1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1884 - Events. January 4 - The Fabian Society is founded in London. January 18 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for c ...

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1884 in rail transport - February events. February 22 - Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 1,000th new steam locomotive. 1884 in rail transport - March events. March 17 - The Southern Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Kentucky. March - Central Pacific Railroad's El Gobernador, at the time the largest locomotive in the world, enters service.See also:

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1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1880s - Events and Trends. Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. First steel frame construction "sky-scrapers" American Society of Mecha ...

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See also: 1918 in sports, other events of 1919, 1920 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. 1919 in sports - Baseball Major League. Babe Ruth hits 29 home runs for the Boston Red Sox, breaking the single-season record of 27, set by Ned Williamson in 1884. In the World Series, the Cincinnati Reds upset the Chicago White Sox 5-3. Rumors are rife even during the Series that members of the White Sox team have taken bribes to throw the Series to the Reds. This will explode a year ...

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(a.k.a. Remnants 1898-1901) Wrigley Field (1916-present) a.k.a. Cub’s Park 1916-1920 West Side Park (II) 1893-1915 South Side Park 1891-1893 West Side Park (I) 1885-1891 Lakefront Park (II) 1883-1884 Lakefront Park (I) 1878-1882 23rd Street Grounds 1876-1877 ♦ - Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson's #42 is retired by Major League Baseball The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball team ...

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The beer riots in Bavaria between 1 May and 5 May 1844 began after King Ludwig I of Bavaria decreed a tax on beer. Crowds of urban workers beat up police, while the Bavarian army showed reluctance to get involved. Civil order was restored only after the King decreed a ten percent reduction in the price of beer. Following the Revolutions of 1848, Ludwig I abdicated in favor of his son, Maximilian II. A young pre-Marxist Frederick Engels wrote about the events for the ...

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Dr. William Price (1800 – 23 January 1893) of Pontypridd, South Wales, was a physician and a famous eccentric, best known for introducing cremation to the United Kingdom. He was a prominent Welsh Chartist and was forced to flee to Paris, France, after his part in the Newport Rising of 1839. He was an equally prominent Druid and exponent of 19th-century Druidic traditions, appointing himself as archdruid. As a child, Price caused consternation by walking the hills naked. In later life, his list of eccentric behaviours i ...

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The Nanaimo mine explosion on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killed 150 miners and was the largest man-made explosion in the world until the Halifax Explosion. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day. The explosion started deep underground in the Number One Coal Mine, after explosives were laid improperly. Although many miners died instantly, others were trapped by the explosion. These men wrote farewell messages in the dust of their shovels. More than 150 children lost their fathers and 46 women became widows ...

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Bobsleigh is a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. In the United States the sport is known as bobsled. The sport was invented in Switzerland. The first races were run on snow-covered roads, with the opening competition in 1884 at St. Moritz. The first club was formed in 1897 and the first purpose-built track was opened in 1902. A modern track should be at least 1500 metres long and have at least fifteen curves, speeds up to 130 km/h are common and some curves can subject the crews to over five g. There are thi ...

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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom) is one of the best-known architectural monuments in Germany and has been Cologne's most famous landmark for centuries. The cathedral is under the administration of the Roman Catholic Church and is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne. From 1880, when its spires were completed, until 1884 it was the world's tallest structure, losing its title on the completion of the Washington Monument in Washington DC. Cologne Cathedral remains the tallest Gothic structure in th ...

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The Winchester Mystery House is a unique mansion located at 525 Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California. Its construction began in 1884, and was financed and built by Sarah L. Winchester, the heiress of the man who invented and manufactured the Winchester rifle. Construction continued 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, until her death 38 years later in 1922. This has been estimated to have cost about 5.5 million dollars. The mansion is famous for its large size, and the fact that it followed no overall pla ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. 1818 - Events. January 1 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published. January 3 21:52 UTC - Venus occulted Jupiter. It was the last occultation of a planet by an other planet be ...

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1884 in rail transport - July births. July 6 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central railroad system (d. 1970). 1884 in rail transport - December births. December 9 - Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931–1932) and later Vice President for the Londo ...

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The MCG was redesigned and drained by RC Bagot in 1861. In 1876 the reversible stand was built, located at the northern end of the ground, but in 1884 a grandstand replaced the old reversible stand which had burnt down. In 1881 beside the MCC pavilion was constructed a new members' pavilion, with the foundation stone being put in place by Prince George of Wales, and Prince Albert Victor on July 4. It was opened in December that year. It was also the year that a telephone was installed at the grounds, and the wickets and goal posts were chang ...

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The first baseball match recorded being played at the MCG was in October 1885, by a team from the USS Enterprise, against an MCC chosen team (and the MCG also recorded the largest crowd ever at a baseball match (over 100,000) for an exhibition match during the 1956 Olympics). Rugby league was first played at the grounds in 1914, with a New South Wales team playing England. During World War II the stand was used by the Australian and American army. It was used by the US Army Air Forces who moved into the MCG and gave the name of ...

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1918 in rail transport - February events. February 3 - Twin Peaks Tunnel in Los Angeles, California, the longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in the world, opens. 1918 in rail transport - March events. March 19 - The United States Congress adopts Standard or "Railroad" time, in use since 1884, as the national standard. March 21 - The Railroad Control Act becomes law in the United States, guaranteeing the return to private ownership and administration of America's railroad ...

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Grover Cleveland - Supreme Court appointments. Cleveland appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States during his first term. Lucius Quintus C. Lamar - 1888 Melville Weston Fuller - Chief Justice - 1888 Cleveland appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court during his second term. Edward Douglass W ...

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Singers gather annually at Benton, Kentucky on the fourth Sunday in May to sing from a shape note hymn and tune book called The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion. This event, first organized in 1884 and called The Big Singing or Big Singing Day, is considered by many to be the oldest indigenous musical tradition in the United States. It was organized by James Roberts Lemon, a new ...

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From 1884-1990, there were 44 tornadoes with school fatalities in the United States. These tornadoes killed 263 (not including the 9 from the probable downburst in New York state). Tornado warnings began being issued in 1950 (and tornado watches in late 1952); and there is a very sharp decrease in number of killer tornado events at schools after this time, as well as a large decrease in death tolls from tornadoes overall. There were 39 tornadoes with deaths at schools (219 deaths) before 1953 and 5 events (44 deaths) after that year (not inc ...

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List of tornado-related deaths at schools, List of tornado-related deaths at schools - List, List of tornado-related deaths at schools - Comments

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