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Marker stone on the battlefield of Little Bighorn, courtesy of Mark A. Wilson[/caption]
In the year 1876, Alexander Graham Bell is granted a U.S. patent for the telephone, ahead of Elisha Gray (Mar 7), thousands of Plains Indians gather at the Little Bighorn River (spring), Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is published in London (June), the first train ride from New York to San Francisco takes some 84 hours (Jun 4), Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeat Custer’s forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Jun 25-26), retaliated later at Powder River (Nov 25), Heinz Tomato Ketchup is introduced, Anheuser-Busch first markets Budweiser as a nationally sold beer, samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan - and all these fine people were born:
1876-0105 Konrad Adenauer* statesman/Chancellor of West Germany - Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1967/91)
1876-0105 Marie Grice Young* musician/ piano teacher /Titanic survivor - USA (1959/83)
1876-0110
1876-0111 Simo Kaario* actor - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1944/68)
1876-0112 Jack London* novelist/journalist/social activist - San Francisco, CA USA (1916/40)
1876-0123 Otto Diels* chemist/N - Hamburg, German Empire (1954/78)
1876-0123 Bess Houdini* (b Rahner) stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini - Brooklyn, NY USA (1943/67)
1876-0124 Theodor Tobler* chocolatier/ businessman/co-creator of Toblerone - Bern, Switzerland (1941/65)
1876-0201
1876-0202 Guido Jung* merchant/ banker/of German descent - Palermo, Kingdom of Italy (1949/73)
1876-0208 Paula Modersohn-Becker* painter - Friedrichstadt, German Empire (1907/31)
1876-0216 G. M. Trevelyan* historian - Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (1962/86)
1876-0301
1876-0310 Edvard Eriksen* sculptor (The Little Mermaid) - Copenhagen, Denmark (1959/82)
1876-0311 Josephine Heffernan* Irish-American nurse during WW1 - Dublin, United Kingdom (1962/86)
1876-0329 Ioannis Georgiadis* fencer/OG - Tripoli, Greece (1960/84)
1876-0401
1876-0405 Elizabeth Bass* physician/ educator/suffragist - Marion County, MS USA (1956/79)
1876-0409 Park Trammell* attorney/ politician/Governor of Florida - Macon County, AL USA (1936/60)
1876-0410
1876-0420
1876-0423 Aino Ackté* opera singer- Helsinki, GD of Finland (1944/68)
1876-0428 Thomas Crisp* commercial fisherman/posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross - Lowestoft, Suffolk, England (1917/41)
1876-0430
1876-0518 Hermann Müller* politician/Chancellor of Germany - Mannheim, German Empire (1931/54)
1876-0526 May Futrelle* (b Peel) writer/a RMS Titanic survivor - Atlanta, GA USA (1967/91)
1876-0531
1876-0601
1876-0604 Clara Blandick* (b Dickey) American actress - British Hong Kong (1962/85)
1876-0615 Renee Harris* theatrical manager/producer/Titanic survivor - Washington D.C. USA (1969/93)
1876-0620
1876-0621 Swami Kalyandev* ascetic supercentenarian - Kotana, Uttar Pradesh, India (2004/128)
1876-0630
1876-0702 Harriet Brooks* first female Canadian nuclear physicist - Exeter, ON Canada (1933/56)
1876-0729 Maria Ouspenkaya* actress/acting teacher - Tula, Russian Empire (1949/73)
1876-0807 Mata Hari* (b Margaretha Zelle) Dutch exotic dancer/convicted of being a German spy - Leeuwarden, Netherlands (1917/41)
1876-0808 Sophia Duleep Singh* suffragette/goddaughter of Queen Victoria - Elveden, Suffolk, England (1948/72)
1876-0820 John Henry Turpin* United States Navy officer - Long Branch, NJ USA (1962/85)
1876-0831
1876-0906 John Macleod* biochemist/physiologist/N - Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland (1935/58)
1876-0908 Inez Knight Allen* Mormon missionary/Utah politician - Payson, Utah Territory (1937/60)
1876-0910 Grikor Suni* Armenian-American composer - Getabek, Russian Empire (1939/63)
1876-0930
1876-1002 Arnold Peter Møller* shipping magnate/founder of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group - Dragør, Denmark (1965/88)
1876-1026 Grace Alekhine* (b Wishaar) artist/chess master - Beverly, NJ USA (1956/79)
1876-1102 Alfred S. Alschuler* architect - Chicago, IL USA (1940/63)
1876-1102 William Haywood* architect - Birmingham, England (1957/81)
1876-1110
1876-1113 Cary A. Hardee* lawyer/ banker/Governor of Florida - Taylor County, FL USA (1957/81)
1876-1123 P. Dempsey Tabler* opera singer/athlete/actor - TN USA (1956/79)
1876-1201
1876-1210
1876-1215 Henry Payson Dowst* novelist/ short-story writer - Bangor, ME USA (1921/44)
1876-1220
1876-1225 Muhammad Ali Jinnah* barrister/ politician/the founder of Pakistan - Karachi, Bombay British India (1948/71)
1876-1225 Adolf Windaus* chemist/N - Berlin, German Empire (1959/82)
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