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1886 Jan-Mar: the Great White
Ruin continues with the coldest temperatures and heaviest snow on record.
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1886 April: the Black River rises
to record heights in the worst Spring flood ever witnessed. The town of
Blackwood is inundated. Miraculously no lives are lost, but the town is
almost totally destroyed.
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1886 Spring: Blackwood historical
simulation ends
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1886 Severe winter in the western
part of Dakota Territory put an end to open range ranching and the Bank
of Hamilton (oldest state bank in North Dakota) was opened. The Soo Line
Railway began construction in northern Dakota at Fairmont; the Soo completed
its lines to Portal in 1893.
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1886 Jan 1, A great blizzard buried the eastern
and southern plains, killing 50 to 85 percent of the cattle herds.
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1886 Feb 27, Hugo Black was born. He became the
U.S. Supreme Court Justice who wrote opinions forbidding prayer in schools.
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1886 Mar 3, The Treaty of Bucharest concluded
the Serb-Bulgarian war, reestablishing prewar Serbo-Bulgarian borders
but leaving Eastern Rumelia and Bulgaria united.
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1886 Mar 17, Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi
occurred. 20 Blacks were killed.
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1886 Apr, Abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave
a speech in Washington to celebrate the 24th year after the Emancipation
Proclamation. He said: "Where justice is denied, where poverty is
enforced, where ignorance prevails, where any one class is made to feel
that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them,
neither persons nor property will be safe.
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1886 May 4, At Haymarket Square in Chicago, a
labor demonstration for an eight-hour workday turned into a riot when
a bomb exploded. Seven policemen were killed and some 60 others injured.
Only one policeman was killed in the strike. Labor leaders were later
executed for the bombing.
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1886 May 5, A bomb exploded on the fourth day
of a workers' strike in Chicago, Ill.
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1886 May 8, Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton
invented the flavor syrup for Coca-Cola. The name for the soft drink came
from his bookkeeper, Frank Robinson. Sales at the soda fountain of Jacob's
Pharmacy averaged 9 drinks a day in the first year.
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1886 May 15, Poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst,
Mass.
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1886 Jun 2, President Cleveland married Frances
Folsom in a White House ceremony. Cleveland's bride, Frances Folsom, was
the 22-year-old daughter of Cleveland's late law partner and friend, Oscar
Folsom. The intimate wedding ceremony took place in the White House Blue
Room with fewer than 40 people present.(To date, Cleveland is the only
president to marry in the Executive Mansion while in office.)
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1886 Jun 10, In New Zealand Mount Tarawera erupted
at Rotorua on the North Island. 155 people were killed and several Maori
and European settlement were destroyed.
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1886 Jun 13, King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned
in Lake Starnberg. Bavarian leaders had conspired to remove Ludvig II
from office and got a doctor, who never saw him, to declare him insane.
He was captured and taken to a mansion on Lake Starnburg where he was
found floating dead with his doctor. In 1996 Greg King authored "The
Mad King."
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1886 Jul 4, 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger
train reached Pt Moody, BC.
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1886 Jul 23, New York saloonkeeper Steve Brodie
claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into
the East River.
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1886 Jul 26, William Gladstone was replaced by
Lord Salisbury as prime minister of England.
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1886 Jul 31, Franz Liszt, composer, died in Bayreuth.
His work included the symphonic poem "Les Preludes" and the
"Faust Symphony." Cosima-von-Bulow was a illegitimate daughter
of Liszt and married to Richard Wagner.
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1886 Aug 31, An earthquake rocked Charleston,
S.C., killing up to 110 people.
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1886 Sep 4, Elusive Apache leader Geronimo surrendered
to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz.
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1886 Sep 9, The Berne International Copyright
Convention took place.
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1886 Oct 10, The tuxedo dinner jacket made its
American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
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1886 Oct 28, The Statue of Liberty on Liberty
Island, formerly Bedloe's Island, in New York Harbor, a gift from the
people of France, was dedicated by President Cleveland. It was originally
named Liberty Enlightening the World and was erected at the entrance of
New York harbor as a symbol of freedom to welcome immigrants and others
from around the world. It became a monument to republicanism and to the
amity between the French and American nations. The 225-ton statue arrived
in 214 packing cases in June 1885 and was assembled on an American-built
pedestal, the money for which was largely raised by Joseph Pulitzer. Later
the 14 line, 1883 poem "New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus was placed
at the base.
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1886 Nov 18, The 21st president of the United
States, Chester A. Arthur, died in New York at age 56.
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1886 Dec 8, The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio, by some
25 labor groups representing about 150,000 members. The first president
of the American Federation of Labor was Samuel Gompers, who had reorganized
the Cigarmakers Union and participated in the founding of the Federation
of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881.
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1886 Dec 17, At a Christmas party, Sam Belle shot
his old enemy Frank West, but was fatally wounded himself.
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1886 Dec 18, Ty [Tyrus Raymond] Cobb, American
baseball player, first man to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame,
was born.
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1886 The last impressionist exhibition was held
in France.
