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1886 Calendar

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•  January 18, 1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
•  March 27, 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
•  April 8, 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
•  May 8, 1886 – Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.
•  June 10, 1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
•  June 13, 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
•  July 3, 1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
•  September 4, 1886 – Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
•  October 28, 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
•  October 29, 1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

•  April 26, 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
•  July 27, 1886 – Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
•  July 31, 1886 – Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
•  August 15, 1886 – Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (d. 1974)
•  September 10, 1886 – Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
•  October 6, 1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
•  November 12, 1886 – Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
•  November 18, 1886 – Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian Communist politician (d. 1967)
•  December 2, 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)