1880
- Population of the United States (in 38 states): 50,155,783
1880 - Population
of New York City: 5,075,135
1880 - The Thinker is sculpted by Auguste
Rodin
1880 - First parcel post
1881 - Henry P. Crowell buys a bankrupt
mill and launches "Quaker Oats"
1881 - In Wisconsin, the first ice
cream sundae is served
1881 - Jesse James commits his last hold-up
1881
- Pres. Garfield dies of wounds from Guiteau gunshot. Arthur becomes president.
1881 - In NYC Thomas Edison displays the first practical electrical lighting
system
1882 - Tolstoy is born
1882 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary
and Italy is signed
1883 - Joseph Pulitzer buys the New York World newspaper,
1884 - The United States formally recognizes King Leopold's Congo regime
1884
- Congress passes the Organic Act of 1884, providing a civil government for Alaska
1884 - Moses Walker is the first black player to appear in a professional
baseball game
1884 - People can now make long distance phone calls
1884
- Waterman's fountain pen blots out earlier versions
1883 - World's first
skyscraper (10-story Home Insurance Bldg) opens in Chicago
1885 - George Eastman
markets the first "box camera"
1885 - Burroughs invents the adding
machine
1885 - "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan opens at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre in NYC
1885 - Dictating machines are bought for offices
1885 - Thomas Edison given patent for the wireless induction telegraph
1885
- Trains are delivering newspapers daily
1885 - U.S. Post Office offers special
delivery
1886 - Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago, Illionois
1886
- A pharmacist creates Coca-Cola as a "headache tonic"
1886 - Daimler
invents internal combustion engine
1886 - Mergenthaler constructs a linotype
machine for setting type
1887 - Anne Sullivan arrives in Tuscumbia, Alabama
to tutor young Helen Keller
1887 - Montgomery Ward mails out a 540-page catalog
1887 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the disc record with Tainter
1887
- Woods invents the Railroad Telegraph
1887 - The first story containing Sherlock
Holmes is published
1887 - The Statue of Liberty is "launched" in
New York Harbor
1887 - Popular authors include Alcott, Howell, James, Jewett,
Twain, Wharton
1888 - Jack the Ripper murders six women in London
1888
- "Casey at the Bat" is first published in "The San Francisco Examiner".
1888 - The name Kodak and a patent for roll-film camera is registered by George
Eastman
1888 - Alexander Graham Bell and others help to found National Geographic
Society
1888 - An institute to treat rabies is founded as a result of Louis
Pasteur's research
1888 - Loud invents the ballpoint pen
1889 - Nelly
Bly beats the 80 day around-the-world record of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg
1889
- Alexandra Gustave Eiffel's designs for the Eiffel Tower are seen to fruition
1889 - In the last championship bare-knuckle fight (2 hrs, 16 min) Sullivan
defeats Kilrain
1889 - William Gray of Hartford, CT patents the coin-operated
telephone.
1889 - An early Edison motion picture is shown with synchronized
phonograph sound.
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