Demonstration of the free-fall prevention mechanism in 1854
In the year 1857, the Estonian newspaper, Postimees, is established (Jan 1), the largest slave auction in the United States history is held in Savannah, Georgia (Mar 3), the first Otis elevator is installed, in New York City (Mar 23), Indian combatants capture Delhi from the British East India Company (May 11), the Victoria and Albert Museum is officially opened in London (Jun 22), Sheffield F.C., the world’s oldest association football team, is established (Oct 24), Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada (Dec 31) - and all these fine people were born:
1857-xxxx George Dinning* former slave who sued the Ku Klux Klan - Simpson, County, KY USA (1930/c.73)
1857-0102 Stepan Khalturin* revolutionary/ responsible for an attempted assassination of Alexander II of Russia - Khalevinskaya, Russian Empire (1882/25)
1857-0102 Uryū Sotokichi* 瓜生 外吉 admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy - Kanazawa, Kaga, Japan (1937/80)
1857-0104 Émile Cohl* caricaturist/ cartoonist/animator - Paris, French Empire (1938/81)
1857-0106 Robert Viren* (b von Wiŕen) Baltic German naval officer/of Finnish descent - Novgorod, Russian Empire (1917/60)
1857-0108 Julius Brauns* German teacher/linguist/developer of a stenography system - Ludwigslust (1931/74)
1857-0112 Knut Ångström* physicist/son of A.J. Ångström - Uppsala, Sweden (1910/53)
1857-0114 Alice Pike Barney* painter - Cincinnati, OH USA (1931/74)
1857-0120 Charlotte Payne-Townshend* Irish political activist in Britain/m to George Bernard Shaw - County Cork, Ireland (1943/86)
1857-0126 12th Dalai Lama* (b Trinley Gyatso) - Lhoka, Tibet, Qing Dynasty (1875/18)
1857-0131 George Jackson Churchward* railway engineer - Stoke Gabriel, Devon, England (1933/76)
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1857-0202 Alexander Cameron Rutherford* lawyer/ politician/the first premier of Alberta - Osgoode Township, AB Canada (1941/84)
1857-0203 Giuseppe Moretti* sculptor - Siena, Italy (1935/78)
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1857-0213 **Almanzo Wilde**r* the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder - Burke, NY USA (1949/92)
1857-0222 Robert Baden-Powell* founder of the Boy Scouts Association - Paddington, London, England (1941/83)
1857-0222 Heinrich Hertz* physicist/inventor - Hamburg, German Confederation (1894/36)
1857-0301 Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg* writer/translator/activist - Malmö, Sweden (1920/63)
1857-0315 Christian Michelsen* shipping magnate/statesman/first Prime Minister of independent Norway - Bergen, Hordaland, Norway (1925/68)
1857-0321 Alice Henry* suffragist/trade unionist - Melbourne, Australia (1943/85)
1857-0323 Fannie Farmer* culinary expert/writer - Boston, MA USA (1915/57)
1857-0327 Ella Hepworth Dixon* author/ editor - Marylebone, London, England (1932/74)
1857-0401 Ernst Evald Bergroth* physician/also active in Minnesota/amateur entomologist - Pietarsaari, GD of Finland (1925/68)
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1857-0414 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom* daughter of Queen Victoria - Buckingham Palace, London, England (1944/87)
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1857-0419 Napoleon B. Broward* river pilot/ politician/Governor of Florida - Duval County, FL USA (1910/53)
1857-0422 Paul Dresser* singer/songwriter/actor - Terre Haute, IN USA (1906/48)
1857-0423 Ruggero Leoncavallo* librettist/ opera composer - Naples, Kingdom o the Two Sicilies (1919/62)
1857-0427 Theodor Kittelsen* painter/fable story illustrator - Kragerø, Grenland, Sweden-Norway (1914/57)
1857-0430 Eugen Bleuler* psychiatrist/ humanist/coined several psychiatric terms - Zollikon, Switzerland (1939/82)
1857-0501 Theo van Gogh* art dealer/brother of Vincent van Gogh - Groot-Zundert, Netherlands (1891/33)
