Events in History
- Feb 14 Alexander G. Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
- Feb 17 Sardines first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine
- Mar 7 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
- Jun 25 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"
- Oct 31 Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), over 200,000 killed
- Nov 30 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) "the Mona Lisa of prehistory" [1]
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Konrad Adenauer
Pius XII
Harry Ford Sinclair
Willis Carrier
Mohammed Ali JinnahHistorical Marriages
- Aug 23 Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler
- Sep 27 Poet Frederic Mistral (46) weds Marie Louise Aimee Rivière
Gordon Granger
Santa Anna
George Armstrong Custer
Wild Bill HickokArticles and Photos
Telephone Invention Dispute? That Rings a Bell
There was fierce competition among 19th Century inventors to come up with a working telephone. Alexander Graham Bell won and was granted a patent on this day.March 7Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
The original drawing filed with Thomas Edison's patent application for the telephoneMarch 7Mr. Watson come here, I want you
Alexander Graham Bell spoke only briefly by phone to his assistant on this day in 1876, but it proved to be a pioneering moment in telecoms history.March 10Custer's Last Stand
George Armstrong Custer was a fun-loving rebel who developed into one of America’s national heroes. He will always be remembered for Custer’s Last Stand.June 25Why Mata Hari Was Not the Spy You Thought She Was
The controversial life and death of Mata Hari, the glamorous WWI double agent, executed in 1917, has recently been reassessed in the light of new evidence.August 7
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