1882

Events

   * February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven,
     Connecticut
   * February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing
     championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
   * March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the United States Congress.
   * March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium
     responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).
   * March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
   * April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by
     Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
   * May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
   * August 5 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
   * August 20 - Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in
     Moscow.
   * September 5 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New
     York City.

   * Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist) discovers the
     tubercle bacillus.
   * Nikola Tesla invents alternating current generator
   * First Polar Year, an international scientific program.
   * Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the
     transcendence of pi

Births

   * January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)
   * January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
   * February 1 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of
     Canada
   * February 2 - James Joyce, author (d. 1941)
   * February 11 - Gheorghe Cucu composer
   * February 15 - John Barrymore, actor (d. 1942)
   * March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician.
   * March 21 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor (d. 1971)
   * March 23 - Emmy Noether, mathematician (d. 1935)
   * April 17 - Artur Schnabel, pianist
   * May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d.
     1951)
   * May 9 - Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist
   * May 13 - Georges Braque, painter (d. 1963)
   * May 16 - Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1954)
   * May 19 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
   * May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (d. 1949)
   * June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
   * August 25 - Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
   * October 5 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist
   * October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)
   * October 14 - Eamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland
     (d. 1975)
   * November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden
   * December 16 - Zolt‡n Kod‡ly, composer
   * Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure

Deaths

   * February 11 - Gustav Schmidt, composer
   * March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
   * April 3 - Jesse James, outlaw
   * April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
   * April 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist
   * July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady of the United States
   * Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect

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