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1888 Historical Event(s)
January 3, 1888
– The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
June 3, 1888
– The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
August 5, 1888
– Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
August 14, 1888
– An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London.
September 6, 1888
– Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
September 8, 1888
– In England the first six Football League matches are played.
October 14, 1888
– Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
October 17, 1888
– Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
December 18, 1888
– Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
Who Were Born On 1888?
January 29, 1888
– Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
April 4, 1888
– Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975)
June 27, 1888
– Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
July 14, 1888
– Scipio Slataper, Italian writer and essayist (d. 1915)
September 5, 1888
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
October 7, 1888
– Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
October 14, 1888
– Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
December 3, 1888
– Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (d. 1959)
December 16, 1888
– King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
December 22, 1888
– J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972)