1882

• 1882 Silver is discovered in the hills northeast of Blackwood
  
• 1882 News arrives that the railroad is suspending further westward construction due to financial problems (many workers settle in Blackwood and become teamsters or miners, some move on)
  
• 1882 The last great Indian buffalp hunt took place and the Turtle Mountain Reservation was established. Fire destroyed a large portion of Grand Forks.
• 1882  Jan 2, Oscar Wilde arrived in New York City and began totour the US with lectures on the aesthetic movement.
  
• 1882  Jan 6, Sam Rayburn, U.S. congressman from Texas who becamethe Speaker of the House of Representatives (1940-46, 1949-53), was born.
• 1882  Jan 18, A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist who wrote Winnie the Pooh, was born.
  
• 1882  Jan 25, Virginia Woolf (d.1941), English author, critic,was born. She was a member of the intellectual circle known as the Bloomsbury Group and wrote "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Orlando." "On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points." "I read the Book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out of it well." "The compensation of growing old was simply this: that the passions remain as strong as ever, but onehas gained-at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence,the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, inthe light." In 1997 Panthea Reid published: "Art and Affection: A Lifeof Virginia Woolf." In 1998 Mitchell Leaska published: "Granite and Rainbow:The Life of Virginia Woolf."
  
• 1882  Jan 30, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y. He led the country out of the GreatDepression and through most of World War II.
  
• 1882  Feb 2, James Joyce (d.1941), Irish novelist and poet wasborn near Dublin. He wrote "Ulysses" and "Portrait of an Artist as a YoungMan." From "Ulysses": "History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from whichI am trying to awake." In 1998 John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello publishedthe biography: "John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius ofJames Joyce's Father."
  
• 1882  Feb 7, American pugilist John L. Sullivan became the lastof the bare-knuckle world heavyweight champions with his defeat of PattyRyan in Mississippi City.
  
• 1882  Mar 22, US Congress outlawed polygamy. [see Morrill Act 1862]
  
• 1882  Mar 24, German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlinthat he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.
  
• 1882  Apr 3, Outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killedin St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang for a $5,000reward. Jesse and Frank James, the bank robbing James brothers, were bornas Woodson and Alexander.
  
• 1882  Apr 25, French commander Henri Riviere seized the citadelof Hanoi.
  
• 1882  Mar 29, The Knights of Columbus was granted a charter bythe state of Connecticut.
  
• 1882  Apr 3, Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph,Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang. Jesse and Frank James, thebank robbing James brothers, were born as Woodson and Alexander.
  
• 1882  Apr 26, Jessie Redmon Fauset, author, was born. Fauset'swork included: "There Is confusion," "Plum Bun," "The Chinaberry Tree,"and "American Style."
  
• 1882   Ralph Waldo Emerson , philosopher and author, died.He was one of the original members of the Transcendental Club with Thoreauand Orestes Brownson.
  
• 1882  May 6, Over President Arthur's veto, Congress passed theChinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the UnitedStates for 10 years.
  
• 1882  May 9, Henry J. Kaiser, builder of Liberty Ships for U.S.war effort, was born.
  
• 1882  May 22, The United States formally recognized Korea.
  
• 1882  Jun 17, Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky (d.1971), Russian-bornU.S. composer who wrote "The Rite of Spring" and "The Firebird" among othersymphonies, was born. His work included "The Rake's Progress" and "OedipusRex." The libretto for Rake's Progress was written by W.H. Auden and ChesterKallman. "Sin cannot be undone, only forgiven."
  
• 1882  Jun 30, Charles Guiteau the assassin of President Garfieldwas hanged in a Washington jail.
  
• 1882  Jul 1, Susan Glapell, playwright, author of 'Alison's House," was born.
  
• 1882  Jul 4, Telegraph Hill Observatory opened in SF.
  
• 1882  Jul 16, Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln,died of a stroke.
  
• 1882  Jul 31, Belle and Sam Starr were charged with Horse stealing in the Indian territory. Myra Maybelle Shirley (Belle Starr) was neithera belle nor the star of any outlaw band and still remains a legendary wildwoman of the Old West.
  
• 1882  Aug 3, Congress passed the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years. The Chinese Exclusion Act barred laborers from China and halted a massive immigration of Cantonese peasants.
• 1882  Aug 27, Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer who formed the Goldwyn film company, was born.
  
• 1882  Aug 28, Belle Benchley, the first female zoo director inthe world, who directed the Zoological Gardens of San Diego, was born.
  
• 1882  Aug 29, Australia defeated England in cricket for the first time. The following day a obituary appeared in the Sporting Times addressed to the British team.
  
• 1882  Sep 5, The first Labor Day observance-a picnic and parade-was held in New York City. Matthew Maguire, a machinist and secretary of theNew York City Central Labor Union, probably first suggested the celebrationin 1882 to recognize the contributions of workers to America. Parades likethe one in Buffalo, New York, around 1900, soon became an important partof Labor Day festivities. Matthew Maguire, a machinist and secretary ofthe New York City Central Labor Union, probably first suggested the celebrationin 1882 to recognize the contributions of workers to America. Local andregional Labor Day observances spread across the nation until, on June28, 1894, the U.S. Congress passed an act making the first Monday in Septembera legal holiday.
  
• 1882  Sep 18, The Pacific Stock Exchange was founded in SF as Local Security Board in the basement of Wohl & Pollitz at 403 California.
  
