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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
41: ... Milligan]]'' 71 US 2 1866 rules that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals when civilian co...
78: *[[1876]] - [[Centennial Exposition]] in [[Philadelphia]]
79: *[[1876]] - ''Munn v. Illinois'' establishes public regulation of ut...
112: *[[1888]] - Publication of ''[[Looking Backward]]'' by [[...
113: *[[1888]] - [[National Geographic Society]] founded - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...s numbered year on [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [...
21: ...ion of [[slave]]s into the [[United States]] is banned
30: *[[1898]] - [[New York City]] annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the ...
44: *[[1939]] - The [[Vienna New Year's Concert]] is first held.
58: ...[[1971]] - [[Cigarette]] [[advertisement]]s are banned on [[United States|American]] [[television]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: *[[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, i...
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]]...
15: ...ery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[Acad魩e des Sciences...
23: *[[1900]] - [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade w...
27: ...radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]) . - Blizzard (4179 bytes)
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)
1: ...ld Series Trophy]]. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exception of 1904 a...
7: ...ding shares are distributed to the World Series winner, the World Series loser, all the other teams qu...
9: ...e is no reason to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club te...
15: ... World Cup of Baseball, to be held at least quadrennially during the Northern Hemisphere winter at a w...
55: * 1888 [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]] - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ...s'' (after several players married prior to the [[1888]] season), the ''Superbas'' (under manager Ned Ha...
13: :'''American Association pennants won''' (1): [[1889]]
14: :'''National League pennants won''' (21): [[1890]], [[1899]], [[1900]], [[...
23: ...s'', as they were then known won two successive pennats under [[Ned Hanlon]] in 1899 and 1900.
27: ...nants in [[1916]] and [[1920]] and contending perennially for several seasons. Upon assuming the titl... - St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
15: ...nants won''' (4): [[1885]], [[1886]], [[1887]], [[1888]]
16: :'''National League pennants won''' (16): [[1926]], [[1928]], [[1930]], [[...
18: ... and who would be the National League Wild-Card winner. Since Houston won the season series against th...
40: The [[1960s]] brought three National League pennants to St. Louis. Hall of Famers such as [[Lou B...
43: ...dinal manager, Herzog won three National League pennants, and a [[1982 World Series]] title. The [[198... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
28: [[image:ottawa-sudbury.jpg|left|300px|Winning the face off can be the key to some strategies...
32: ...r stick to fool a defender or the goalie. ''Headmanning the puck'' is the tactic of rapidly passing to...
34: ...tremely risky, and as often as not leads to the winning team scoring a goal in the empty net.
36: ...rsonal scores. [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] owner [[Conn Smythe]] famously observed that "If you can't bea...
40: ...e ''periods'' of twenty minutes each, the clock running only when the puck is in play. In internationa... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
26: ...[Melvin Calvin]] (1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
37: ...]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or ... - Triceratops (4523 bytes)
26: ...ps'' was discovered by [[John Bell Hatcher]] in [[1888]]. Its declaration as a legitimate dinosaur came ...
35: * Defense against carnivores such as ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
4: ...[[Scientist]], [[inventor]] of the telephone and innovations in aviation and hydrofoil technology |
27: ...nferred on him the decoration of the [[L駩on d'honneur]] (Legion of Honor), the [[Acad魩e fran硩se]...
29: ...[[1922]] and is buried alongside his wife atop Beinn Bhreagh Mountain overlooking [[Bras d'Or Lake]]. ...
45: [[Johann Philipp Reis|Philipp Reis]], a German self-taught...
70: ... were four young men, American [[Glenn Curtiss|Glenn H. Curtiss]], a motorcycle manufacturer who would... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...econd son, [[Ludvig Nobel|Ludvig Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfred, re...
23: The erroneous publication in [[1888]] of a [[List of premature obituaries|premature o...
25: ...e [[Nobel Prize]] after his death (to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality). He died...
33: ... inventors. In a sense the technological prizes announced recently by the [[World Technology Network]... - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
9: On [[September 4]], [[1888]] Eastman registered the trademark ''Kodak'',whic...
13: ...ing became a slow shuffle that was caused by an (unnamed at the time) degenerative disorder that was a...
15: ...of Photography and Film]] in 1947. On the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1954, Eastman was honored... - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
8: ... [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a sawmill.
29: ...utomobiles. Subsequently, the company adopted an annual model change system similar to that in use by ...
35: ... a seat on the board and was responsible for personnel, labor relations, and public relations.
40: ...e, and, importantly, conducted their lives in a manner of which Ford approved. The company established...
44: ...oxer, to be the head of the Service Department. Bennett employed various intimidation tactics to squas... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
20: *[[Giovanni di Balduccio]]
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
68: *[[Marie-Anne Collot]]
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
119: *[[Paolo di Giovanni]] - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
4: ...at are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and ...
9: ...g when a clamping device, called a ''grip'', is connected to the moving cable. Conversely the car is s...
21: ...to the cable slot to stop the car. Both of these innovations were generally adopted by other cities, i...
23: ...people at the time viewed horse-drawn transit as unnecessarily cruel, and the fact that a typical hors...
36: ...hich is itself stopped and started. A cable car cannot climb as steep a grade as a funicular, but many... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
9: ... [[1700s]], the wooden tracks and wheels were beginning to be replaced by iron. In the mid century sys...
14: ...His locomotive had no name, and was used at the Pennydarren ironworks in [[Wales]]. It was not financi...
22: ... was needed for [[industrialization]]. In the beginning, [[Canal|canals]] were in competition with the...
24: ...olitan Line|Metropolitan Railway]] was built to connect several of these separate railway terminals, a...
27: ... and so street railways were born. In January of 1888, [[Richmond, Virginia]] served as a proving groun... - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
6: Röntgen was born in [[Lennep]] (now a part of [[Remscheid]]), Germany, to a ...
12: ...United States (in [[Iowa]]) and at one time he planned to emigrate. Although he accepted an appointme...
16: ...tubes. By late 1895 these investigators were beginning to explore the properties of [[cathode ray]]s ...
22: ...misrepresents his investigative powers; he had planned to use the screen in the next step of his exper...
37: ...edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Röntgen,+Wilhelm Annotated bibliography for Wilhelm Rontgen from the A... - Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
7: ...t romanticised account, he asked [[James Gordon Bennett, Jr.]], the paper's owner, how much he could s...
9: ...ion, establishing for certain that there was no connection between Lake Tanganyika and the river [[Nil...
13: ...ips and great loss of life, Stanley met Emin in [[1888]], discovered the [[Ruwenzori Range]] and [[Lake ...
15: ... Europe, he married the Welsh artist, [[Dorothy Tennant]], and entered [[Parliament]] as [[Unionist]] ... - Richard E. Byrd (4114 bytes)
1: ...'', [[United States Navy|USN]] ([[October 25]], [[1888]] – [[March 11]], [[1957]]) was an pioneeri...
9: On [[May 9]], [[1926]], Byrd and [[Floyd Bennett]] attempted a flight over the North Pole. They...
12: ...d photographer Ashley McKinley flew the ''Floyd Bennet'' to the South Pole and back in 18 hours, 41 mi...
22: ...//www.south-pole.com/p0000107.htm Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957].
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