1888

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Events

• 3 January - One telescope from 91 cm it comes used for before the time to Lick Observatory
• - Jacob L. Wortman it patents the tape of the typewriter.
• - To Washington DC it comes founded National Geographic Society.
• - "Large It torments of the 88"it begins along the east coast of United States, closing the business activities them and killing more than 400 persons.
• - It is born Football League.
• - It comes inaugurated Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.
• - Brasi they it abolishes slavery.
• - To the republican convention is opened. The General Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton they will gain the nomination.
• 7 August - It comes found the body of Martha Tabram, one possible victim of Jack the Squartatore.
• - It comes assassinated Mary Ann Nichols. The Squartatore is probably the first victim of Jack.
• 4 september - George Eastman it records the brand Kodak, and it receives a licence for its camera and also one for rullino.
• 8 september - To it comes found the body of Annie Chapman. it comes generally considered the second victim of Jack the Squartatore.
• 8 september - In they come plays the first six encounter to you of Football League.
• - To they come finds the bodies to you of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. Thought the third and quarter victim of Jack the Squartatore.
• 9 October - Monument to Washington it comes officially opened the public.
• 6 November - Presidential elections USA of 1888: The president outgoing democratic Grover Cleveland it gains the popular ballot, but it loses in i electoral colleges against the republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
• 9 November - To it comes found the body of Mary Jane Kelly. It comes the considered fifth and last victim of Jack the Squartatore. They will follow as many homicides, but the police attributes them to imitatori.

• Grammofono it comes patented give Emile Berliner.
• Sarawak and Borneo protettorati become British.
• Susan B. Anthony it organizes a conference for the rights of the women to Washington DC.
• Before railroad in China.

Been born

• 8 January - Matt Moore, actor ( 1960)
• - Vicki Baum, writer ( 1960)
• - Ernst Heinkel, aeronautical planner ( 1958)
• 2 February - Frederick Wools, Australian swimmer ( 1969)
• - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
• - Eight Stern, physicist, 1943 († 1969)
• - José Eustasio Rivera, Columbian writer ( 1928)
• - John Foster Dulles, statesman American ( 1959)
• - Lehmann Fights, singer ( 1976)
• - Barry Fitzgerald, actor ( 1966)
• - Vaslav Nijinsky, dancer ucraino ( 1950)
• - Elsa Brändström, "the Angel of the Siberia" ( 1948)
• 6 you open them - Hans Richter, German director
• - Anita Loos, scrittrice ( 1981)
• - Florence The Abbeys, attrice ( 1917)
• - Antonio Sant' Elia, Italian architect ( 1916)
• - Max Steiner, composer ( 1971)
• - Irving Berlin, American composer ( 1989)
• - Miles Malleson, actor ( 1969)
• - Louis Durey, composer ( 1979)
• 3 june - Tom Brown, jazzista ( 1958)
• 6 june - Pete Wendling, composer, American pianista
• 9 june - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustratore
• - Arthur Grimble, British writer ( 1956)
• - Fernando Pessoa, portuguese writer
• - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect
• - George De Chirico, Italian painter ( 1978)
• - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer (v 1970)
• - Raymond Chandler, writer ( 1959)
• - Sour Giacomo, economist and political man ( 1969)
• - , it executed the first demonstration of the television
• - Thomas Edward Lawrence, writer, soldier ( 1935)
• - Armand J. Piron, jazzista ( 1943)
• 5 september - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher
• 6 september - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician
• - Maurice Chevalier, French actor
• - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Prize Nobel for the literature († 1964)
• - T. S. Eliot, poet anglo-American
• - J. Frank Dobie, American journalist
• 7 October - Henry To. Wallace, American politician
• 9 October - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician
• - Eugene O' Neill, American dramatist
• - Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist
• - Harpo Marx, American comedian (#$$dagger>; 1964)
• - Francisco Canaro, composer of tango ( 1964)
• - Ralph Hartley, electronic and inventive investigator
• 4 December - King Alexander of Yugoslavia
• - Fritz Reiner, orchestra director Hungarian ( 1963)
• - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German director ( 1931)

Died

• - Anton de Bary, German biologist
• - Edward Lear, artist and British writer
• - Saint Giovanni Forest, clergyman and Italian saint
• 3 February - Henry Maine, British giurista
• 6 March - Louisa May Alcott, American scrittrice
• 9 March - Emperor Guglielmo of Germany
• - Henry Bergh, founder ofAmerican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• - Matthew Arnold, English poet (n. )
• - Damien Father, Belgian clergyman
• - Emperor Federico III of Germany
• 9 August - Charles Cros, French poet
• - Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist
• - Samson Raphael Hirsch, rabbi (n. )