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1884

Events of 1884

January 4 - The Fabian Society is founded in London.
January 18 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Iesu Grist (Jesus Christ) Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.
February 1 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
February 7 - Diocese of Madrid-Alcalá is founded.
March 13 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).

April 22 - Colchester earthquake, England; the UK's most destructive.
May 1 - the first proclamation of eight-hour workday by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States. May 1st, called May Day or Labour Day, is now a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.
June 4 - Estonian flag is consecrated as the flag of the Estonian Students Society.

July 5 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
July 23 - Today's Courier recorded the first tennis tournaments held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall, Leamington Spa, England.
August 5 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
August 10 - A severe earthquake, magnitude 5.5, (intensity VII) occurs off the northeast Atlantic coast. The area affected extends from central Virginia to southern Maine, and west as far as Cleveland.
September 5 - Staten Island Academy is founded.

October - International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian.
October 6 - United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island.
October 18 - University of Wales, Bangor (UK) founded.
October 22 - The first woman receives a degree from an Irish university. The degree is granted by the Royal University of Ireland.
November 1 - The Irish Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Thurles, Ireland.
November 2 - Timişoara is the first town of Europe with streets illuminated by electric light.
November 4 - United States presidential election: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.
November 15 - The Berlin Conference which regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends February 26, 1885).
November 25 - British surgeon John Dooglee makes the first successful removal of a brain tumor.
December 1 - American Old West - Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them).
December 6 - Washington Monument was completed.
December 16 - World Cotton Centennial World's Fair opens in New Orleans, Louisiana.

January 12 - Texas Guinan, American vaudeville performer (d. 1933)
January 13 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and comedian (d. 1966)
January 21 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
January 23 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956)
January 28 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1962)
January 31 - Theodor Heuss, German politician and publicist (d. 1963)
February 10 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
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February 13 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete and inventor (d. 1961)
February 14 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
February 16 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951)
February 18 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
February 22 - Abe Attell, American boxer (d. 1970)
March 6 - R. Williams Parry, Welsh poet (d. 1956)
March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
March 17 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz musician (d. 1934)
March 24 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
March 25 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
March 26 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
April 4 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943)
April 6 - Walter Huston, actor (d. 1950)
April 12 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)
May 1 - Henry Norwest, Canadian World War I sniper (d. 1918)
May 8 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972)
May 10 - Olga Petrova, English-born actress (d. 1977)
May 14 - Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (d. 1969)
May 27 - Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
May 28 - Edvard Beneš, Austrian politician (d. 1948)

July 12 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
July 15 - Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Thailand's First Prime Minister (d. 1948)
July 18 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
July 23 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
August 8 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
August 10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
August 23 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
August 30 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
September 17 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
September 24 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish soldier, statesman and the second President of Turkey.(d. 1973)
September 24 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
October 7 - Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
October 11 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
November 20 - Norman Thomas, American social reformer (d. 1968)
December 3 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
December 30 - Tojo Hideki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
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