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1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII ) was aleap year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar , the 1888th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 88th year of the19th century , and the 9th year of the1880s decade. As of the start of 1888, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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March 11 :Great Blizzard of 1888 .March 8 – The Agriculture College of Utah (laterUtah State University ) is founded inLogan, Utah .March 9 March 11 – TheGreat Blizzard of 1888 begins along theEast Coast of the United States , shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.March 13 –Ritter Island eruption and tsunami : The summit of Ritter Island off the coast of New Guinea collapses, resulting in atsunami and the deaths of an estimated 500 to 3,500 people.[ 1] March 13 – TheDe Beers diamond mining conglomerate is founded byCecil Rhodes inKimberley, Northern Cape (South Africa).[ 2] March 15 – TheSikkim Expedition , a British military expedition to expel the Tibetans from northernSikkim , begins.March 16 – The foundation stone for a newNational Library of Greece is laid inAthens .March 20 – The firstRomani language operetta premieres in Moscow, Russia.March 23 – A meeting called byWilliam McGregor to discuss establishment ofThe Football League is held in London.March 25 – Opening of an internationalCongress for Women's Rights organized bySusan B. Anthony in Washington, D.C., leading to formation of theInternational Council of Women , a key event in the international women's movement.August 31 : Victim found fromJack the Ripper ?July 2 –27 –London matchgirls strike of 1888 : About 200 workers, mainly teenaged girls, strike following the dismissal of three colleagues from theBryant and May match factory, precipitated by an article on their working conditions published onJune 23 by campaigning journalistAnnie Besant , and the workers unionise on July 27.[ 7] July 11 – Over 200 miners are killed in an accident at a diamond mine inKimberley, Northern Cape (South Africa).[ 8] July 15 –Eruption of Mount Bandai : Anexplosive eruption of thestratovolcano Mount Bandai in theFukushima Prefecture of Japan results inpyroclastic flows and the deaths of at least 477 people (according to Japanese government sources).[ 9] [ 10] July 25 –Frank Edward McGurrin , a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person usingtouch typing at this time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used in modern times.August 1 –Carl Benz is issued with the world's firstdriving licence by theGrand Duchy of Baden .August 5 –Bertha Benz arrives inPforzheim having driven 40 miles (64 km) fromMannheim in a car manufactured by her husbandCarl Benz , thus completing the first "long-distance" drive in the history of theautomobile .August 7 –Whitechapel murders : The body of Londonprostitute Martha Tabram is found, a possible victim ofJack the Ripper .[ 11] August 9 August 10 – DrFriedrich Hermann Wölfert ’s motorised airship successfully completes the world’s first engine-driven flight, fromCannstatt toKornwestheim in Germany.[ 13] August 13 – TheLocal Government Act , effective from1889 , establishescounty councils andcounty borough councils inEngland and Wales , redraws some county boundaries, and gives women the vote in local elections. It also declares that "bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, and other similar machines" be carriages within the meaning of the Highway Acts (which remains the case), and requires that they give audible warning when overtaking "any cart or carriage, or any horse, mule, or other beast of burden, or any foot passenger", a rule abolished in1930 .August 20 – A mutiny atDufile ,Equatoria , results in the imprisonment of theEmin Pasha .August 22 – Earliest evidence of a death and injury by a meteorite, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.