1888

1888 is called the Year of Three Emperors in Germany.

Events

   * January 3 - 91cm telescope first used at Lick Observatory
   * January 24 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.
   * January 27 - In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is
     founded.
   * 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 English Football League is formed
   * May 13 - Brazil abolishes slavery.
   * August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is 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 8 - In London, the body of Annie Chapman is found. She is
     considered the second victim of Jack The Ripper.
   * 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.
   * October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general
     public.
   * 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 actualy follow but police attributes them to copycat
     killers.

   * Alexander Graham Bell founds the National Geographic Society.
   * Brazil abolishes slavery
   * November - Benjamin Harrison defeats Grover Cleveland in the U.S.
     presidential election
   * George Eastman invents celluloid roll film, markets Kodak, first simple
     to use mass produced camera.
   * Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner

Births

   * January 24 - Vicki Baum, writer (+ 1960)
   * January 24 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (+ 1958)
   * February 2 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer
   * February 17 - Otto Stern, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     Physics 1943 (+ 1969)
   * February 25 - John Foster Duller, United States Secretary of State (+
     1959)
   * February 27 - Lotte Lehmann, singer (+ 1976)
   * March 4 - Knute Kenneth Rockne, American football player
   * March 12 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer
   * March 17 - Frank Buck, "big game" hunter (+ 1950)
   * March 26 - Elsa BrŠndstršm, "The Angel of Siberia"
   * April 4 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1958)
   * April 6 - Hans Richter, German filmmaker
   * April 26 - Anita Loos, writer (+ 1981)
   * April 27 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress (+ 1917)
   * May 10 - Max Steiner, composer (+ 1971)
   * May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (+ 1989)
   * May 23 - Zack Wheat, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1972)
   * May 25 - Miles Malleson, actor (+ 1969)
   * May 27 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six (+ 1979)
   * May 28 - Jim Thorpe, American sportsman
   * June 24 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect
   * July 10 - Giorgio Chirico, painter (+ 1978)
   * August 13 - John Logie Baird, first demonstrated the television
   * September 26 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
   * October 7 - Henry A. Wallace, vice president of the United States
   * October 9 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician
   * October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist
   * November 23 - Harpo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (+ 1964)
   * December 4 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
   * December 28 - F.W. Murnau, German director
   * March 10 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (+ 1966)
   * Irving Berlin, American composer
   * Raymond Chandler, American novelist
   * Maurice Chevalier, French actor
   * Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator
   * Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer
   * Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher
   * Frans Eemil SillanpŠŠ, Finnish writer
   * Max Steiner, Austrian film maker
   * Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist

Deaths

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

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