1888

1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). In Germany, 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors. {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 2.1 unknown dates 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 3 - 91cm telescope first used at Lick Observatory\n* January 12 – Blizzards in Dakota and Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas - 235 dead, many of which were children on their way home from school\n* January 24 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.\n* January 27 - In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.\n* March 11 - The "Great Blizzard of '88" begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. \n* March 22 - The Football League is formed\n* April 11 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.\n* May 13 - Brazil abolishes slavery.\n* June 19 - In Chicago Republican Convention opens at Auditorium Building. General Benjamin Harrison & Levi Morton will win the nominations.\n* August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.\n* September 4 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.\n* September 8 - In London, the body of Annie Chapman is found. She is considered the second victim of Jack The Ripper.\n* September 8 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.\n*September 30 - In London, the bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found. They are considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victim respectively.\n* October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.\n* November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat 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.\n*November 9 - In London the body of Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered the fifth and last of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders actually follow but police attribute them to copycat killers. \n* Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner\n* Annie Besant organizes a match girl strike\n* Slavery abolished in Brazil\n* Sarawak and Borneo become British protectorates\n* Axe murderer William Kembler is the first to be executed in an electric chair\n* Susan B. Anthony organizes a congress for women’s rights in Washington DC\n* National library in Athens, Greece\n* First railways in China\n* Kodak camera increases the popularity of photography as a hobby

Births

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\n* January 8 - Matt Moore, actor (d. 1960)\n* January 24 - Vicki Baum, writer (d. 1960)\n* January 24 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (d. 1958)\n* February 2 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer\n* February 17 - Otto Stern, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 (d. 1969)\n* February 25 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)\n* February 27 - Lotte Lehmann, singer (d. 1976)\n* March 4 - Knute Kenneth Rockne, American football player\n* March 10 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (d. 1966)\n* March 12 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer\n* March 17 - Frank Buck, "big game" hunter (d. 1950)\n* March 26 - Elsa Brändström, "The Angel of Siberia"\n* April 4 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1958)\n* April 6 - Hans Richter, German filmmaker\n* April 26 - Anita Loos, writer (d. 1981)\n* April 27 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress (d. 1917)\n

May-December

\n* May 10 - Max Steiner, composer (d. 1971)\n* May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (d. 1989)\n* May 23 - Zack Wheat, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1972)\n* May 25 - Miles Malleson, actor (d. 1969)\n* May 27 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six (d. 1979)\n* June 3 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (d. 1958)\n* June 6 - Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist\n* June 17 - John Bergman, Swedish founder of workshop in Motala (d. 1969)\n* June 24 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect\n* July 10 - Giorgio Chirico, painter (d. 1978)\n* August 13 - John Logie Baird, first demonstrated the television\n* August 16 - Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (d. 1943)\n* September 26 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet\n* September 26 - J. Frank Dobie, Texas folklorist and newspaper columnist.\n* October 7 - Henry A. Wallace, vice president of the United States\n* October 9 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician\n* October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist\n* November 23 - Harpo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (d. 1964)\n* November 26 - Francisco Canaro, tango composer (d. 1964)\n* December 4 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia\n* December 28 - F.W. Murnau, German director

unknown dates

\n* Raymond Chandler, American novelist\n* Maurice Chevalier, French actor\n* Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator\n* Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer\n* Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher\n* Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer\n* Max Steiner, Austrian film maker\n* Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist

Deaths

\n* January 29 - Edward Lear, British artist and writer\n* February 3 - Henry Maine, British jurist\n* March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist\n* March 9 - German Emperor Wilhelm I\n* April 15 - Father Damien, Belgian priest\n* June 15 - German Emperor Friedrich III\n* October 16 - John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago, United States\n* Anton de Bary, German biologist \n* Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals \n* Charles Cros, French poet\n* Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n