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1874 Calendar

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•  February 21, 1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
•  March 18, 1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
•  April 10, 1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
•  June 29, 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
•  July 1, 1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
•  August 5, 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
•  September 3, 1874 – The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
•  September 12, 1874 – The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
•  November 7, 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
•  November 25, 1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.

•  January 19, 1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
•  January 22, 1874 – Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
•  January 28, 1874 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
•  February 1, 1874 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
•  March 24, 1874 – Harry Houdini, (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
•  July 7, 1874 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
•  July 29, 1874 – James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
•  August 9, 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
•  September 21, 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
•  November 30, 1874 – Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)