What Happened In February 1883 - Historical Events 1883 February

Historical Events for February, 1883

23rd » Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an Competition law named anti-trust law.
28th » The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston

2nd » Johnston McCulley, American author (d. 1958)
4th » Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and director (d. 1973)
8th » Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
9th » Jules Berry, French actor (d. 1951)
13th » Hal Chase, American baseball player (d. 1947)
13th » Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director (d. 1922)
15th » Sax Rohmer, English author (d. 1959)
16th » Elizabeth Craig (writer) known as Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1980)
17th » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (d. 1969)
18th » Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957)
22nd » Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
23rd » Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
25th » Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
28th » Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish political activist and revolutionary (d. 1916)

13th » Richard Wagner, German director and composer (b. 1813)
17th » Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian activist (b. 1845)
26th » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)