What Happened in August 1877

Historical Events

Aug 9 Henry Morton Stanley's party reaches Boma, Congo, after 999 days, losing half of the 228 members.

Aug 12 Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders

Aug 17 American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
Aug 22 Nez Perce (Niimíipu) indians flee into Yellowstone National Park
Aug 24 American outlaw John Wesley Hardin, wanted for murder, is arrested by Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida

Aug 1 Charlotte Hughes, British supercentenarian (lived under the rule of 6 monarchs and 24 British Prime Ministers), born in Middlesbrough, England (d. 1993)
Aug 1 Jan van den Tempel, Dutch politician (SDAP), born in Willemstad, North Brabant (d. 1955)
Aug 4 Dame Laura Knight, English impressionist artist, born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England (d. 1970)
Aug 5 Tom Thomson, Canadian painter, born in Claremont, Ontario (d. 1917)
Aug 6 Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (Senate Majority Leader), born in Lewiston, Maine (d. 1952)
Aug 7 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
Aug 10 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
Aug 10 Frank Marshall, American chess player (US Champion 1909-36), born in NYC, New York (d. 1944)
Aug 11 Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d. 1954)
Aug 16 Karl Hoschna, Tin Pan Alley-era composer (Every Little Movement), born in Kuschwarda, Bohemia (d. 1911)
Aug 25 Joshua L. Cowen, American inventor (electric train), born in NYC, New York (d. 1965)

Aug 26 Harriet Ware (Krumbhaar), American concert pianist, composer (Women's Triumphal March; The Rose Is Red; The Varying Shore), and music educator, born in Waupun, Wisconsin (d. 1962)

Aug 27 Charles Rolls, British aviator and auto manufacturer who co-founded Rolls Royce, born in Berkeley Square, London (d. 1910)

Aug 27 Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist (The Big Fisherman), born in Columbia City, Indiana (d. 1951)
Aug 27 Ernst Wetter, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Töss, Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1963)
Aug 29 Dudley Pound, British admiral of the fleet and 1st Sea Lord (Jutland, WW II), born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1943)
Aug 31 Lizzie Arlington, American baseball pitcher (first woman to play professional men's baseball 1898 Reading Coal Heavers), born in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania (d. 1919)

Aug 3 Karl Georg Lickl, Austrian pianist, physharmonica (type of harmonium) player, and composer, dies at 75
Aug 3 William Butler Ogden, American real estate investor, politician (1st Mayor of Chicago, 1837-38), railroad executive (president of Union Pacific, 1862-63), and philanthropist, dies at 72
Aug 5 Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden, dies at 77
Aug 12 James Drummond, Scottish historical painter, (b. 1816)

Aug 29 Brigham Young, 2nd president of Latter-day Saints, dies of peritonitis at 76