1888
1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). In Germany , 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors .
Events
January 3 - 91cm telescope first used at Lick Observatory
January 12 ? Blizzards in Dakota and Montana , Minnesota , Nebraska and Texas - 235 dead, many of which were children on their way home from school
January 24 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon .
January 27 - In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.
March 11 - The "Great Blizzard of '88 " begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States , shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
March 22 - The Football League is formed
April 11 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
May 13 - Brazil abolishes slavery .
June 19 - In Chicago Republican Convention opens at Auditorium Building . General Benjamin Harrison & Levi Morton will win the nominations.
August 7 - The body of Martha Tabram was found, a possible murder victim of Jack the Ripper
August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper 's victims.
September 4 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak , and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
September 8 - In London , the body of Annie Chapman is found. She is generally considered the second victim of Jack the Ripper .
September 8 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.
September 30 - In London , the bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper 's third and fourth victim respectively.
October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888 : Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison .
November 9 - In London the body of Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is typically considered the fifth and last of Jack the Ripper 's victims. A number of similar murders actually follow, but police attribute them to copycat killers.
Births
January-March
January 1 - Victor Goldschmidt , Swiss geochemist (d. 1947 )
January 8 - Matt Moore , Irish-born actor (d. 1960 )
January 24 - Vicki Baum , Austrian writer (d. 1960 )
January 24 - Ernst Heinkel , German aircraft designer (d. 1958 )
February 2 - Frederick Lane , Australian swimmer (d. 1969 )
February 17 - Otto Stern , German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1969 )
February 19 - José Eustasio Rivera , Colombian writer (d. 1928 )
February 20 - Georges Bernanos , French writer (d. 1948 )
February 25 - John Foster Dulles , United States Secretary of State (d. 1959 )
February 27 - Lotte Lehmann , German singer (d. 1976 )
March 4 - Knute Rockne , American football player and coach (d. 1931 )
March 10 - Barry Fitzgerald , Irish actor (d. 1966 )
March 12 - Vaslav Nijinsky , Ukrainian ballet dancer (d. 1950 )
March 17 - Frank Buck , big game hunter (d. 1950 )
March 26 - Elsa Brändström , Russian nurse (d. 1948 )
April-June
April 4 - Tris Speaker , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1958 )
April 6 - Hans Richter , German filmmaker
April 18 - Duffy Lewis , Major League Baseball player (d. 1979 )
April 26 - Anita Loos , American writer (d. 1981 )
April 27 - Florence La Badie , Canadian actress (d. 1917 )
May 10 - Max Steiner , Austrian-American composer (d. 1971 )
May 11 - Irving Berlin , American composer (d. 1989 )
May 17 - Tich Freeman , English cricketer (d. 1965 )
May 23 - Zack Wheat , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1972 )
May 25 - Miles Malleson , English actor (d. 1969 )
May 27 - Louis Durey , French composer (d. 1979 )
June 3 - Tom Brown , American jazz musician (d. 1958 )
June 6 - Pete Wendling , American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. 1974 )
June 9 - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite , Australian illustrator (d. 1960 )
June 13 - Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese writer (d. 1935 )
June 24 - Gerrit Rietveld , Dutch architect (d. 1964 )
July-October
July 10 - Giorgio Chirico , Italian painter (d. 1978 )
July 17 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Israeli writer (d. 1970 )
July 23 - Raymond Chandler , American novelist (d. 1959 )
August 13 - John Logie Baird , Scottish inventor, first demonstrated the television (d. 1946 )
August 16 - Armand J. Piron , American jazz musician (d. 1943 )
September 5 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , President of India (d. 1975 )
September 6 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. , American politician and father of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1969 )
September 12 - Maurice Chevalier , French singer and actor (d. 1972 )
September 16 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää , Finnish writer (d. 1964 )
September 26 - T. S. Eliot , American-born poet (d. 1965 )
September 26 - J. Frank Dobie , American folklorist and journalist (d. 1964 )
October 7 - Henry A. Wallace , Vice President of the United States (d. 1965 )
October 9 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , Russian politician (d. 1938 )
October 16 - Eugene O'Neill , American dramatist (d. 1953 )
November-December
Deaths
January 19 - Anton de Bary , German biologist
January 29 - Edward Lear , British artist and writer
February 3 - Henry Maine , British jurist
March 6 - Louisa May Alcott , American novelist
March 9 - German Emperor Wilhelm I
March 12 - Henry Bergh , founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
April 15 - Matthew Arnold , English poet (b. 1822 )
April 15 - Father Damien , Belgian priest
June 15 - German Emperor Friedrich III
August 9 - Charles Cros , French poet
August 23 - Philip Henry Gosse , British scientist
October 16 - John Wentworth , mayor of Chicago , United States
December 31 - Samson Raphael Hirsch , rabbi (b. 1808 )
