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Year '1888' ('
MDCCCLXXXVIII') was a
leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
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In
Germany, 1888 is known as the
Year of Three Emperors and is also a secret code to mean Adolf Hitler Heil Hitler (1=A, 8=H). Currently, it is the year that, when written in
Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). This record will not be equalled until
2388 (MMCCCLXXXVIII), or surpassed until
2888 (MMDCCCLXXXVIII).
Events of 1888
January - March
★
January 3 - The 91-centimeter telescope is first used at
Lick Observatory.
★
January 12 -
Blizzards (see: ''
Schoolhouse Blizzard'') hit
Dakota Territory, the states of
Montana,
Minnesota,
Nebraska,
Kansas, and
Texas, with 235 dead, many of whom were children on their way home from school.
★
January 27 - In
Washington, DC, the
National Geographic Society is founded.
★
February 27 - In
West Orange, New Jersey,
Thomas Edison meets with
Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for
sound film.
★
March 8 -The Agriculture College of Utah, which would become
Utah State University is founded in
Logan, Utah.
★
March 11 - The "
Great Blizzard of '88" begins along the
eastern seaboard of the
United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
★
March 22 -
The Football League is formed
★
March 27 -
Dorus Rijkers saves the 30-man crew of the ''
Renown'', risking his own life.
April - June
★
April 11 - The
Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam is inaugurated.
★
May 1 - The
United States Congress establishes the
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
★
May 13 -
Brazil abolishes the last remnants of
slavery.
★
May 28 - In
Scotland, the
Celtic F.C. played its first official match against the
Rangers F.C. and won 5-2
★
June 3
★
★ "
Kingdom of Sedang" formed in modern-day
Vietnam
★
★ ''
Casey at the Bat'' published
★
June 19 - In
Chicago, Republican Convention opens at
Auditorium Building. General
Benjamin Harrison &
Levi Morton will win the nominations.
★
June 29 - Handel's
Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at
The Crystal Palace, it being the earliest known recording of classical music.
July - September
★
July 25 - Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, who was purportedly the only person using
touch typing at the time, won a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio.. This date can be called as the birthday of touch typing method that is widely used now.
★
July 27 -
British parliament passes an act that permits
bicycles on road on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway. The law was abolished in 1930.
★
August 7 - The body of
Martha Tabram was found, a possible murder victim of
Jack the Ripper.
★
August 20 - There is a mutiny at
Dufile, India, and the
Emin Pasha is imprisoned.
★
August 31 -
Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She was perhaps the first of
Jack the Ripper's victims.
★
September 4 -
George Eastman registers the trademark
Kodak, and receives a patent for his
camera which uses roll film.
★
September 6 -
Charles Turner becomes the first cricket
bowler (a sport) to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by
Tom Richardson (twice),
J.T. Hearne,
Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and
Tich Freeman (six times).
★
September 8
★
★ In
London, the dead body of
Annie Chapman is found. She is considered to be the second victim of
Jack the Ripper.
★
★ In
England, the first 6
Football League matches ever were played.
★
September 30 - In
London, the bodies of
Elizabeth Stride and
Catherine Eddowes are found. They are generally considered
Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victim respectively.
October - December
★
October 9 - The
Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
★
October 14 -
Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: ''
Roundhay Garden Scene'' in
Roundhay,
Leeds,
West Yorkshire,
UK. Followed by his movie ''
Leeds Bridge''.
★
November 6 - The
U.S. presidential election, 1888.
United States Democratic Party incumbent
Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office, because he loses in the
Electoral College to
Republican challenger
Benjamin Harrison, after many bizarre decisions.
★
November 9 - In
London, England, the dead body of
Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of
Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.
★
December 23 - During a bout of
mental illness,
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear and gives it to a
prostitute.
Undated
★
Annie Besant organizes the
London matchgirls strike of 1888 in June
★
John Robert Gregg first publishes
Gregg Shorthand.
