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1873 Calendar

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•  February 20, 1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
•  March 1, 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
•  April 1, 1873 – The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.
•  May 12, 1873 – Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
•  May 20, 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
•  June 18, 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
•  August 2, 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
•  August 4, 1873 – Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
•  August 30, 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
•  October 3, 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.

•  January 11, 1873 – John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
•  January 20, 1873 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
•  March 7, 1873 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
•  May 2, 1873 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1944)
•  May 17, 1873 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
•  July 1, 1873 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
•  August 20, 1873 – Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
•  September 26, 1873 – Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
•  October 26, 1873 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
•  November 5, 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian athlete (d. 1935)