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1888 Calendar

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•  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.
•  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.
•  April 3, 1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
•  June 3, 1888 – The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
•  June 15, 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
•  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.
•  August 31, 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
•  October 14, 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.

•  January 8, 1888 – Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
•  February 19, 1888 – Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
•  March 4, 1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942)
•  March 19, 1888 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
•  June 12, 1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
•  July 14, 1888 – Scipio Slataper, Italian writer and essayist (d. 1915)
•  September 18, 1888 – Grey Owl, British-born First Nations conservationist (d. 1938)
•  September 19, 1888 – Porter Hall, American actor d. 1953
•  November 15, 1888 – Artie Matthews, songwriter, pianist, & ragtime composer (d. 1958)
•  December 6, 1888 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949)