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1886 Jean-Leon Gerome painted "The First
Kiss of the Sun."
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1886 Henri Fantin-Latour painted "Vase With
Autumn Asters."
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1886 Auguste Rodin created his marble sculpture
"The Kiss."
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1886 Medardo Rosso sculpted his "The Golden
Age."
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1886 Baron von Richard Krafft-Ebing published
a work on mental disease.
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1886 Pierre Loti, French naval officer and author,
wrote "An Iceland Fisherman."
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1886 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Kidnapped." His work
also included "Silverado Squatters" based on his experiences
in Calistoga, Ca. When he wrote "Treasure Island," he used Mount
St. Helena and the Palisades for story scenes.
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1886 The musical "The Black Crook" was
named as the first American musical.
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1886 In Galveston, Texas, the Millie Walters House
was built. It was the last of the famous Postoffice St. bordellos.
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1886 Assembly Hall, a gothic-style building built
by the Latter-day Saint pioneers, was completed in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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1886 The three Korbel brothers built a lumber
mill in Guerneville, California. The mill prospered logging redwoods and
specialized in fancy moldings used in many of the Victorian homes of San
Francisco.
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1886 In San Francisco the 13-room Haas-Lilienthal
House was built at 2007 Franklin. Architect Peter R. Schmidt built the
24-room house of fir and redwood for Bertha and William Haas, a mercantile
grocer, for $18,500.
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1886 The Baptist General Convention, a state umbrella
group for Baptist churches, was founded in Texas.
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1886 Agua Caliente, home of warm mineral springs
used by the Sonoma Valley Indians, was founded as the first resort in
Sonoma, Ca.
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1886 David McConnell of New York founded the California
Perfume Company. He found that people were buying his books because of
his free rose oil perfumes. US saleswoman P.F.E. Albee of Winchester,
N.H., became the first Avon Lady. The company was named Avon in 1939.
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1886 Nicholas Hilger began river boat tours on
the Missouri River near Helena at the site of the limestone cliffs named
the Gates of the Mountains by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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1886 Millionaires Pulitzer, McCormick, Rockefeller,
Morgan and others formed the Jekyll Island Club as a vacation resort for
themselves and their families on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia.
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1886 Ybor City was founded next to St. Petersburg
by Spanish, Italian and Cuban cigar workers.
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1886 A board game called "The Game of Baseball"
was made with a lithographed game board by the McLoughlin Brothers.
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1886 The beverages Moxie, Dr Pepper, Coca-Cola
and Hires Root Beer all appeared in bottles.
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1886 Maxwell House coffee was named.
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1886 Pres. Grover Cleveland (49) married Frances
Folsom (21), his ward and the daughter of his late law partner. He became
the first and only president to be married in the White House. Cleveland's
bride, Frances Folsom, was the 22-year-old daughter of Cleveland's late
law partner and friend, Oscar Folsom. For years, the bachelor Cleveland
acted as executor of Folsom's estate, but no one suspected his interest
in Frances until he proposed marriage after her graduation from Wells
College. The intimate wedding ceremony took place in the White House Blue
Room with fewer than 40 people present. They had 2 sons and 3 daughters,
one of whom, Ruth, inspired the Babe Ruth candy bar.
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1886 George Hearst was elected US Senator for
California.
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1886 The Passenger Services Act (PSA) of this
year required that cruise ships stopping in at US ports be built and registered
in the US, be owned by US citizens and manned by American seamen-or that
they stop at a foreign port before returning passengers to their departure
point. It was designed to protect US ferry boats operating on the Great
Lakes from Canadian competition.
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1886 Josephine Garis Cochrane (d.1913), a housewife
from Shelbyville, Ill., patented the first dishwashing machine. She named
it the Garis-Cochran Dishwashing Machine in honor of her father and late
husband.
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1886 Alexander Winton, Cleveland bicycle manufacturer,
made his first running experimental car. He went into the car business
a year later.
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1886 John Stith (Doc) Pemberton, pharmacist in
Atlanta, Georgia, concocted a bath of a dark, sugary syrup meant to be
mixed with carbonated water and sold at the city's soda fountains. This
was the beginning of Coca Cola, which then contained enough cocaine to
give the a drinker a buzz and more caffeine than the drink contains today.
The story is told by Frederick Allen in his book "Secret Formula."
The drink was named by Frank Robinson and he created its signature script
logo.
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1886 Duke's Cameo smokes was patented.
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1886 In Honolulu, Hawaii, a fire destroyed the
original Chinatown.
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1886 Alexander Ostrovsky (b.1823), Russian social
realist playwright, died.
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1886 In Bulgaria the Cathedral of the Assumption
was built in Varna.
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1886 In Germany the firm of Robert Bosch GmbH
was founded. It later became a world leader in automotive electronics.
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1886 London's Soho district of this year was the
setting for Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel "The Secret Agent."
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1886 In Mexico the Tequila San Matias company
in Guadalahara began tequila production.
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1886 The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand,
South Africa, launched the city of Johannesburg. Labor was provided from
Lesotho.
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1886 Vincent Van Gogh made his Paris sojourn.