1886
1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar)
EventsJanuary 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 ? Complete darkness for 10 minutes in Oshkosh, WisconsinApril 25 - Easter occurs on latest possible date (next in 1943) May 1 - the start of the general strike in the United States which escalated into Haymarket Riot and eventually won the eight-hour workday in the U.S. May 4 - Emil Berliner started working on inventing the gramophone. May 8 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named "Coca-Cola." May 29 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal). June 2 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the first and only president to wed in the executive mansion. June 10 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera volcano in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces. July 25 ? Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge June 13 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia. August 4 ? William Ewart Gladstone fails to secure enough support for the Irish Home Rule in the British parliament August 20 - A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas August 31 - Huge Earthquake hits South Carolina USA. Earthquake rods installed afterwards... Much Damage. September 4 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.October 28 - In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. November 30 - Folies Bergère stages its first revue. Britain annexes Burma Etna erupts Piccadilly Circus William Grant & Sons founded
BirthsJanuary January 2 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" (d. 1938) January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (d. 1947) January 25 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
February February 8 - Charles Ruggles, actor (d. 1970) February 27 - Hugo Black, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1971)
March March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, painter, graphic artist and poet (d. 1980) March 15 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary March 18 - Edward Everett Horton, actor (d. 1970) March 24 - Edward Weston, photographer (d. 1958) March 25 - Patriarch Athenagoras (d. 1972) March 27 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (d. 1969) March 27 - Ludwig Athenagoras Horton, (d. 1972))
April April 26 - Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
May May 2 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (d. 1956) May 17 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain May 20 - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d. 1971) May 26 - Al Jolson (d. 1950)
June June 7 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer June 18 - George Mallory, climber lost on Mt. Everest
July July 12 - Jean Hersholt, Danish born actor (d. 1956)
AugustAugust 27 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
September September 16 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
October October 6 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor October 16 - David Ben-Gurion, first prime minister of Israel (d. 1973)
November November 1 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
December December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, author, reporter (d. 1968) December 8 - Diego Rivera, painter December 12 - Owen Moore, actor (d. 1939) December 18 - Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1961) December 25 - Kid Ory, jazz musician (d. 1973) Charles Williams - British author Jacques Majorelle - French painter (d. 1962)
Deaths January 17 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer January 26 - David Rice Atchison, American politician May 15 - Emily Dickinson, poet June 13 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845) July 1 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich. German geologist July 31 - Franz Liszt August 16 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa - Indian spiritual figure September 14 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard
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