Events in History
- Apr 15 Boston-Somerville installs the world's 1st telephone in Massachusetts
- Apr 24 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
- Jul 11 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- Sep 24 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- Nov 29 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
- Dec 22 Thomas Edison's Phonograph is announced by Scientific American
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Hermann Hesse
Charles Rolls
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Aga Khan IIIHistorical Marriages
- Jul 11 Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (30) weds Mabel Hubbard (19) at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Charles Wilkes
Brigham Young
Crazy Horse
William Henry Fox Talbot
Nathan Bedford Forrest1877 in History Pictures
Rise and Fall of the Vanderbilt Empire
When he died on this day Cornelius Vanderbilt allegedly possessed more money than the U.S. Treasury. Much of it was squandered in lavish spending by descendantsJanuary 4Earmuffs on, shhhh!
Chester Greenwood's 1877 patent for "ear-mufflers" and inset, Greenwood modeling his earmuffsMarch 13Flash! Bang! It's the Human Cannonball!
An excited crowd looked up in astonishment and wonder when, in 1877, the first human cannonball flew above their heads.April 2
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