What Happened In December 1879 - Historical Events 1879 December

Historical Events for December, 1879

28th » Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland known as United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
31st » Thomas Edison demonstrates Incandescent light bulb called incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Edison, New Jersey e.g Menlo Park, New Jersey.

3rd » Albert Asher, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1965)
3rd » Charles Hutchison, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
3rd » Kafū Nagai, Japanese author and playwright (d. 1959)
3rd » Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 5th Minister of National Defence (Canada) known as Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1970)
5th » Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and businessman, founded the Cessna or Cessna Aircraft Corporation (d. 1954)
7th » Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic (d. 1972)
18th » Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter (d. 1940)
22nd » Karel Hašler, Czech people or Czech songwriter, actor, lyricist, director, composer, writer, dramatist and screenwriter, murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (b. 1941)
24th » Otto Fickeisen, German rower (d. 1963)
24th » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (d. 1941)
24th » Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1952)
27th » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor and singer (d. 1954)
29th » Billy Mitchell, American general (d. 1936)
30th » Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 1950)

6th » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (b. 1814)
7th » Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic politician, 1st List of Speakers of the Parliament of Iceland known as Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
30th » Manuel de Araújo Porto Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, Brazilian poet and painter (b. 1806)