[ 14] August 24 –The firsttrams in Tallinn (Reval ),horsecars , begin operation.August 31 –Whitechapel murders : The mutilated body of London prostituteMary Ann Nichols is found; she is considered the first victim ofJack the Ripper .October 1 –Sofia University officially opens, becoming the first university in liberated Bulgaria.October 2 – TheWhitehall Mystery : Dismembered remains of a woman's body are discovered at three central London locations, one being the construction site of the police headquarters atNew Scotland Yard .October 9 – TheWashington Monument officially opens to the general public in Washington, D.C.October 9 :Washington Monument opens.October 14 October 25 –St Cuthbert's Society at theUniversity of Durham in England is founded, after a general meeting chaired by the ReverendHastings Rashdall .October 30 – TheRudd Concession , a writtenconcession for exclusive mining rights inMatabeleland ,Mashonaland and adjoining territories, is granted by KingLobengula of Matabeleland toCharles Rudd ,James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, who are acting on behalf of South African-based politician and businessmanCecil Rhodes , providing a basis for white settlement ofRhodesia .Carlos Quintanilla Otto Stern Lotte Lehmann January 1 –Victor Goldschmidt , Swiss geochemist (d.1947 )January 8 –Matt Moore , Irish-born American actor (d.1960 )January 18 –Thomas Sopwith ,English aviation pioneer, yachtsman (d.1989 )January 19 –Millard Harmon , American general (d.1945 )January 20 –Lead Belly , Americanfolk ,blues singer (d.1949 )January 22 –Carlos Quintanilla , 37thPresident of Bolivia (d.1964 )January 23 –Aritomo Gotō , Japanese admiral (d.1942 )January 24 January 29 –Wellington Koo , Chinese statesman (d.1985 )February 2 –Frederick Lane , Australian swimmer (d.1969 )February 5 –Bruce Fraser , British admiral (d.1981 )February 8 –Edith Evans , British actress (d.1976 )February 11 –John Warren Davis , American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (d.1980 )[ 19] February 13 –Georgios Papandreou , Prime Minister of Greece (d.1968 )February 14 –Chandrashekhar Agashe , Indian industrialist (d.1956 )[ 20] February 17 –Otto Stern , German physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1969 )February 19 February 20 –Georges Bernanos , French writer (d.1948 )February 25 –John Foster Dulles ,United States Secretary of State (d.1959 )February 27 Ilo Wallace March 4 –Knute Rockne , American football player, coach (d.1931 )March 5 –Peg Leg Howell , American country blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d.1966 )March 7 –William L. Laurence , American journalist (d.1977 )March 10 March 17 –Paul Ramadier , 63rd Prime Minister of France (d.1961 )March 18 –Jerry Dawson , English footballer, Burnley and national team (d.1970 )March 26 –Elsa Brändström , Swedish nurse (d.1948 )March 29 –Enea Bossi Sr. , Italian-born American aerospace engineer, aviation pioneer (d.1963 )March 30 –Anna Q. Nilsson , Swedish-American silent film star (d.1974 )April 1 –Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr. , American general (d.1969 )April 2 – SirNeville Cardus , British cricket, music writer (d.1975 )April 3 –Thomas C. Kinkaid , American admiral (d.1972 )April 4 –Tris Speaker , American professional baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d.1958 )April 6 April 12 –Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola , 28th president of Ecuador (d.1952 )April 18 –Duffy Lewis , AmericanMajor League Baseball player (d.1979 )April 26 –Anita Loos , American writer (d.1981 )April 27 –Florence La Badie , Canadian actress (d.1917 )Irving Berlin David Dougal Williams May 8 –Maurice Boyau , French World War I fighter ace (d.1918 )May 9 –Francesco Baracca , Italian World War I fighter ace (d.1918 )May 10 –Max Steiner , Austrian-American composer (d.1971 )May 11 May 13 –Inge Lehmann , Danish seismologist, geophysicist (d.1993 )May 17 –Tich Freeman , English cricketer (d.1965 )May 18 –William Hood Simpson , American general (d.1980 )May 23 –Zack Wheat , AmericanBaseball