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1888 Calendar

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•  January 27, 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
•  March 2, 1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
•  June 3, 1888 – The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
•  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.
•  July 15, 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
•  August 21, 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
•  August 31, 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
•  September 8, 1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
•  November 9, 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

•  January 11, 1888 – Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
•  April 15, 1888 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
•  May 3, 1888 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
•  May 28, 1888 – Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English, eccentric first wife of American poet, T.S. Eliot (d. 1947)
•  July 26, 1888 – Reginald Hands, South African cricketer (d. 1918)
•  August 13, 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d. 1946)
•  September 1, 1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
•  September 6, 1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American banker and diplomat (d. 1969)
•  November 24, 1888 – Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
•  December 16, 1888 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)