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* 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.
* 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia ( d. 1879 )
* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )
However conservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, Aleksandar Stamboliyski ( 1879 – 1923 ).
* 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter ( b. 1793 )
* 1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
* 1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer ( d. 1931 )
* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )
* 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general ( d. 1919 )
* 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet ( d. 1879 )
* 1879 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress ( d. 1959 )
* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
* 1879 – Claude Grahame-White, English pilot ( d. 1959 )
* 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor ( d. 1879 )
* 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
* 1879 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist ( d. 1962 )
* 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( b. 1879 )
* 1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
Andreas Aagesen ( 5 August 1826 – 26 October 1879 ) was a Danish jurist.
* 1879 – Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine ( d. 1904 )
* 1879 – Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian centenarian and circus performer ( d. 1984 )
* 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1879 )
* 1939 – Joseph Lyons, Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1879 )
* Bill Bachrach ( 1879 – 1959 ), American swim coach known as " Bach "
Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.
1879 and Sandford
Standard time, as originally proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1879, divided the world into twenty-four time zones, each one covering 15 degrees of longitude.
Sandford Fleming, a Canadian, proposed worldwide Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute on February 8, 1879.
The town was named after Ignace Mentour by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1879.
1879 and Fleming
He was born the eldest of seven children of James Fleming DD ( died 1879 ), a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary Ann, at Lancaster, Lancashire and baptized on 11 February 1850.
* Fleming Family Letters A collection of 113 letters and other writings of Francis P. Fleming and the Fleming Family from 1879 to 1930.
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The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.
Clara Belle Marshall, from Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia, became the first woman to graduate from Acadia University in 1879.
The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.
These were not to be fully revealed until Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, who had become Schliemann's assistant in 1879, resumed the work at Hissarlik in 1892 after the first explorer's death.
It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.
Housman obtained a first in classical Moderations in 1879, but his immersion in textual analysis, particularly with Propertius, led him to neglect ancient history and philosophy, which formed part of the Greats curriculum, and thus he failed to obtain a degree.
The first Cuban labour organisation, the Cigar Makers Guild, was created in 1878, followed by the Central Board of Artisans in 1879, and many more across the island.
In France, a steady linking of all the river systems — Rhine, Rhône, Saône and Seine — and the North Sea was boosted in 1879 by the establishment of the Freycinet gauge, which specified the minimum size of locks so that canal traffic doubled in the first decades of the 20th century.
# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.
In 1879, his Ernest Maltravers was the first complete novel from the West to be translated into Japanese.
The first formal language is thought be the one used by Gottlob Frege in his Begriffsschrift ( 1879 ), literally meaning " concept writing ", and which Frege described as a " formal language of pure thought.
* 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
Francis Harry Compton Crick was the first son of Harry Crick ( 1887 – 1948 ) and Annie Elizabeth Crick, née Wilkins, ( 1879 – 1955 ).
Although the Colorado Agricultural College was founded in 1870, the first classes were held in 1879.
Frederic William Farrar first used the word " glossolalia " in 1879.
In 1879, he left home to work as an apprentice machinist in the city of Detroit, first with James F. Flower & Bros., and later with the Detroit Dry Dock Co.
Iowa State is a leader in agriculture, engineering, extension, and home economics, and created the nation's first state veterinary medicine school in 1879.
* 1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
In 1879 his first engine patent was granted to him and in 1886 Benz was granted a patent for his first automobile ...
The modern orthography was first proposed in 1879.
In 1879, Zamenhof wrote the first grammar of the Yiddish language, which he published in part years later in the Yiddish magazine Lebn un visnshaft.
First formulated by Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1879 as surgical antiseptic, it was given to dentists for oral care in 1895 and it was the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States, in 1914.
* 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the.
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