Hall of Famer (d.1972 )May 25 –Miles Malleson , English actor (d.1969 )May 26 –Anne Azgapetian , Russian Red Cross worker (d.1973 )May 28 –Kaarel Eenpalu , 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d.1942 )May 31 –Jack Holt , American actor (d.1951 )June –David Dougal Williams , British painter and art teacher (d.1944 ) June 13 –Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese writer (d.1935 )June 17 –Heinz Guderian , German general (d.1954 )June 22 June 24 –Gerrit Rietveld , Dutch architect (d.1964 )June 27 –Antoinette Perry , American stage director for whom theTony Award is named (d.1946 )June 29 –Squizzy Taylor , Australian underworld figure (d.1927 )Herbert Spencer Gasser Frits Zernike July 5 –Herbert Spencer Gasser , American physiologist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1963 )July 10 –Giorgio de Chirico , Italian painter (d.1978 )July 16 July 17 –Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Israeli writer,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1970 )July 22 –Selman Waksman , Ukrainian-born American biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1973 )July 23 –Raymond Chandler , American-born novelist (d.1959 )July 25 –Johannes Spieß, German U-boat commander during World War I (d. 1972)[ 22] August 4 –Taher Saifuddin , Indian Bohra spiritual leader (d.1965 )August 6 –Heinrich Schlusnus , German baritone (d.1952 )August 9 August 13 –John Logie Baird , Scottish inventor (d.1946 )Johannes Spieß August 16 –T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer and academic (d.1935 )August 17 –Monty Woolley , American actor (d.1963 )August 20 –Tôn Đức Thắng , 2nd president of Vietnam (d.1980 )August 25 –Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi , Pakistani scholar, politician (d.1963 )August 28 –Evadne Price , Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (d.1985 )August 29 –Gunichi Mikawa , Japanese admiral (d.1981 )Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Maurice Chevalier T. S. Eliot September 5 –Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , Indian philosopher, politician and 2ndPresident of India (d.1975 )September 6 September 8 –Ida McNeil , American broadcaster and designer of theflag of South Dakota (d.1974 )[ 23] September 12 –Maurice Chevalier , French singer and actor (d.1972 )September 16 September 17 –Michiyo Tsujimura , Japanese agricultural scientist (d.1969 )[ 24] September 18 –Grey Owl , British conservationist, impostor, writer (d.1938 )September 20 –John Painter , American supercentenarian,world's oldest man between 1999 and 2001 (d.2001 )September 26 September 28 –Seán Lester , Irish diplomat (d.1959 )October 4 –Friedrich Olbricht , German general (d.1944 )October 6 –Roland Garros , French pilot (killed in action1918 )October 7 October 8 –Ernst Kretschmer , German psychiatrist (d.1964 )October 9 –Nikolai Bukharin , Russian Bolshevik and Soviet politician (d.1938 )October 14 –Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand fiction writer (d.1923 )October 16 October 17 –Paul Bernays , Swiss mathematician (d.1977 )October 24 –Carlo Bergamini , Italian admiral (d.1943 )October 25 –Lester Cuneo , American actor (d.1925 )October 30 –Alan Goodrich Kirk , American admiral (d.1963 )October 31 –Hubert Wilkins , Australian explorer of the Arctic (d.1958 )C. V. Raman Harpo Marx Gladys Cooper F. W. Murnau November 1 –Viliami Tungī Mailefihi , 7th Premier of Tonga (d.1941 )November 7 November 9 –Jean Monnet , French political economist, diplomat and afounding father of the European Union (d.1979 )November 15 November 23 –Harpo Marx , American comedian (d.1964 )November 24 November 29 –Oswald Rayner , BritishMI6 agent (d.1961 )November 30 –Ralph Hartley , American electronics researcher, inventor (d.1970 )December 3 –Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and Israel (d.1959 )December 4 December 6 –Will Hay , British actor, comedian (d.1949 )December 7 December 16 –Alphonse Juin , French general,Marshal of France (d.1967 )December 18 December 19 –Fritz Reiner , Hungarian conductor (d.1963 )December 22 –Theodore Stark Wilkinson , American admiral (d.1946 )December 25 –Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez , American painter (d.1972 )December 28 –F. W. Murnau , German film director (d.1931 )Wilhelm I January 7 –Golam Ali Chowdhury , Bengali landlord and philanthropist (b.1824 )[ 27] January 19 –Anton de Bary , German biologist (b.1831 )January 20 –William Pitt Ballinger , Texas lawyer, southern statesman (b.1825 )January 29 –Edward Lear , British artist, writer (b.1812 )January 31 –John Bosco , Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of theSalesian Society (b.1815 )February 3 –Sir Henry Maine , British jurist (b.1822 )February 5 –Anton Mauve , Dutch painter (b.1838 )February 9 –Augusto Riboty , Italian admiral and politician (b.1816 )[ 28] February 22 –Anna Kingsford , British women's rights activist (b.1846 )February 24 –Seth Kinman , American hunter, settler (b.1815 )March 6 March 9 –William I, German Emperor , King of Prussia (b.1797 )March 12 –Henry Bergh , founder of theAmerican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (b.1813 )March 16 –Hippolyte Carnot , French statesman (b.1801 )March 23 –Morrison Waite ,Chief Justice of the United States (b.1816 )March 27 –Francesco Faà di Bruno , Italian mathematician (b.1825 )March 29 –Charles-Valentin Alkan , French composer, pianist (b.1813 )Frederick Miller Ascanio Sobrero Frederick III April 4 –Emma Elizabeth Smith ,Whitechapel Murders victim (b.1843 )April 14 –Emil Czyrniański , Polish chemist (b.1824 )April 15 –Matthew Arnold , English poet (b.1822 )April 17 –Ephraim George Squier , American archaeologist, newspaper editor (b.1821 )April 19 –Thomas Russell Crampton , English engineer (b.1816 )May 6 –Abraham Joseph Ash , American rabbi (b. c. 1813)[ 30] May 11 –Frederick Miller , German-born American brewer and businessman (b.1824 )May 15 –Edwin Hamilton Davis , American archaeologist, physician (b.1811 )May 19 –Julius Rockwell , United States politician (b.1805 )May 26 –Ascanio Sobrero , Italian chemist (b.1812 )June 7 –Edmond Le Bœuf , French general,Marshal of France (b.1809 )June 8 –Sir Duncan Cameron , British army general (b.1808 )June 15 –Frederick III, German Emperor , King of Prussia (b.1831 )June 23 –Edmund Gurney , British psychologist (b.1847 )Paul Langerhans John Pemberton July 1 –Maiden of Ludmir , Jewish religious leader (b.1805 )July 4 –Theodor Storm , German writer (b.1817 )July 9 –Jan Brand , 4th president of theOrange Free State (b.1823 )July 20 –Paul Langerhans , German pathologist, biologist (b.1847 )August 5 –Philip Sheridan , American general (b.1831 )August 7 –August 9 –Charles Cros , French poet (b.1842 )August 16 –John Pemberton , American pharmacist, founder ofCoca-Cola (b.1831 )August 20 –Henry Richard , Welsh peace campaigner (b.1812 )August 23 –Philip Henry Gosse , British scientist (b.1810 )August 24 –Rudolf Clausius , German physicist, contributor tothermodynamics (b.1822 )August 31 –Mary Ann Nichols , first confirmed victim ofJack the Ripper (b.1845 )September 6 –John Lester Wallack , American theater impresario (b.1820 )September 8 –Annie Chapman , victim ofJack the Ripper (b.1841 )September 11 –Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , Argentine politician, writer, and father of education (b.1811 )September 23 –François Achille Bazaine , French general (b.1811 )September 24 –Karl von Prantl , German philosopher (b.1820 )September 30 Carl Zeiss Caroline Howard Gilman October 16 October 26 –William Thomas Hamilton , American politician (b.1820 )November 1 –Nikolay Przhevalsky , Russian explorer (b.1839 )November 9 –Mary Jane Kelly , fifth and final confirmed victim ofJack the Ripper (b.1863 )November 10 –George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan , British army officer and aristocrat (b.1800 )November 11 –Pedro Ñancúpel , Chilean pirate active in thefjords and channels of Patagonia . 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