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August 1869 in History

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Events in History

  • Aug 10 O B Brown patents moving picture projector
  • Aug 12 Self-proclaimed Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton of the USA issues edict abolishing the Democratic and Republican parties
  • Aug 15 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto

Battle of Interest

Aug 16 War of the Triple Alliance: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Battle of Acosta Ñu

President of Paraguay Francisco Solano López
  • Aug 23 1st carload of rail freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston after a 16-day trip
  • Aug 24 American inventor Cornelius Swarthout patents stove-top waffle iron
  • Aug 27 1st international boat race (River Thames, Oxford beats Harvard)

Birthdays in History

  • Aug 10 Lawrence Binyon, English poet (For the Fallen), born in London, England (d. 1943)
  • Aug 23 Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist (Spoon River Anthology), born in Garnett, Kansas (d. 1950)
  • Aug 23 James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, San Francisco mayor (1912-31), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1934)
  • Aug 27 Karl Haushofer, German soldier and geographer, born in Munich, Bavaria (d. 1946)

Weddings in History

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Aug 7 German airship inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (31) weds Isabella Freiin von Wolff from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg, in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, until his death in1917

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Aug 21 Business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt marries second wife and cousin Frank Armstrong Crawford in London, Ontario

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Deaths in History

  • Aug 2 Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer and photographer, murdered trying to cross the Sahara at 33
  • Aug 26 Jan August Hendrik Leys, Belgian Romantic painter, dies at 54
  • Aug 31 Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)

Historical Figures

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