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1872 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1872nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 872nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1872, the ...
August – Asa Whitney, merchant and promoter of the first transcontinental railroad (born 1791) August 11 – Lowell Mason, organist and composer (born 1792) September 18 – Augustus Seymour Porter, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1840 to 1845 (born 1798) September 22 – Garrett Davis, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (born 1801)
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. [ 3 ] She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California .
Last recorded uses of the stocks for judicial punishment, at Newbury, Berkshire (11 June) [8] and Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn, west Wales. [9]Exceptionally consistent rain brings the wettest calendar year on record over England and Wales with 1,284.9 millimetres (50.6 in) beating previous record from 1768 by 37.6 millimetres (1.5 in).
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.
Yellowstone timeline explained. While the hit show Yellowstone may have come out first, the Dutton family tree goes back much further than the Paramount show’s premiere. The series has two ...
[56] [57] The praxinoscope allowed a much clearer view of the moving image compared to the zoetrope, since the zoetrope's images were actually mostly obscured by the spaces in between its slits. [58] Reynaud mentioned the possibility of projecting the images in his 1877 patent, but did not complete his praxinoscope projection device until 1880 ...
Crime Victims Day ; Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979. Founding Day (Saudi Arabia) [127] Washington's Birthday, federal holiday in the United States. A holiday on February 22 as well as the third Monday in February. [128] National Cat Day