See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 1 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins.
February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
February 13 - Thomas Edison becomes the second person to observe the Edison Effect.
March 10 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric
railway.
July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem
of Canada.
July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.
October - terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880".
October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
November - James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election.
November 11 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
November 22 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre
in New York City.
December 30 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first
president.
Discovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
Completion of Cologne cathedral.
Founding of Science by Thomas Edison.
Births:
January 4 -
Cornelis Marinus van den Houten.
January 6 -
Tom Mix, actor (d. 1940).
January 17 -
Mack Sennett, director, producer (d. 1960).
January 21 -
Adriaantje Okkerse.
January 26 -
Douglas MacArthur, general (d. 1964).
January 29 -
W.C. Fields, actor (d. 1946).
January 30 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States (d. 1945).
February 8 -
Franz Marc, artist, co-founder: Blauer Reiter (d. 1916).
February 12 -
John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d. 1969).
February 21 -
Fransina van den Houten.
February 21 -
Waldemar Bonsels, writer (d. 1952).
February 22 -
Frigyes Riesz, mathematician (d. 1956).
February 28 -
Baltus van den Houten.
March 10 -
Broncho Billy Anderson, actor (d. 1971).
March 13 -
Johannes Jacob den Engelsman.
March 13 -
Frank Thieß, writer (d. 1977).
March 22 -
Cornelia Hage.
March 30 -
Sean O'Casey, dramatist (d. 1964).
April 9 -
Frans Maarten van den Houten.
April 13 -
Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (d. 1955).
May 6 -
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938).
May 14 -
B.C. Forbes, financial publisher (d. 1954).
May 17 -
Maria Johanna (de) Vaal.
May 25 -
Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (d. 1967).
May 29 -
Oswald Spengler, philosopher (Decline of the West) (d. 1936).
June 22 -
Adriana Apolonia van As.
June 25 -
Christina Nieuwenburg.
July 5 -
Jan Kubelík, violinist (d. 1940).
July 15 -
Hendrik Cornelis van den Houten.
July 26 -
Aagtje Bruggeman.
August 8 -
Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961).
August 10 -
Robert L. Thornton, Dallas businessman, philanthropist
and mayor (d. 1964).
August 11 -
Gerrit van den Houten.
August 22 -
George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (d. 1944).
August 24 -
John N. Stoutjesdyk / Stouten.
August 31 -
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962).
November 6 -
Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (The Man Without Qualities) (d. 1942).
June 27 -
Helen Keller, socialist, pacifist, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968).
September 6 -
Annetje Hagedoorn.
September 22 -
Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1958).
October 9 -
Johannis Jacob Robijn.
December 2 -
Jacobus Jacob Barbier.
December 10 -
Marinus van den Houten.
December 12 -
Dimmen Hoek.
December 24 -
Maria van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 8 -
Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States
of America.
February 9 -
Adriaantje van den Houten.
May 4 -
Edward Clark, governor of Texas (b. 1815).
May 8 -
Gustave Flaubert, novelist.
May 14 -
Jacobus Grootenboer.
July 7 -
Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802).
August 25 -
Johannes Jacob den Engelsman.
November 11 - Bushranger
Ned Kelly hanged.
October 4 -
Jacques Offenbach, composer.
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