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Events on the year of 1884 in history

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04 Jan 1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
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04 Jan 1884 The Fabian Society is founded in London, England, United Kingdom.
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08 Jan 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
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18 Jan 1884 Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
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18 Jan 1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
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19 Jan 1884 Jules Massenet's opera "Manon" premieres in Paris
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26 Jan 1884 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
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01 Feb 1884 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
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01 Feb 1884 The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
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07 Feb 1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
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18 Feb 1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
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18 Feb 1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
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19 Feb 1884 Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky and In kill 800 people
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19 Feb 1884 More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
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19 Feb 1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky & Indiana kill 800 people
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26 Feb 1884 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
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12 Mar 1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
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13 Mar 1884 The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
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13 Mar 1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
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13 Mar 1884 US adopts Standard Time
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17 Mar 1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California
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27 Mar 1884 A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
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27 Mar 1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-New York
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02 Apr 1884 London prison for debtors closed
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10 Apr 1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
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20 Apr 1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
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20 Apr 1884 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
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20 Apr 1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
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21 Apr 1884 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
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22 Apr 1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bicycle trip around the world (2 years 9 months)
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22 Apr 1884 US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
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24 Apr 1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta GA)
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01 May 1884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
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01 May 1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
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01 May 1884 Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
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01 May 1884 Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
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13 May 1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is founded
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14 May 1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US
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16 May 1884 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40
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17 May 1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
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19 May 1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
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20 May 1884 Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
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22 May 1884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
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23 May 1884 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39
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24 May 1884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party form People's Party in the US
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26 May 1884 Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 and 7-3 vs. England XI in 4 hours
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29 May 1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
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31 May 1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
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31 May 1884 The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria
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03 Jun 1884 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party National convention chair
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04 Jun 1884 18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42
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05 Jun 1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
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16 Jun 1884 On Coney Island, the 1st roller coaster begins operating
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16 Jun 1884 The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
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24 Jun 1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected Chairman of the Republican Convention
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27 Jun 1884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #237 Coelestina
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03 Jul 1884 Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
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04 Jul 1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
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04 Jul 1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
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05 Jul 1884 German Consul-General Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
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05 Jul 1884 US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
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05 Jul 1884 Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
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02 Aug 1884 Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
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05 Aug 1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
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07 Aug 1884 Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
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28 Aug 1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
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28 Aug 1884 Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
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30 Aug 1884 Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
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10 Sep 1884 Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
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20 Sep 1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and VP
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20 Sep 1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
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26 Sep 1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
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06 Oct 1884 Naval War College forms in Newport, Rhode Island
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06 Oct 1884 The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
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13 Oct 1884 Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
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14 Oct 1884 The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
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14 Oct 1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
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22 Oct 1884 General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
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22 Oct 1884 Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series October 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
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23 Oct 1884 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats New York Mets (AA) 6-0
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25 Oct 1884 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps New York Mets (AA) in 3
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27 Oct 1884 Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in New York City
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01 Nov 1884 The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
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04 Nov 1884 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st Presidential term
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06 Nov 1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
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06 Nov 1884 Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
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15 Nov 1884 Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin
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17 Nov 1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
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22 Nov 1884 T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
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25 Nov 1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
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06 Dec 1884 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Washington, DC
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06 Dec 1884 The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
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09 Dec 1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
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10 Dec 1884 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
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12 Dec 1884 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
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16 Dec 1884 Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
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19 Dec 1884 Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
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24 Dec 1884 Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
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27 Dec 1884 Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State
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30 Dec 1884 Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
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