Jacob, French writer (Concentration Camp, Le sige de J‚rusalem)
Born :07/17/1876Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
Born :12/25/1876Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)
Born :10/19/1876Mordecai (3 finger) Brown, hall of fame pitcher
Born :03/23/1876Muirhead Bone, Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture
Born :06/26/1876Nico[laas P], the Young, radio play actor
Born :04/22/1876O E R”lvaag, Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth)
Born :12/29/1876Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
Born :02/26/1876Pauline Musters, smallest man (1'11.2" (58.9 cm))
Born :03/02/1876Pius XII, [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58)
Born :11/05/1876Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
Born :04/22/1876Robert B r ny, Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914)
Born :07/17/1876Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
Born :09/13/1876Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg)
Born :08/17/1876Theodor D„ubler, German writer (Northern Lights)
Born :11/24/1876Walter Griffin, US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Aust
Born :07/02/1876Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23)
Born :01/03/1876Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communistic Party/pres (1949-60)
Born :09/06/1876Willem A Bonger, sociologist/criminologist (Race & Crime)
Born :06/21/1876Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
Born :07/04/1876William Farnum, US, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
Born :11/26/1876Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment




Died :07/15/1876Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82
Died :09/09/1876American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
Died :06/20/1876Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
Died :06/21/1876Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 82
Died :06/25/1876Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
Died :08/27/1876Eugne-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin, novelist/painter, dies
Died :10/18/1876Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
Died :05/07/1876Franz Grave von Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies
Died :08/29/1876F‚licien C David, French composer (Lalla-Roukh), dies at 66
Died :06/25/1876George A Custer, US general, dies at Little Bighorn
Died :06/08/1876George Sand, author, dies in Nohant France
Died :12/20/1876Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
Died :05/12/1876Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
Died :10/25/1876Ida von Dringsfeld, German writer (Schelde bis zur Mas), dies at 60
Died :10/20/1876Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian, dies
Died :06/25/1876John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn
Died :05/27/1876Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
Died :05/20/1876Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
Died :06/25/1876Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn
Died :03/05/1876Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author, dies
Died :06/25/1876Myles Keogh, US officer, dies at Little Bighorn
Died :07/11/1876Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72
Died :06/25/1876Thomas W Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
Interest:04/02/1876[Ang] Commemoration of James Lloyd Breck, priest
Interest:11/28/1876[RC] Commemoration of St Catherine Labour‚, virgin




Special :12/29/187611 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
Special :10/09/18761st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
Special :09/26/18761st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
Special :04/22/18761st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5
Special :05/23/18761st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
Special :06/27/18761st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)
Special :07/20/18761st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
Special :12/06/18761st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
Special :01/03/18761st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Mass
Special :04/01/18761st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
Special :06/14/18761st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
Special :07/04/18761st public exhibition of electric light in SF
Special :03/17/18761st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
Special :03/10/18761st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
Special :05/25/18761st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
Special :06/17/18761st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
Special :05/17/18767th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
Special :03/07/1876Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
Special :10/06/1876American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
Special :06/05/1876Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
Special :09/07/1876Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
Special :07/15/1876Baseballs 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
Special :06/17/1876Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
Special :04/11/1876Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organized
Special :07/09/1876Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC
Special :02/20/1876C H F Peters discovers asteroid #160 Una
Special :08/09/1876C H F Peters discovers asteroid #165 Loreley
Special :08/15/1876C H F Peters discovers asteroid #166 Rhodope
Special :08/28/1876C H F Peters discovers asteroid #167 Urda
Special :06/14/1876California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
Special :05/10/1876Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
Special :04/25/1876Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
Special :12/06/1876City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
Special :08/01/1876Colorado becomes 38th state
Special :11/23/1876Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Assn
Special :06/25/1876Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn
Special :10/31/1876Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die
Special :08/08/1876Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
Special :04/18/1876Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
Special :12/05/1876Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
Special :06/27/1876Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidents candidate
Special :11/07/1876Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in US college (Yale)
Special :12/05/1876Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
Special :03/17/1876Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
Special :03/01/1876Guernsey cattle club formed, Farmington, Conn
Special :05/26/1876HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
Special :02/15/1876Historic Elm at Boston blown down
Special :04/19/1876J C Watson discovers asteroid #161 Athor
Special :09/28/1876J C Watson discovers asteroid #168 Sibylla
Special :04/26/1876J Perrotin discovers asteroid #163 Erigone
Special :06/03/1876Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada
Special :08/12/1876Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
Special :11/07/1876Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennesse College
Special :12/07/1876NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
Special :03/16/1876Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
Special :10/23/1876New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
Special :08/17/1876Opera "G”tterd„mmerung" is produced (Bayreuth)
Special :04/08/1876Opera "La Gioconda" is produced (Milan)
Special :08/16/1876Opera "Siegfried" is produced (Bayreuth)
Special :01/26/1876Paul Henry discovers asteroid #159 Aemilia
Special :07/12/1876Paul Henry discovers asteroid #164 Eva
Special :04/02/1876Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila
Special :08/14/1876Prairie View State University forms
Special :02/07/1876Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
Special :10/26/1876President sends federal troops to SC
Special :04/21/1876Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #162 Laurentia
Special :09/28/1876Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #169 Zelia
Special :10/16/1876Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
Special :09/06/1876Race riot in Charleston SC
Special :09/17/1876Race riots in SC
Special :08/13/1876Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
Special :06/11/1876Republican pick Rutherford Hayes as president candidate
Special :05/02/1876Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
Special :03/02/1876Rutherford B Hayes elected president
Special :06/15/1876Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential cconvention
Special :02/17/1876Sardines 1st canned (Eastport, Maine)
Special :09/06/1876Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
Special :08/08/1876Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
Special :06/15/1876Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
Special :03/04/1876US Congress ends "impeachment" of Minister of War Belknap
Special :12/06/1876US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
Special :08/15/1876US law of 1868 removes indians from Black Hills
Special :01/04/1876V Knorre discovers asteroid #158 Koronis
Special :05/15/1876Vagrant wins Kentucky Derby
Special :07/08/1876White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
Special :10/16/187634øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
Special :10/12/187635øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
Special :01/10/187660øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
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