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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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1882 - Events. January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust. February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut February 3 - P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing champi ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). 1881 - Events. January 16-January 24 - Siege of Geok Tepe - Russian troops under general Skobeleff defeat Turkomans January 24 - William Edward Forster, the chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill - it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2 January 25 - Th ...

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1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1886 - Events. January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi. March 19 ? Compl ...

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1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1887 - Events. January 6 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II early in the morning; prepared for the assault, the Negus orders a counter-attack which routs the enemy, resulting with the capture of Harar a few days later. ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1892 - Events. January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States. January 14 - Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger brother Prince George of Wales. J ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1891 - Events. January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state. January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii March 3 - The International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed by the 51st Congress of ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). 1890 - Events. January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House. January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma fraternity founded January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.< ...

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1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). In Germany, 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1888 - Events. January 3 - 91cm telescope first used at Lick Observatory January 12 - Blizzards in Dakota and Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas - 235 dead, many of which were children on their way home from school January 24 - Jacob L. ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1880 - Events. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada. July 16 - First woman licensed to pra ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1879 - Events. January - The current constitution of The State of California, US was ratified. January 2 - Fred Spofforth claims the first Hat-trick in test cricket. January 11 - Anglo-Zulu War begins. January 22 - Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. At Ro ...

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September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining. It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099). September 11 - Events. 1226 - The Catholic practice of Perpetual adoration begins. 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English. 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors. ...

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August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 142 days remaining. August 11 - Events. 3114 BC - On this date in the proleptic Gregorian calendar begins our current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar. 480 BC - Persians under Xerxes defeat Spartans under King Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae. The Spartans fought to the last man. 480 BC - The Persian and Greek fleets also fight the indecisive Battle ...

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Eamon de Valera[1] (born Edward George de Valera, sometimes Gaelicised Éamon de Bhailéara; October 14, 1882 – August 29, 1975), was an Irish politician, best known as a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 20th Century, and the Republican ...

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Buddhism is a religion with millions of followers in the United States, including traditionally Buddhist Asian Americans as well as non-Asian converts. The U.S. presents a strikingly new and different environment for Buddhists, leading to a unique history and a continuing process of development as Buddhism and America come to grips with each other. Buddhism in the United States - Early history. Occasional intersections between Western civilization and the Buddhist world have been occurring for thousands of years. ...

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The 13th Floor Elevators were a rock music group founded in Austin, Texas in late 1965. Personnel were singer/guitarist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, bass guitarist Benny Thurman, guitarist Stacy Sutherland, and drummer John Ike Walton. Erickson and Hall were the band's primary songwriters, but most of the band members wrote or co-wrote some material. They found only limited success, but are commonly regarded as one of the first psychedelic bands, and have been cited as an influential protopunk group. The squeaking, fluttering sound of Hall's amplified ...

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The U.S. presidential election of 1860 is widely considered to be a realigning election. The nation had been divided through most of the 1850s on the issue of slavery, with Northerners and Southerners disagreeing over whether or not it should be expanded to the territories, and fighting for each new state admitted to the Union. In 1860, this issue finally came to a head, bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party to power, while it ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1878 - Events. January - Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy January 5 - Battle of Shipka Pass IV January 17 - Battle of Plovdiv January 23 - Disraeli orders British fleet to Dardanelles January 28 - The Yale News bec ...

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1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1876 - Events. January 31 United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed. February 14 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone. February 22 - Johns Hopkins University fou ...

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