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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
112: *[[1888]] - Publication of ''[[Looking Backward]]'' by [[...
113: *[[1888]] - [[National Geographic Society]] founded
122: *[[1890]] - [[McKinley tariff]]
144: *[[1897]] - [[William McKinley]] becomes President [[Image:USSMaine.jpg|thumb|... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
184: ...aurice Chevalier]], French actor and singer (b. [[1888]])
185: ...1981]] - [[Beulah Bondi]], American actress (b. [[1888]])
219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1] - January 2 (10888 bytes)
60: ...sicist, contributions to [[thermodynamics]] (d. [[1888]])
136: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/2 Today in History: January 2] - Blizzard (4179 bytes)
17: ...n as the "Blizzard of [[1880]]." [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=blizzard]
25: ...ng winter storms in one season. The [[Blizzard of 1888]] paralyzed the [[Northeastern United States]]. I...
29: ...years to the day (March 12) after the blizzard of 1888, a massive blizzard, nicknamed the [[Storm of the...
33: *The [[Blizzard of 1888]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
7: ... leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their div...
9: ...rld" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] pa...
55: * 1888 [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]]
63: * 1896 [[Baltimore Orioles (NL)|Baltimore Orioles]]
77: ...ston AL]] defeats [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh NL]], 5 games to 3. - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ... the ''Superbas'' (under manager Ned Hanlon -- "Hanlon's Superbas" was the name of an acrobatic troup ...
23: ...en known won two successive pennats under [[Ned Hanlon]] in 1899 and 1900.
25: In 1902 Hanlon expressed his desire to buy a controlling inter...
32: *The only Brooklyn World Series title came in [[1955 World...
52: ...re]]; opted not to resign fan favorite Lima; and only just managed to complete a trade of [[Shawn Gree... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
15: ...nants won''' (4): [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1887]], [[1888]]
17: ...nals (with the [[Oakland Athletics]]) are second only to the [[New York Yankees]] in the number of Wor...
37: ... the Cardinals (who were effectively the South's only major league team until the 1960s) gained notori...
62: ...assing when ace pitcher [[Darryl Kile]] died suddenly of heart failure while in Chicago for a series a...
64: ...in the [[2004 National League Championship Series|NLCS]], the Cards took a 2-0 lead, then lost three s... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
5: ... [[Hockey stick|stick]] with a blade that is commonly curved at one end. Players may also redirect the...
19: ... typically two ''linesmen'', who are responsible only for calling offside and icing violations, and on...
40: ...iods'' of twenty minutes each, the clock running only when the puck is in play. In international play,...
48: ...t players may instead wear a visor that protects only their eyes, or no mask at all; however, some pro...
55: ...n interesting historical footnote, one of Lord Stanley's sons was instrumental in instituting ice hock... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
69: *[[Victor Goldschmidt]], (1888-1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [... - Triceratops (4523 bytes)
26: ...ps'' was discovered by [[John Bell Hatcher]] in [[1888]]. Its declaration as a legitimate dinosaur came ... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
23: ...deavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send musical notes, but articulate speech. With ...
25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
27: ...[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. In [[1888]], he was one of the founding members of the [[Na...
39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used. - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...g Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, returning to Sweden with his fa...
7: ...act that Alfred Nobel was also a playwright. His only play (''[[Nemesis (Nobel)|Nemesis]]'', a prose t...
23: The erroneous publication in [[1888]] of a [[List of premature obituaries|premature o... - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
9: On [[September 4]], [[1888]] Eastman registered the trademark ''Kodak'',whic... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
2: ...ffordable [[automobile]]s. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the Unit...
8: ... engines. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
123: *[[Paul Granlund]] (1925 - 2003)
157: *[[Rikardur Jonsson]] (1888 - 1972)
221: *[[Chana Orloff]] (1888 - 1968)
262: *[[Oskar Schlemmer]] (1888 - 1943) - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
23: ...el, and the fact that a typical horse could work only 4 or 5 hours per day necessitated the maintenanc...
31: ...here. Eventually, San Francisco would become the only street operating manually operated system to sur...
86: * [[Newark, New Jersey]] ([[1888]]–[[1889]])
96: * [[Seattle, Washington]] ([[1888]]–[[1940]]) - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
6: ... [[England]] in the [[1820s]]. They remained the only practical overland mechanized transport for well...
27: ... and so street railways were born. In January of 1888, [[Richmond, Virginia]] served as a proving groun...
29: ...e Counties, and the [[Inland Empire (California)|Inland Empire]]. There were similar systems in Europ... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
12: ...nizing radiation because his investigations were only for a short time and he was one of the few pione...
38: *[http://members.chello.nl/~h.dijkstra19/page5.html The Cathode Ray Tube sit... - Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
1: '''Sir Henry Morton Stanley''' ([[January 29]],[[1841]] – [[May 10]],...
3: ...he became friendly with a wealthy trader named Stanley, whose name he assumed.
5: [[Image:Henry_Morton_Stanley.jpg|thumb|Famous explorer who said "Dr.Livingst...
7: ... not been heard of for some time. According to Stanley's no doubt romanticised account, he asked [[Jam...
9: ...urnal) by saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley joined him in exploring the region, establishin... - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
1: ...'', [[United States Navy|USN]] ([[October 25]], [[1888]] – [[March 11]], [[1957]]) was an pioneeri...
5: ...Of the three [[flying boats]] that attempted it, only [[Albert Read]]'s aircraft the [[NC-4]] complete...
12: ...radioman Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinley flew the ''Floyd Bennet'' to the South Pole and...
22: ...//www.south-pole.com/p0000107.htm Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957].
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