1888 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1888?
- January 27, 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- March 11, 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- March 20, 1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- April 3, 1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- June 3, 1888 – The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- June 5, 1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
- June 15, 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
- July 15, 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- August 31, 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
- September 4, 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
- September 6, 1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
- September 8, 1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
- September 30, 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
- October 9, 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- October 14, 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
- October 17, 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
- November 9, 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
- December 9, 1888 – Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
- December 18, 1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
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