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Contents
CURRENT
- ISSUE #2, as of 11/6/07
September, '88
- 9th
- BROADSHEET Daily Trumpet Issue #2: HEADLINE - "RIPPER - RED LIGHT KILLING TOO MUCH FOR THE POLICE?"
- 8th
- London, the dead body of Annie Chapman is found. She is considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper.
- England, the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.
- 6th
- Charles Turner becomes the first cricket bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
- 4th
- George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
- 31th
- Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She was perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
- 7th
- The body of Martha Tabram was found, a possible murder victim of Jack the Ripper.
August, '88
- 31th
- BROADSHEET Daily Trumpet Issue #1: HEADLINE - " MENACE to MANKIND! An unknowable Spyder-man haunts the city"
June, '88
- 29th
- Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace, it being the earliest known recording of classical music.
- 3rd
- Casey at the Bat published
March, '88
- 22nd
- The Football League is formed
- 11th
- The "Great Blizzard of '88" begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
February, '88
- 27th
- In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film.
January, '88
- 27th
- In Washington, DC, the National Geographic Society is founded.
- 12th
- Blizzards (see: Schoolhouse Blizzard) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, with 235 dead, many of whom were children on their way home from school.
- 3rd
- The 91-centimeter telescope is first used at Lick Observatory.
NOTES
- 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.
- October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
