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* 1875 – D. W. Griffith, American film director ( d. 1948 )
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* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.
Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.
* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).
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David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.
Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, ( Camille and Jean Monet ), 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
In 1875, however, producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury, which became a surprise hit.
In 1875, the manager of the Royalty Theatre, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, needed a short piece to fill out a bill with Offenbach's La Périchole.
By Himself, published by D. Appleton & Co., in two volumes, began with the year 1846 ( when the Mexican War began ) and ended with a chapter about the " military lessons of the war " ( 1875 edition: Volume I ;
In 1875, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, who was then managing the Royalty Theatre for Selina Dolaro, brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their second show, a one-act opera entitled Trial by Jury.
In response, Bergh himself, along with Elbridge T. Gerry and John D. Wright, formed the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NYSPCC ) in 1875.
In 1875, the English trader Thomas Keams escorted Hopi leaders to meet President Chester A. Arthur in Washington D. C. Loololma, village chief of Oraibi at the time, was very impressed with Washington.
* Jesse D. Bright ( 1812 – 1875 ), U. S. Marshal for Indiana ; later served as U. S. Senator for that state
In The Gross Clinic ( 1875 ), a renowned Philadelphia surgeon, Dr. Samuel D. Gross, is seen presiding over an operation to remove part of a diseased bone from a patient's thigh.
The adjoining town of Amity was laid out two days later by Willard D. Blake ( 5 February 1840 – 1 June 1875 ).
* James D. Porter, Jr. — Judge of the 12th Judicial Circuit of Tennessee 1870-1874, Tennessee governor 1875 – 1879, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company 1880-1884, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland 1885-1887, Minister to Chile under President Grover Cleveland 1893-1895, Chancellor of the University of Nashville 1901, President of Peabody Normal College 1902, later President of those two schools ' merging ( George Peabody College ) until 1909
* Andrew Inglis ( d. 1875 ), M. D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and Professor of Midwifery at Aberdeen University
The Universal North Building ( foreground ; Universal South Building is in the background ) located at 1875 Connecticut Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D. C. | N. W.
From October 1875 to January 1876 he was exploring the hinterland of Port Moresby under Octavius Stone, and in April 1876 went on another expedition under Luigi D ' Albertis for over 400 miles up the Fly River on the SS Ellengowan.
* Ware, I. D., Coach-Makers ' Illustrated Hand-Book, 1875: Containing Complete Instructions in All the Different Braches of Carriage Building, Astragal Press, 2nd edition, 1995.
* Richard Franchot, 1816 – 1875, town supervisor, Congressman 19th District, Civil War recruiter and Colonel in 121st NY, Albany & Suquehanna ( D & H ) RR president and surveyor of one of the earliest proposed trans-Adirondack routes.
D., FRIBA, MRTPI, RDI ( 12 May 1875 – 1 May 1960 ) was a Bolton-born English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, for Bristol Central Library, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadway and for the University of London's Senate House.
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