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Events from the year1886 in the United States.

• President:Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
• Vice President:vacant
• Chief Justice:Morrison Waite (Ohio)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky)
• Congress:49th

• February 6–9 –Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots inSeattle,Washington.
• March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20African Americans are killed inMississippi.
• April 24 – FatherAugustine Tolton, the firstRoman Catholic priest from the U.S. to identify himself publicly asAfrican American, is ordained inRome.
• May 1 – Ageneral strike begins, which escalates on May 4 into theHaymarket affair in Chicago and eventually wins theeight-hour day for workers.
• May 8 – Pharmacist Dr.John Stith Pemberton invents acarbonated beverage that will be named 'Coca-Cola'.
• May 17 –Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: TheU.S. Supreme Court rules thatcorporations have the same rights as living persons.
• May 29 – PharmacistJohn Pemberton begins to advertiseCoca-Cola (advertisement in theAtlanta Journal).
• May 31-June 1 – Conversion of all (most) railroads to standard gauge; seeTrack gauge in the United States
• June 2 – U.S. PresidentGrover Cleveland marriesFrances Folsom in theWhite House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
• June 9 – TheStoughton Musical Society's centennial is celebrated.
• July 23 –Steve Brodie is reported to have made a jump from theBrooklyn Bridge, a claim subsequently disputed.
• August 20 – A massivehurricane demolishes the town ofIndianola, Texas.
• August 31 – The 6.9–7.3 M_w Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximumMercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people are killed and damage is estimated at$5–6 million.
• September 4 –Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting,Apache leaderGeronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to GeneralNelson Miles atSkeleton Canyon inArizona.
• October 10 – The English style ofblack tie men's formal evening dress is introduced to the U.S. by James Brown Potter atTuxedo Park, New York, hence its usual American description as "tux(edo)".^[1]
• October 28 – TheStatue of Liberty inNew York Harbor is dedicated by U.S. PresidentGrover Cleveland.
• Undated – Arthur Hinds & Company, laterBarnes & Noble booksellers, is founded inNew York City.

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)

• October 23 -American Association'sSt. Louis Browns win the First (Unofficial)1886 World Series by defeating theNational League'sChicago White Stockings 4 games to 2. The final game is played atSportsman's Park inSt. Louis,Missouri

• January 3 –John G. Fletcher, poet and author (died1950)
• January 11 –Chester Conklin, comic film actor (died1971)
• January 28 –Sam McDaniel, African-American actor (died1962)
• February 27 –Hugo Black, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971 (died 1971)
• March 6
  • Jam Handy, swimmer and water polo player (d. 1983)
  • Nella Walker, actress and vaudevillian (d. 1971)
• March 7 –Jessie Coles Grayson, African American contralto and film actress (died1953)
• March 8 –Edward Calvin Kendall, biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 (died1972)
• March 9 –Robert L. Eichelberger, general (died1961)
• March 21 –Arthur Grover Rider, painter (died1975)
• March 24 –Edward Weston, photographer (died1958)
• April 2 –Reginald Barker, film director (died1945)
• April 3 –Dooley Wilson, African American drummer, singer and actor (died1953)
• April 8 –Margaret Ayer Barnes, playwright, novelist and short-story writer (died1967)
• April 26 –Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, African American blues singer (died1939)
• May 26 –Al Jolson, entertainer (died1950)
• June 2 –Grover Whalen, politician (died1962)
• June 3 –Benjamin McCandlish, Governor of Guam (died1975)
• June 6
  • Tyler Brooke, actor and singer (died1943)
  • William A. Glassford, admiral (died1958)
• June 27
  • Sally Crute, actress (died1971)
  • Carroll McComas, actress (d.1962)
• June 29 –Robert C. Giffen, admiral (d.1962)
• July 15 –Arthur L. Bristol, admiral (d.1942)
• July 16 –Frank Hastings Griffin, engineer (d.1974)
• September 11 –John H. Hester, general (d.1976)
• September 28 –Alice Hollister, silent film actress (d.1973)
• October 30 –Zoë Akins, dramatist (died1958)
• November 9
  • Edward Lindberg, Olympic athlete (died1978)
  • Ed Wynn, actor (died1966)
• December 5 –Rose Wilder Lane, journalist and libertarian (died1968)
• December 9 –Clarence Birdseye, founder of the modern frozen food industry (died1956)
• December 18 –Ty Cobb, baseball outfielder (died1961)
• December 19 –Charles M. Cooke, Jr., admiral (died1970)
• December 25 –Kid Ory, jazz trombonist and bandleader (died1973)

• January 13 –Thomas Wakeman, founder of the first Sioux Indian YMCA (born1846)
• January 22 –James T. Farley, U.S. Senator from California from 1879 to 1885. (born1829)
• January 26 –David Rice Atchison, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1844 to 1855 (born1807)
• February 2 –David Hunter, Union Army general (born1802)
• February 9 –Winfield Scott Hancock, Civil War Union general and political candidate (born1824)
• February 12 –Horatio Seymour, 18thgovernor of New York,Democratic Party nominee forPresident of the United States in thepresidential election of 1868 (born1810)
• March 8 –John Franklin Miller, U.S. Senator from California from 1881 to 1886 (born1831)
• March 9 –Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (born1825)
• March 13 –Austin Flint, co-founder ofBuffalo Medical College and president of the American Medical Association (born1812)
• April 3 –Arthur Pember, journalist, first president ofThe Football Association (born1835 in the United Kingdom)
• April 27 –H. H. Richardson, architect (born1838)
• May 15 –Emily Dickinson, poet (born1830)
• May 21 –Stephen Pearl Andrews, anarchist and proponent ofpantarchy (born 1812)
• June 26 –David Davis, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1877 to 1883 (born1815)
• July 16 –Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (born1821)
• August 4 –Samuel J. Tilden, 25th Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876 and 1876 Democratic presidential candidate (born1814)
• August 5 –Robert Allen, Union army brigadier general (born1811)
• August 10 –John W. Stevenson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1871 to 1877 (born 1812)
• August 30 –Ferris Jacobs, Jr., politician (born1836)
• October 10 –David Levy Yulee, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1851 and from 1855 to 1861 (born1810)
• November 18 –Chester A. Arthur, 21stpresident of the United States from 1881 to 1885, 20thvice president of the United States from March to September 1881 (born1829)
• November 21 –Charles Francis Adams Sr.,United States Minister to the United Kingdom, son ofJohn Quincy Adams (born1807)
• December 26 –John A. Logan, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1871 to 1877 (born1826)

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