Editing Timeline of the Avengers' 1888 story (section)

==1888==
::  December 23 - During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear and gives it to a prostitute.
::  November 9 - In London, England, the dead body of Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.
::  November 6 - The U.S. presidential election, 1888. United States Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the U.S. Electoral College vote to United States Republican Party challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
::  October 14 - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: ''Roundhay Garden Scene'' in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Followed by his movie  ''Leeds Bridge''.
::  October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
::  September 30 - In London, the bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victim respectively.

===1892===                         
::  Ellis Island opens to receive immigrants

===1893===                         
::  First World’s Fair in Chicago

===1894===
::  Edison’s kinetoscope (motion pictures) given first public showing

===1898===                        
::  USS Maine destroyed in Havana in February, sparking the Spanish-American war; ends in December with the Treaty of Paris
::  Hawaii annexed

===1899===                        
::  U.S. declares Open Door Policy; opens trade with China

===1900===                         
::  U.S. helps quell Boxer Rebellion in China

===1901===                         
::  President McKinley assassinated by Leon Czolgosz;
::  Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

===1903===                         
::  Wright Brothers make first flight at Kitty Hawk, NC 

===1906===
::  San Francisco earthquake kills 503

===1908===                         
::  Ford Model T available for $850

===1909===                         
::  Robert Peary claims to have reached North Pole

===1910===                         
::  Boy Scouts founded

===1911===                         
::  Mother’s Day becomes a U.S. holiday
::  First transcontinental airplane flight

===1912===                         
::  R.M.S. Titanic sinks in North Atlantic after hitting iceberg
::  Girl Scouts founded

===1913===                         
::  Father’s Day becomes a U.S. holiday

===1914-1918===                 
::  World War I, ending with the Treaty of Versailles

===1914===                         
::  Panama Canal opens

===1915===                         
::  First transcontinental telephone call

===1916===                         
::  Pershing enters Mexico to pursue Pancho Villa, who had raided border areas

===1917===                         
::  U.S. enters World War I, following Germany’s declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare


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