1878

Events

   * January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy
   * January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper
     in the United States.
   * February 2 - Greece declares war on Turkey.
   * February 11 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.
   * February 11 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK
   * February 18 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New
     Mexico
   * February 19 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison
   * February 28 - Mississippi State University is created by the
     Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical
     College of the State of Mississippi)
   * March 24 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
   * May 15 - Tokyo Stock Exchange established
   * July 13 - The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia completely independent
   * July 26 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling
     himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe
     box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later
     with a taunting poem inside.
   * September 3 - Over 640 die when when the crowded pleasure boat Princess
     Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
   * October 15 - The Edison Electric Company begins operation.
   * October 17 - John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of
     Canada.
   * West Bromwich Albion F.C. play their first match.

Births

   * January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (+ 1967)
   * January 12 - Ferenc Moln‡r, author (+ 1952)
   * January 20 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer († 1968)
   * January 25 - Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer
   * February 8 - Martin Buber, philosopher
   * February 5 - AndrŽ Citro‘n, automobile pioneer
   * March 16 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, archbishop of Mźnster and
     cardinal (+ 1946)
   * March 27 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, architect
   * March 31 - Jack Johnson, the first African American to hold a boxing
     title.
   * April 6 - Erich Mźhsam, German author (+ 1934)
   * April 24 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist
   * May 10 - Gustav Stresemann, politician and recipient of the Nobel Prize
     in peace 1926 (+ 1929)
   * May 26 - Isadora Duncan, dancer (+ 1927)
   * July 4 - George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, composer, actor, writer (+
     1942)
   * July 24 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author
   * December 25 - Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder (+ 1941)
   * December 26 - Jack Johnson, African-American boxer

Deaths

   * December 14 - The Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine, nŽe Princess
     Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria

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