Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). 1873 - Events. January 71 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Re ...

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1873 - January - April. January 71 - Indian Wars: First Battle of the Stronghold during the Modoc War. February 11 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. February 12 - Former foreign minister Emilio Cistelar y Ripoli becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. February 20 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California March 1 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start prod ...

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Hayyim Nahman Bialik (January 9, 1873–July 4, 1934), also commonly written as Chaim or Haim Nachman Bialik and in the Hebrew language as חיים נחמן ביאליק, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Bialik is considered one of the first, and certainly the most influential, of modern Hebrew poets, and is widely recognised as Israel's National Poet. Hayyim Nahman Bialik - Biography. Bialik was born in Radi, Volhynia in Ukraine to Yitzhak Yossef Bialik, a scholar and businessman, and D ...

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André-Gustave Citroën (Born February 2, 1878 and died July 3, 1935 in Paris) was a French entrepreneur of Dutch descent. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him. André-Gustave was the fifth and last child of the Dutch Jewish diamond merchant Levie Citroen and Mazra Kleinmann (of Warsaw, Poland). The Citroen family moved to Paris from Amsterdam in 1873 where the name changed to Citroën. His father ...

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German based company selling coffee, paper coffee filters, and coffee makers. Named after housewife Melitta Bentz (1873-1950), inventor of the drip brew paper coffee filter (German patent granted July 8, 1908). Part of the Melitta Group, which also has Melitta branches in other countries world-wide. The Utah teapot is a 3D model of a Melitta teapot which has become a standard reference object in the computer graphics community. Melitta - External links. Homepage of Melitta USA Homepag ...

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Alberto Santos-Dumont (July 20, 1873 - July 23, 1932) was an important early pioneer of aviation. Although he was born, grew up, and died in Brazil, his contributions to aviation were made while he was living in France. Santos-Dumont described himself as the first "sportsman of the air." He designed, built, and flew a variety of balloons before developing the first practical dirigible balloons (i.e. airships.). In addition, he made the first fully public flight of an airplane, in Paris in October of 1906. That aircraft, designa ...

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At birth he was created Duke of Östergötland. He entered the navy at the age of eleven, and was appointed junior lieutenant in July 1845. Later he studied at Uppsala University, where he distinguished himself in mathematics. On June 6, 1857 he married Princess Sophia Wilhelmina, youngest daughter of Duke William of Nassau. He succeeded his brother Charles XV, on September 18, 1872, and was crowned as king of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on July 18, 1873. At the accession he adopted as his motto Brödrafolkens väl ...

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Princess Nagako was born on 6 March 1903 in Tokyo, the eldest daughter of Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi (久邇宮邦彦 kuni no miya kuniyoshi ō, born at Kyoto, 23 July 1873 - 29 January 1929), by his wife, Chikako (俔子 chikako, born at Kagoshima, 19 October 1879 - 10 September 1956), the 7th daughter of Prince Shimazu Tadayoshi, former lord of Satsuma, 29th and last daimyo of the line. Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, a son of Prince Kuni Asahiko, was the head of one eleven cadet branches of the imperial family during the Meiji and Taisho ...

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1970 - January. January 4 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899) January 5 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) January 10 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925) January 18 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873) January 25 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877) January 27 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908) January 29 - Basil Liddell Hart, British military h ...

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Napoléon III paid the price for his Austrian blunder in 1870 when, forced by the diplomacy of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Napoléon began the Franco-Prussian War. This war proved disastrous for France, and was instrumental in giving birth to the German Empire, which took France's place as the major land power on the continent of Europe. In battle against Prussia in July 1870 the Emperor was captured at the Battle of Sedan (September 2) and was deposed by the forces of the Third Republic in Paris two days later. He died in exile in England on January 9, 1873. He is buried in the Imperial Crypt at Saint ...

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Aborigines call the landmark Uluru. This word has no special meaning in the local Pitjantjatjara language, rather, it is a local family name. In October 1872 the explorer Ernest Giles was the first non-indigenous person to sight the rock formation. He saw it from a considerable distance, and was prevented by Lake Amadeus from approaching closer. He described it as "the remarkable pebble". On 19 July 1873, the surveyor William Gosse visited the rock and named it Ayers Rock in honour of the then Chief Secreta ...

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Adair was the scene of the first successful train robbery in the American West when on July 21, 1873 the James-Younger Gang (led by Jesse James) took US $3,000 from the Rock Island Express which was stopped in the city. Adair is recognizable from Interstate 80 by its yellow "smiley-face" water tower. ...

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Chloroform was discovered in July, 1831 by American physician Samuel Guthrie (1782-1848), and independently a few months later by French chemist Eugène Soubeiran (1797-1859) and Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) in Germany. Soubeiran, who produced chloroform through the action of chlorine bleach powder (calcium hypochlorite) upon acetone (propanone) or ethanol (an application of the generic process known as the haloform reaction). Chloroform was named and chemically characterised in 1834 by Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884). Its anaesthetic properties were noted early in 1847 by M ...

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Southfield was surveyed in 1817 according to the plan by Michigan territorial governor Lewis Cass. The first settlers came from Birmingham and Royal Oak, Michigan, as well as the states of New York and Vermont. The city was founded by John Daniels in 1823. It was first organized as a township on July 12, 1830. Southfield took its name from its location in the "south fields" of Bloomfield Township. A post office was established in 1833 and the first town hall built in 1873. The Southfield Fire Department was formed on April 6, 194 ...

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The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States on July 6, 1785. The word "dollar" is derived from the name of a European silver coin with the German name of "thaler" meaning "valley-er" after the mines' locations in what is now the Czech Republic. Until 1974 the value of the United States dollar was tied to and backed by silver, gold, or a combination of the two. From 1792 to 1873 the U.S. dollar was freely backed by both gold and silver at a ratio of 15:1 under a system known as bimetallism. In this system, the dollar could be exchanged fo ...

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The original track opened July 30, 1870 on what is now the site of the Fort Monmouth parade ground, but was closed from 1873 to 1881 due to financial difficulties. It was bought by David Durham Withers, George L. Lorillard, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and George P. Wetmore after which Withers ran the facility for more than a decade during which time he helped found racings Board of Control, a predecessor to The Jockey Club. From 1882 to 1890, the track increased in popularity, but legislation proposed in 1891 and enacted in 1894 barred parimutuel gamb ...

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Government Residents of the Northern Territory when annexed to the colony (later state) of South Australia: Administrator of the Northern Territory - Government Resident 1846 to 1912. Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy; 21 February 1846 Boyle Travers Finniss; 3 March 1864 William Bloomfield Douglas; 27 April 1870 George Byng Scott; 6 October 1873 Edward William Prince; 1 July 1876 John Langdon Parsons; 19 March 1884 John George Knight; 16 July 1890 ...

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In 711, Arabs and Berbers had converted to Islam, a religion founded in the 7th century by prophet Muhammad and which by the 8th century dominated all the north of Africa. A raiding party led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad was sent to intervene in a civil war in the Visigothic kingdoms in Iberia. Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, it won a decisive victory in the summer of 711 when the Visigoth king Roderic was defeated and killed on July 19th at the Battle of Guadalete. Tariq's commander, Musa bin Nusair quickly crossed with substantial reinforcements, ...

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When the province of Prince Edward Island entered Confederation on July 1, 1873, the Dominion of Canada was constitutionally bound to provide "efficient steam service for the conveyance of mails and passengers to be established and maintained between the Island and the mainland of the Dominion, winter and summer, thus placing the Island in continuous communication with the Intercolonial Railway and the railway system of the Dominion..." Following Confederation, early steamship services across Northumberland ...

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