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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.
•  March 15, 1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
•  March 22, 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
•  April 6, 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
•  May 13, 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea (“Golden Law”), Brazil abolishes slavery.
•  June 3, 1888 – The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
•  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.
•  October 14, 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
•  December 18, 1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.

•  February 8, 1888 – Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
•  April 9, 1888 – Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (d. 1974)
•  April 18, 1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
•  May 23, 1888 – Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
•  June 27, 1888 – Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
•  July 22, 1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
•  September 1, 1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
•  September 18, 1888 – Toni Wolff, Swiss student and lover of Carl Jung (d. 1953)
•  October 7, 1888 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
•  October 16, 1888 – Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)