What Happened In October 1879 - Historical Events 1879 October

Historical Events for October, 1879

7th » Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance (1879) or Dual Alliance.
8th » War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau Seminario named Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
22nd » Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).

2nd » Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
3rd » Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor and singer (d. 1938)
5th » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
7th » Joe Hill, American poet and activist (d. 1915)
9th » Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
11th » Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher (d. 1944)
13th » Edward Hennig, American gymnast (d. 1960)
15th » Jane Darwell, American actress (d. 1967)
24th » B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956)
28th » Channing H. Cox, American politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
29th » Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1941)
29th » Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician, List of Chancellors of Germany or Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969)