What Happened In April 1880 - Historical Events 1880 April

Historical Events for April, 1880

18th » An Fujita scale known as F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.

1st » Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932)
3rd » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (d. 1903)
9th » Jan Letzel, Czech architect (d. 1925)
10th » Frances Perkins, American politician, 4th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1965)
10th » Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (d. 1948)
12th » Addie Joss, American baseball player (d. 1911)
13th » Charles Christie, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded the Christie Film Company (d. 1955)
18th » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968)
23rd » Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1942)
24th » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper (d. 1954)
27th » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
30th » Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, Scottish cartoonist (d. 1967)