WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1878
Find out what all happened July to September 1878

Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company. (1. September 1878)

Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire. (13. July 1878)

Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. (1. July 1878)

Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks. (4. July 1878)

The coat of arms of the Baku Governorate is established. (5. July 1878)

Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. (3. September 1878)

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