1882 Calendar
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1882 Historical Event(s)
February 22, 1882
– The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
March 24, 1882
– Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
April 3, 1882
– American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
April 29, 1882
– The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
May 6, 1882
– The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
June 6, 1882
– More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
July 11, 1882
– The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
August 5, 1882
– The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
October 16, 1882
– The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
Who Were Born On 1882?
January 6, 1882
– Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
January 12, 1882
– Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
January 30, 1882
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 44th Governor of New York, and 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
February 1, 1882
– Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
March 14, 1882
– Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
April 20, 1882
– Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
June 9, 1882
– Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
July 4, 1882
– Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
August 16, 1882
– Christian Mortensen, Danish-born American supercentenarian (d. 1998)
October 29, 1882
– Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)