What Happened in January 1882

Historical Events

Jan 13 Richard Wagner completes his final opera "Parsifal"

Jan 15 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
Jan 15 French explorer Jules Nicholas Crevaux is the first European to discover an Inca City near Sarta, north-west Argentina
Jan 17 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens her office
Jan 25 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
Jan 26 France government of Gambetta falls

Jan 3 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (Pygmalion), born in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1939)
Jan 4 Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist, born in Nizhny Lomov, Russia (d. 1943)
Jan 5 Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War", born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1958)
Jan 6 Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter, born in Białystok, Poland (d. 1949)
Jan 6 Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, born in İbriktepe, Turkey (d. 1965)
Jan 6 Samuel Rayburn, American politician (US Representative (D) from Texas, 1913-61; Speaker of the House for 17 years), born in Kingston, Tennessee (d. 1961)
Jan 10 Charles Trowbridge, Mexican-American actor (Fatal Hour), born in Veracruz, Mexico (d. 1967)
Jan 12 Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist and etymologist, born in Wängi, Switzerland (d. 1952)
Jan 12 Milton Sills, American actor (The Sea Hawk), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1930)
Jan 14 Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and writer (Story of America), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Jan 15 Florian Znaniecki, Polish philosopher and sociologist, born in Świątniki, Poland (d. 1958)
Jan 15 Princess Margaret of Sweden, born in Surrey, England (d. 1920)

Jan 17 American gambler and mobster who fixed the 1919 World Series, born in New York City

Jan 17 Noah Beery, American character actor (Story of Esther, The Mark of Zorro), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1946)

Jan 18 English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, born in Hampstead, Middlesex

Jan 18 Jacob Clay, Dutch philosopher and physicist (cosmic rays as charged particles), born in Berkhout, Netherlands (d. 1955)
Jan 21 Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
Jan 22 Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1956)

Jan 25 British author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse), born in London

Jan 27 Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italian-American writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano), born in Perugia, Italy (d. 1982)

Jan 30 32nd US President (Democrat: 1933-1945), born in Hyde Park, New York

Jan 31 Josef van Schaik, Dutch politician and lawyer (Vice-Premier of the Netherlands), (d. 1962)

Jan 3 Clement Claiborne Clay, American politician (U.S. Senator from Alabama), dies at 65
Jan 3 William Harrison Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
Jan 4 John William Draper, British-American scientist, chemist, and early photographer, dies at 70
Jan 6 Richard Henry Dana Jr., American author (Two Years Before the Mast), dies at 66

Jan 7 Polish engineer, businessman and inventor who built the 1st modern oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp, dies at 59 [1]

Jan 7 Jim Fisk, American financier and "robber baron" of the Gilded Age known as Big Jim, dies of an abdominal wound a day after being shot twice by business associate Edward Stiles Stokes at 36