★ Prosecution of
Edward King,
Anglican bishop of Lincoln for using
ritualistic practices begins.
★
Sarawak and
Borneo become British
protectorates.
★
Susan B. Anthony organizes a "congress for women's" rights in Washington, DC.
★ National library in
Athens,
Greece, (established?)
★ The first
railway in
China goes into operation.
★ The
Kodak camera increases the popularity of
photography as a hobby.
★ The first recorded
film,
Roundhay Garden Scene, is made in
Roundhay in
Leeds,
West Yorkshire,
England. The film is two seconds and 18 frames in length.
★ First sightings of the dolphin
Pelorus Jack in
Cook Strait,
New Zealand.
★
Camborne School of Mines founded in
Cornwall,
United Kingdom.
★ The
Finnish epic,
Kalevala published for the first time in the
English Language by
John Martin Crawford.
★ An unknown inventor develops
Mum (deodorant), widely recognized as the first personal product developed to prevent body odor.
Births
The last surviving documented person born in 1888 was
Adelina Domingues who died aged 114 years on
August 21,
2002.
January - June
★
January 1 -
Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (d.
1947)
★
January 8 -
Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (d.
1960)
★
January 18 -
Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman (d.
1989)
★
January 24 -
Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d.
1960)
★
★
Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d.
1958)
★
February 2 -
Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d.
1969)
★
February 8 -
Edith Evans, British actress (d.
1976)
★
February 17 -
Otto Stern, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1969)
★
February 19 -
José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d.
1928)
★
February 20 -
Georges Bernanos, French writer (d.
1948)
★
February 25 -
John Foster Dulles,
United States Secretary of State (d.
1959)
★
February 27 -
Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. was an American historian (d.
1965)
★
February 27 -
Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d.
1976)
★
March 1 -
Ewart Astill, English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d.
1948)
★
March 4 -
Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d.
1931)
★
March 10 -
Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d.
1966)
★
March 26 -
Elsa Brändström, Russian nurse (d.
1948)
★
April 4
★
★
Tris Speaker,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d.
1958)
★
★
Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d.
1975)
★
April 6 -
Hans Richter, German filmmaker (d.
1976)
★
April 18 -
Duffy Lewis,
Major League Baseball player (d.
1979)
★
April 26 -
Anita Loos, American writer (d.
1981)
★
April 27 -
Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d.
1917)
★
May 10 -
Karl Barth, Protestant theologian (d.
1968)
★
★
Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d.
1971)
★
May 11 -
Irving Berlin, American composer (d.
1989)
★
May 17 -
Tich Freeman, English cricketer (d.
1965)
★
May 23 -
Zack Wheat,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d.
1972)
★
May 25 -
Miles Malleson, English actor (d.
1969)
★
May 27 -
Louis Durey, French composer (d.
1979)
★
May 28 -
Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d.
1953)
★
June 3 -
Tom Brown, American jazz musician (d.
1958)
★
June 6 -
Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d.
1974)
★
June 9 -
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator (d.
1960)
★
June 13 -
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d.
1935)
★
June 16 -
Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (d.
1980)
★
June 24 -
Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d.
1964)
★
June 27 -
Antoinette Perry, New York Stage Director,
Tony Award named for her (d.
1946}
July - December
★
July 5 -
Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1963)
★
July 10 -
Giorgio Chirico, Italian painter (d.
1978)
★
July 16
★
★
Percy Kilbride, American actor (d.
1964)
★
★
Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1966)
★
July 17 -
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1970)
★
July 22
★
★
Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d.
1950)
★
★
Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1973)
★
July 23 -
Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (d.
1959)
★
August 4 -
Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (d.
1965)
★
August 6 -
Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d.
1952)
★
August 13 -
Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d.
1975
★
August 14 -
John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor (d.
1946)
★
August 16
★
★
Armand J. Piron, American jazz musician (d.
1943)
★
★
T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d.
1935)
★
August 25 -
Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (d.
1963)
★
September 5 -
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,
President of India (d.
1975)
★
September 6 -
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d.
