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What Happened in August 1882

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Historical Events

  • Aug 3 US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
  • Aug 5 Martial law is imposed in Japan
  • Aug 5 Standard Oil of New Jersey is established
  • Aug 7 Hatfields of south West Virginia and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die
  • Aug 8 Snow falls on Lake Michigan

Victoria Meets Cetewayo

Aug 14 Queen Victoria receives Zulu chief Cetewayo

Queen of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria
  • Aug 16 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria

Music History

Aug 20 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow

Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Cricket History

Aug 29 Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket" with Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth posting 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44)

Cricketer Fred Spofforth

Events in 1882

Famous Birthdays

  • Aug 1 Vaclav Klicka, Czech composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1953)
  • Aug 2 George Sargent, English golfer (US Open 1909), born in Dorking, Surrey (d. 1962)
  • Aug 2 Johannes Tralow, German writer (Ottoman tetralogy), born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1968)
  • Aug 3 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist, born in Cotacachi, Ecuador (d. 1972)
  • Aug 5 Joe English, Irish-Flemish draftsman, painter, and soldier (designed WWI gravestones), born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1918)
  • Aug 6 Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch vicar and founder (Calvinist party), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1948)
  • Aug 8 Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
  • Aug 10 Max Kowalski, German pianist, singer, and composer (Pierrot Lunaire), born in Kowal, Russian Empire/Poland (d. 1956)
  • Aug 11 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian Marshal, fascist and Viceroy of Italian East Africa, born in Filettino, Italy (d. 1955)
  • Aug 14 Gisela Richter, English art historian, born in London (d. 1972)
  • Aug 16 Pierre H. Ritter Jr, Dutch literary, writer and journalist, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1962)
  • Aug 17 Dario Resta, Italian-British auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1916; Vanderbilt Cup 1915, 16; AAA National C'ship 1916), born in Faenza, Italy (d. 1924)

Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

Aug 17 Polish born Jewish-American film producer (The Best Years of Our Lives) and movie magnate, born in Warsaw, Poland

Samuel Goldwyn
  • Aug 18 Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, French organist and opera composer (Le Bon Roi Dagobert), born in Paris (d. 1955)
  • Aug 21 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter (Lady in Blue), and sculptor (The Nymph), born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1916)
  • Aug 22 Harry Makepeace, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 117; Lancashire CCC) and soccer midfielder (4 caps; FA Cup 1906 Everton), born in Middlesbrough, England (d. 1952)
  • Aug 25 Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician and President of Ireland (1945-59), born in Abbotstown, Dublin (d. 1966)
  • Aug 26 Carl Wilhelm de Vries, Dutch jurist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1967)
  • Aug 26 James Franck, German-American physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1964)
  • Aug 27 Jaroslav Křička, Czech composer, born in Kelč, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1969)
  • Aug 30 Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1943)
  • Aug 31 Charles O'Neill, Canadian composer and bandmaster, born in Duntocher, near Glasgow, (d. 1964)
Born in 1882

Famous Weddings

Booker T. Washington

Aug 2 US educational pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith

Booker T. Washington

Famous Deaths

  • Aug 1 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet (Bell Birds), dies of tuberculosis at 43

Famous People by Generation

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