1879

1879

Anglo-Zulu War!

NYC: On the former site of 'P.T. Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome', the first Madison Square Garden opens.

Saccharine discovered.

Doc Holiday kills for the first time.

Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, NJ.

Born: E.M. Forster, Albert Einstein, Victor Sjöström, Will Rogers, Wallace Stevens.

Died: no one very interesting.

Bedrich Smetana - My Country