• 1882  Oct 5, Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist who possessed over 200 rocketry patents, was born.
  
• 1882  Oct 5, Outlaw Frank James surrendered in Missouri six months after brother Jesse's assassination.
  
• 1882  Oct 18, Alexander Graham Bell made his historic telephonecall to the mayor of Chicago.
  
• 1882  Oct 29, Jean Giraudoux, French dramatist, novelist and diplomat, famous for his book "Tiger at the Gates," was born.
  
• 1882  Oct 30, William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., American admiral,was born. He played an instrumental role in the defeat of Japan duringWorld War II. The Japanese surrender was signed on his flagship, the USSMissouri.
  
• 1882  Nov 2, Newly elected John Poe replaced Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory.
  
• 1882  Nov 10, Frances Perkins, first US woman cabinet member--Secretary of Labor, was born.
  
• 1882  Nov 14, Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, lost his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie.
  
• 1882  Dec 11, Fiorella H. La Guardia, mayor of New York City, 1933-1945, was born.
  
• 1882  Dec 28, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomerwho confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, was born.
  
• 1882  Claude Monet painted "The Cliff Walk (Pourville)." His series of seaside cliff scenes are among his most dramatic paintings.
  
• 1882  John Singer Sargent painted "The Sulphur Match" and "TheDaughters of Edward Boit." He also completed "El Jaleo," the mural-scaledepiction of a Spanish dancer.
  
• 1882  Vincent Van Gogh painted "The Wounded Veteran.'
  
• 1882  Ignatius Donnelly wrote "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World."
  
• 1882  J.A. Gillet and W.J. Rolfe published "The Heavens Above,"a popular handbook of astronomy.
  
• 1882  Leslie Stephen, the father of Virginia Woolf, began writing the "Dictionary of National Biography."
  
• 1882  Henrik Ibsen wrote his moral melodrama "An Enemy of the People."
  
• 1882  The maternal grandfather of jazz saxophonist Sam Rivers published "A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies."
  
• 1882  Brahms completed his "Piano Concerto in B flat M."
  
• 1882  The six tone poems "Ma Vlast" (My Homeland) by Czech composer Smetana were first performed in their entirety.
  
• 1882  The first performance of Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal."
  
• 1882  The Golden Gate Park Band was founded in San Francisco andbegan performing annual concerts in Golden Gate Park.
• 1882  In Colorado Bat Masterson served as the town Marshall ofTrinidad.
  
• 1882  In Colorado the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad was completed to haul gold, silver and other minerals.
  
• 1882  In Colorado Bat Masterson served as the town Marshall ofTrinidad.
  
• 1882  The Knights of Columbus, a benevolent society of Roman Catholic men, was founded in the US.
  
• 1882  Marshall Virgil Earp and his brother Wyatt left Tombstone,Arizona.
  
• 1882  Pres. Chester Arthur approved new borders for the Hopi reservation, a 1.6 million-acre site in the center of 17 million acres of Navajo landin the 4 Corners area of the Southwest. A 3,863 sq. mile area was set upas a Hopi reservation. The intent was to keep Mormon settlers away fromHopi pueblos. The Hopi Reservation was formed on territory historicallyused by both Hopi and Navajo.
  
• 1882  Theodore Roosevelt described Thomas Jefferson as "perhapsthe most incapable executive that ever filled the presidential chair."Roosevelt added, "It would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guidea state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked theopening of the present century."
  
• 1882  Barbed wire was used to fence the west at this time. Specimens were later put on display at Oracle Junction, Arizona, and included Dodge and Washburn and Ellwood "Spread."
  
• 1882  Charles M. Bergstresser bankrolled a publishing venture with Charles Dow and Edward Jones and established the new agency known as theCustomer's Afternoon Letter. Bergstresser dubbed it the Wall street Journalin 1889. Dow and Jones left the Kiernan New Agency to launch Dow Jones.Dow developed an initial stock average containing 11 stocks, which appearedin the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a 2-page bulletin that developed intothe WSJ.
  
• 1882  The Standard Oil Trust began and issued its first stock signed by John D. Rockefeller. The trust was preceded by the Standard Oil Company.
  
• 1882  The factory of the Racine Silver Plate Co. burned down. Itwas re-opened a year later in Rockford, Ill.
  
• 1882  The Royal Worcester pottery company in England began making the "Asthetic" or "Oscar Wilde" teapots. They depicted a man on one sideand a woman on the other and were inspired by the Gilbert and Sullivanoperetta "Patience."
  
• 1882  Thomas Edison manufactured electricity generators .
  
• 1882  Edison Electric installed a power grid in Manhattan thatwrecked telephone reception.
  
• 1882  In Chicago electric streetcars began running and createdhavoc with the telephone system.
  
• 1882  The electric iron was patented.
  
• 1882  Electric lights were first used on a Christmas tree.
  
• 1882  Thomas Doolittle began manufacturing new hard-drawn copper wire. Angus Hibbard, field operation manager for American Bell, began touse the new wire to replace the old iron lines.
  
• 1882  Charles Darwin, naturalist, died.
• 1882  Alexander Hamilton Stephens was elected governor of Georgia but died after serving just a few months.
  
• 1882  In London euphoric investors pushed up the stock prices ofthe first companies to issue shares for companies with new patents forequipment to power electric lights.
  
• 1882  Parliament passed the Electric Lights Act to regulate electric utilities.
  
• 1882  The central Bank of Japan was established.
  
• 1882-1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the US.