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* 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American aviatrix ( d. 1912 )
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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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They had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella ( 1837 – 1919 ), Jane ( died at 8 months ) and Harriet Marian ( 1840 – 1875 ).
It was at Smith's house at Hampstead that Stephen met his first wife, Harriet Marian ( 1840 – 1875 ), daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, with whom he had a daughter, Laura Makepeace Stephen ( 1870 – 1945 ); after her death he married Julia Prinsep Jackson ( 1846 – 1895 ), widow of Herbert Duckworth.
The couple had one son, Francis Welman Nicholls ( born 1863 ), and six daughters, Caroline ( born 1865 ), Louisa ( born 1868 ), Harriet ( born 1870 ), Virginia ( born 1873 ), Margaret ( born 1875 ), and Elizabeth ( born 1877 ).
1875 and American
A game which modern audiences would more readily recognize as American football occurred six years after the first ever game and occurred between Harvard University and Tufts University on June 4, 1875.
David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.
The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).
Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS ( October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946 ) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond ( see his Lewis dot structures and his 1916 paper " The Atom and the Molecule "), his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of Lewis acids and bases, and his photochemical experiments.
* John Ford House ( 1827 – 1904 ), American legislator who, from 1875 to 1883, served as Democratic representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district
* 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general ( d. 1875 )
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience 1875 – 1928, University Press of Kansas, 1975.
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