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Events on the year of 1888 in history

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03 Jan 1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
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03 Jan 1888 The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
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05 Jan 1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established
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07 Jan 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG)
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13 Jan 1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)
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27 Jan 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
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27 Jan 1888 National Geographic Society organizes (Washington DC)
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30 Jan 1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for New South Wales against Victoria
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22 Feb 1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
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24 Feb 1888 Louisville KY becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot
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28 Feb 1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
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28 Feb 1888 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
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10 Mar 1888 1st performance of C
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10 Mar 1888 Heavyweight Boxing champion John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
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11 Mar 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
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11 Mar 1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US
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12 Mar 1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in northeast US (400 die)
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13 Mar 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
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14 Mar 1888 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
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14 Mar 1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")
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15 Mar 1888 Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
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20 Mar 1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
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20 Mar 1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
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21 Mar 1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London
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22 Mar 1888 English Football League established
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23 Mar 1888 In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
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25 Mar 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
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01 Apr 1888 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
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03 Apr 1888 The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
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06 Apr 1888 Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
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07 Apr 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
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11 Apr 1888 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
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16 Apr 1888 Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike
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20 Apr 1888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
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24 Apr 1888 Eastman Kodak forms
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29 Apr 1888 Old Kavallison, Congo Stanley meet Emin Pasha
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30 Apr 1888 Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi India
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04 May 1888 Italy and Spain sign military covenant
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07 May 1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
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11 May 1888 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49
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12 May 1888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
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13 May 1888 DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"
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13 May 1888 With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
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13 May 1888 Brazil abolishes slavery
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13 May 1888 DeWolf Hopper 1st recited "Casey at the Bat"
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13 May 1888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Aur
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14 May 1888 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38
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16 May 1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
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16 May 1888 Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
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16 May 1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver British Columbia
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22 May 1888 Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
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01 Jun 1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
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03 Jun 1888 "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
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03 Jun 1888 The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
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05 Jun 1888 Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for President
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05 Jun 1888 The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
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13 Jun 1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor
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15 Jun 1888 Wilhelm II becomes Emperor of Germany
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15 Jun 1888 Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
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20 Jun 1888 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas
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23 Jun 1888 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for President
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25 Jun 1888 Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison
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29 Jun 1888 George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
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04 Jul 1888 1st organized rodeo competition held in Prescott, Arizona
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11 Jul 1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
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15 Jul 1888 The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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15 Jul 1888 Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
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23 Jul 1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
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27 Jul 1888 Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
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05 Aug 1888 Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
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07 Aug 1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door
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10 Aug 1888 New York Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
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11 Aug 1888 California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
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12 Aug 1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
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14 Aug 1888 An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
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19 Aug 1888 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
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21 Aug 1888 William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine
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25 Aug 1888 8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
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25 Aug 1888 Henry Slocum wins US Lawn Tennis Assn singles title
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30 Aug 1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
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31 Aug 1888 Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
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01 Sep 1888 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
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03 Sep 1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights
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03 Sep 1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British
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04 Sep 1888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers "Kodak"
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04 Sep 1888 George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
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06 Sep 1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season. This feat has since been accomplished by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
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07 Sep 1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator
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08 Sep 1888 In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.
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08 Sep 1888 In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
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08 Sep 1888 In England the first six Football League matches are played.
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12 Sep 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG)
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12 Sep 1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Greek Interpreter" (BG)
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18 Sep 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG)
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18 Sep 1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Sign of Four" (BG)
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22 Sep 1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
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25 Sep 1888 Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
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25 Sep 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG)
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25 Sep 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG)
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30 Sep 1888 "Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes
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30 Sep 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
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01 Oct 1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
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09 Oct 1888 Washington Monument opens for public admittance
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09 Oct 1888 The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
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10 Oct 1888 Teetotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
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14 Oct 1888 Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
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15 Oct 1888 The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
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17 Oct 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
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19 Oct 1888 Moshav Gederah is attacked by the Arabs
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20 Oct 1888 Chicago and All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, New Zealand
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21 Oct 1888 Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
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23 Oct 1888 Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
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29 Oct 1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
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29 Oct 1888 The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
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30 Oct 1888 In London, Jack the Ripper murders his last victim
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30 Oct 1888 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
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30 Oct 1888 Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
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30 Oct 1888 1st ballpoint pen patented
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31 Oct 1888 John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire
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03 Nov 1888 Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
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03 Nov 1888 In London, Jack the Ripper murdered his last victim
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06 Nov 1888 Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
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14 Nov 1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
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14 Nov 1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
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20 Nov 1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
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09 Dec 1888 Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
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11 Dec 1888 French Panama Canal company fails
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11 Dec 1888 French Panam
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18 Dec 1888 Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
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19 Dec 1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
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22 Dec 1888 Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
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23 Dec 1888 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
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25 Dec 1888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
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30 Dec 1888 Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star
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