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March 11 – The "Great Blizzard of 1888" begins along the East Coast of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. March 25 – Opening of an international Congress for Women's Rights organized by Susan B. Anthony in Washington, D.C., leading to formation of the International Council of Women , a key event in the ...
5 giorni fa · Learn about the Great Blizzard of 1888, one of the fiercest East Coast storms ever recorded. As railroads drove western expansion, Buffalo Bill brought Wild West shows back east, hiring displaced Native people.
March 11-14, 1888 - The eastern section of the United States undergoes a great snow storm, killing four hundred people. More June 16, 1888 - The prototype for the commercial phonograph is completed by Thomas A. Edison and staff at his laboratory near Glenmont, his estate in West Orange, New Jersey.
In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. The dolphin Pelorus Jack is first sighted in Cook Strait, New Zealand. The Camborne School of Mines is founded in Cornwall, England. John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg shorthand in the United States.
The 1888 United States presidential election was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democratic President Grover Cleveland of New York.
- Indiana
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- Benjamin Harrison
- Levi P. Morton
Events from the year 1888 in the United States. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, built in 1888 in Washington, DC. Barthrop House in Port Townsend, Washington, built in 1888.
Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station in New York City begins generating electricity to supply 400 street lamps and 85 customers with electrical power on September 4, 1882. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884. The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor from France, in July 1885.