1969)
★
September 12 -
Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d.
1972)
★
September 16 -
Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1964)
★
September 26
★
★
J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and journalist (d.
1964)
★
★
T. S. Eliot, British (American-born) writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1965)
★
October 6 -
Roland Garros, French pilot (d.
1918)
★
October 7 -
Henry A. Wallace,
Vice President of the United States (d.
1965)
★
October 8 -
Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d.
1964)
★
October 9 -
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d.
1938)
★
October 16
★
★
Eugene O'Neill, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1953)
★
★
Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (d.
1979)
★
October 25 -
Lester Cuneo American actor (d.
1925)
★
November 7 -
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1980)
★
November 15
★
★
Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist (d.
1957)
★
★
José Raúl Capablanca,
World chess champion 1921-1927 (d.
1942)
★
November 23 -
Harpo Marx, American comedian (d.
1964)
★
November 26 -
Francisco Canaro, Uruguayan-born violinist and composer (d.
1964)
★
November 30 -
Ralph Hartley, American electronics researcher and inventor (d.
1970)
★
December 4 -
Alexander of Yugoslavia (d.
1934)
★
December 6 -
Will Hay, British actor and comedian (d.
1949}
★
December 7 -
Joyce Cary, Northern Irish author (d.
1957)
★
December 18 -
Robert Moses, American civil engineer, public works director, and highway and bridge builder (d. 1981)
★
December 19 -
Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (d.
1963)
★
December 28 -
F.W. Murnau, German film director (d.
1931)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Mariano Andreu,
Spanish painter (d.
1976)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
★
January 19 -
Anton de Bary, German biologist (b.
1831)
★
January 20 -
William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer, southern statesman (b.
1825)
★
January 29 -
Edward Lear, British artist and writer (b.
1812)
★
January 31 -
John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the
Salesian Society (b.
1815)
★
February 3 -
Henry Maine, British jurist (b.
1822)
★
February 5 -
Anton Mauve, Dutch painter (b.
1838)
★
March 6
★
★
Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b.
1832)
★
★
Josif Pančić, botanist (b.
1814)
★
March 9 -
German Emperor Wilhelm I (b.
1797)
★
March 12 -
Henry Bergh, founder of the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (b.
1811)
★
March 16 -
Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b.
1801)
★
March 23 -
Morrison Waite,
Chief Justice of the United States (b.
1816)
★
March 27 -
Francesco Faà di Bruno, mathematician (b.
1825)
★
April 15 -
Matthew Arnold, English poet (b.
1822)
★
May 26 -
Ascanio Sobrero, chemist (b.
1812)
★
June 15 -
German Emperor Friedrich III (b.
1831)
July - December
★
July 20 -
Paul Langerhans, German pathologist and biologist (b.
1847)
★
August 9 -
Charles Cros, French poet (b.
1831)
★
August 16 -
John Stith Pemberton, Founder of Coca-Cola
★
August 20 -
Henry Richard, Welsh peace campaigner (b.
1812)
★
August 23 -
Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist (b.
1810)
★
August 24 -
Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributions to
thermodynamics (b.
1822)
★
September 24 -
Karl von Prantl, philosopher (b.
1820)
★
October 16
★
★
John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b.
1815)
★
★
Horatio Spafford, author of hymn ''"It is well with my soul"'' (b.
1820)
★
December 31 -
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b.
1808)
Unknown dates
★ (none)
: ''See also .''
Marriages
★
January 1 -
Elias Disney &
Flora Disney
★
April 11 -
Henry Ford &
Clara Jane Bryant
★
May 2 -
Josephus Daniels &
Addie Worth Bagley
★
September 5 -
Billy Sunday &
Helen Amelia Thompson
★
September 11 -
Robert Homans &
Agnes Mary Josephine Mellon
★
November 29 -
Axel Blixen-Finecke &
Bertha Henriette Marie Castenschiold
★
December 20 -
Charles Urban &
Julia Avery
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