1857-0507 William A. MacCorkle* teacher/ lawyer/governor of West Virginia - Lexington, VA USA (1930/73)
1857-0513 Ronald Ross* physician/N/polymath - Almora, British India (1932/75)
1857-0515 Williamina Fleming* astronomer active in the United States - Dundee, Scotland (1911/54)
1857-0524 Richard Mansfield* English actor-manager - Berlin, German Confederation (1907/50)
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1857-0602 Edward Elgar* composer - Lower Broadheath, Worcester, England (1934/76)
1857-0602 Karl Adolph Gjellerup* poet/novelist/N - Roholte, Præstø, Denmark (1919/62)
1857-0620 Mary Gage Day* physician/medical writer - Worcester, NY USA (1935/77)
1857-0701 Martha Hughes Cannon* Welsh-American physician/Utah State Senator/ to U.S. at age 3 - Llandudno, Wales (1932/75)
1857-0708 Alfred Binet* psychologist/inventor of the first practical IQ test - Nice, Kingdom of Sardinia (1911/54)
1857-0721 Mary Sargant Florence* painter - London, England (1954/97)
1857-0724 Henrik Pontoppidan* realist writer/N - Fredericia, Denmark (1943/86)
1857-0725 Frank J. Sprague* naval officer/inventor/“Father of Electric Traction” - Milford, CT USA (1934/77)
1857-0728 Juha Hakoniemi** brother of Mikko H. - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1862/5)
1857-0730 Adolphe Willette* painter/ illustrator/an architect of Moulin Rouge cabaret - Châlons-sur-Marne, France (1926/68)
1857-0812 Ernestine von Kirchsberg* Austrian landscape painter - Verona, Italy (1924/67)
1857-0815 Albert Ballin* shipping magnate/known as the father of modern cruise ship travel/CEO of the Hamburg America Line - Hamburg, German Confederation (1918/61)
1857-0830 Alexandra Gripenberg* newspaper publisher/ women’s rights activist/ politician - Kurkijoki, GD of Finland (1913/)
1857-0913 Milton S. Hershey* chocolate maker/ philanthropist - Derry Township, PA USA (1945/88)
1857-0915 William Howard Taft* politician/27usp - Cincinnati, OH USA (1930/72)
1857-0915 Anna Winlock* astronomer - Cambridge, MA USA (1904/46)
1857-0920 Léopold Bellan* industrialist/politician - Méré, Second French Empire (1936/78)
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1857-1002 Martinus Theunis Steyn* South African lawyer/politician/the sixth and last president of the independent republic the Orange Free State - Winburg, Orange Free State (1916/58)
1857-1002 A. E. Waite* poet/ occultist/co-creator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck - Brooklyn, NY USA (1942/84)
1857-1004 Ferdinand Kurlbaum* physicist - Burg bei Magdeburg, German Confederation (1927/69)
1857-1005 Ida Brander* (b von Reis) stage actress/active in Finland - Stockholm, Sweden (1931/73)
1857-1005 Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich* Irish language writer - Allt an Iarainn, County Donegal, Ireland (1942/84)
1857-1010 Cassie Chadwick* (b Elizabeth Bigley) highly skilled con artist - Eastwood, ON Canada (1907/e50)
1857-1014 Elwood Haynes* metallurgist/ automotive pioneer/inventor - Portland, IN USA (1925/67)
1857-1018 Liu E* 刘鹗 Chinese writer/archaeologist/politician - Dantu, Jiangsuate, Qing Dynasty (1909/51)
1857-1027 Ernst Trygger* lawyer/ politician/PM - Stockholm, Sweden (1943/85)
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1857-1108 A. C. Cuza* Romanian far-right politician/economist - Iași, Moldavia (1947/89)
1857-1117 George Marchant* British-Australian soft-drink manufacturer/ philanthropist/ emigration at 16 - Brasted, Kent, England (1941/83)
1857-1125 Frederick W. A. G. Haultain* lawyer/politician/ judge (to Canada at age 2) - Woolwich, England (1942/84)
1857-1202 Charles E. Rushmore* businessman - New York, NY USA (1931/73)
1857-1203 Joseph Conrad* Polish-British novelist - Berdychiv, Russian Empire (1924/66)
1857-1204 Ida Aalberg* actress - Janakkala, GD of Finland (1915/57)
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