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1888 Calendar

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•  January 27, 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
•  March 11, 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
•  April 6, 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
•  June 5, 1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
•  June 29, 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
•  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 21, 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
•  September 8, 1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
•  September 30, 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
•  October 15, 1888 – The “From Hell” letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

•  January 11, 1888 – Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
•  February 17, 1888 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
•  February 20, 1888 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
•  March 17, 1888 – Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
•  April 6, 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, film maker, graphic artist and avant-gardist (d. 1976)
•  May 9, 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)
•  July 16, 1888 – Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
•  September 18, 1888 – Toni Wolff, Swiss student and lover of Carl Jung (d. 1953)
•  November 19, 1888 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
•  December 27, 1888 – Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954)