What Happened In February 1874 - Historical Events 1874 February

Historical Events for February, 1874

16th » Dollar coin (United States) or Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
21st » The 'Oakland Tribune known as Oakland Daily Tribune' publishes its first edition.
28th » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for Tichborne case e.g attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronets or Tichborne baronetcy.

1st » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1929)
3rd » Gertrude Stein, American poet and art collector (d. 1946)
6th » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (d. 1937)
9th » Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925)
11th » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author (d. 1953)
11th » Fritz Hart, English composer and conductor (d. 1949)
14th » Louis Handley, Italian-American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1956)
15th » Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d. 1922)
16th » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935)
17th » Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (d. 1956)
20th » Mary Garden, Scottish soprano (d. 1967)
22nd » Bill Klem, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)
23rd » Konstantin Päts, Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956)
24th » Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955)

9th » Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)
17th » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)