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List of events
Events from the year 1880 in the United States
Incumbents
Events
- February – The journal
Science is first published, with financial backing from
Thomas Edison.
- February 2 – The first electric
streetlight is installed in
Wabash, Indiana.
- March 31 –
Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lighted city in the world.
- May 11 –
Mussel Slough Tragedy: A land dispute between the
Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in
Hanford, California, turns deadly when a gun battle breaks out, leaving 7 dead.
- May 13 – In
Menlo Park, New Jersey,
Thomas Edison performs the first test of his
electric railway.
- May 30 –
League of American Wheelmen is founded in
Newport, Rhode Island.
- June 1 –
United States Census is 50,155,783.
- September 30 – Amateur astronomer
Henry Draper takes the first ever photograph of the
Orion Nebula.
- October 6 – The
University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.
- October 15 – The first blizzard mentioned in
Laura Ingalls Wilder's
The Long Winter sweeps over the prairie in
Dakota Territory.
- November 2 –
U.S. presidential election, 1880:
James Garfield defeats
Winfield S. Hancock.
- November 4 – The first
cash register is patented by
James and John Ritty of
Dayton, Ohio.
- November 22 –
Vaudeville actress
Lillian Russell makes her debut at
Tony Pastor's Theatre in
New York City.
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January–June
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January 6 –
Tom Mix, Western film actor (d.
1940)
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January 14 –
Joseph Warren Beach, poet, novelist, critic and literary scholar (d.
1957)
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January 20 –
Walter W. Bacon, accountant and politician, 60th
Governor of Delaware (d.
1962)
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January 26
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January 28 –
Dorothy Donnelly, actress and lyricist (d.
1928)
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January 29 –
W. C. Fields, born William Claude Dukenfield, comic actor (d.
1946)
- February –
Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams, African American suffragist (d.
1958)
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February 12 –
John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d.
1969)
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February 14 –
Frederick J. Horne, admiral (d.
1959)
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February 16 –
Frank Burke, baseball player (d. 1946)
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February 19 –
Arthur Shepherd, composer (d.
1958)
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February 2 –
Angelina Weld Grimke, African American lesbian journalist and poet (d. 1958)
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March 4 –
Channing Pollock, playwright and critic (d. 1946)
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March 10 –
Broncho Billy Anderson, Western film actor (d.
1971)
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March 11 –
Harry H. Laughlin,
eugenicist (d.
1943)
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March 28 –
Louis Wolheim, character actor (d.
1931)
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April 18 –
Sam Crawford, baseball player (d.
1968)
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May 6 –
William Joseph Simmons, founder of the second
Ku Klux Klan in 1915 (d.
1945)
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June 4 –
Clara Blandick, actress (d.
1962)
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June 9 –
William S. Pye, admiral (d.
1959)
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June 11 –
Jeannette Pickering Rankin, first woman elected to U.S. Congress (d.
1973)
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June 17 –
Carl Van Vechten, writer and photographer (d. 1964)
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June 21 –
Arnold Gesell, developmental psychologist (d.
1961)
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June 24 –
Oswald Veblen, mathematician (d.
1960)
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June 26 –
Mitchell Lewis, actor (d.
1956)
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June 27 –
Helen Keller, campaigner for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
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July–December
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July 10 –
Greye La Spina, born Fanny Greye Bragg, fiction writer (d. 1969)
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July 12 –
Tod Browning, motion picture director, horror film pioneer (d.
1962)
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July 26 –
Jean Clemens, youngest child of
Mark Twain (d.
1909)
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July 30 –
Robert R. McCormick, newspaper publisher (d.
1955)
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August 2 –
Arthur Dove, abstract painter (d. 1946)
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August 10
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August 12 –
Christy Mathewson, baseball player (d.
1925)
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August 22 –
George Herriman, cartoonist (d.
1944)
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September 14 –
Archie Hahn, sprinter (d. 1955)
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September 12 –
H. L. Mencken, journalist (d.
1956)
[2]
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September 24 –
Sarah Knauss,
supercentenarian, all-time longest lived American (d.
1999)
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October 4 –
Damon Runyon, writer (d.
1946)
[3]
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October 31 –
A. J. Rosier, politician (d.
1932)
[4]
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November 1 –
Grantland Rice, sportswriter (d.
1954)
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November 10 –
Jacob Epstein, sculptor (d.
1959 in the United Kingdom)
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November 12 –
Harold Rainsford Stark, admiral (d.
1972)
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December 4 –
Garfield Wood, motorboat racer (d. 1971)
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December 24 –
Johnny Gruelle, cartoonist and children's book author (d.
1938)
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December 31 –
George Marshall,
United States Secretary of State, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 (d. 1959)
Undated
Deaths
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January 1 –
Morris Ketchum, financier (b.
1796)
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January 8 – "
Emperor Norton", eccentric (b. c.
1818 in the United Kingdom)
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January 12 –
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of future President
Chester A. Arthur (b.
1837)
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January 19 –
James Westcott, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1849, died in
Montréal,
Québec,
Canada (b.
1802)
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February 14 –
Samuel G. Arnold, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 to 1863 (b.
1821)
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February 17 –
James Lenox, bibliophile (b.
1800)
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May 4 –
Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (b.
1815)
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May 8 –
Jones Very, Transcendentalist essayist, poet, clergyman and mystic (born
1813)
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June 12 –
Albert G. Brown, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1854 to 1861 (b. 1813)
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June 13 –
James A. Bayard Jr., U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1851 to 1864 (b.
1799)
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June 17 –
James B. Howell, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1870 to 1871 (b.
1816)
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June 28 –
Texas Jack Omohundro, frontier scout, actor and cowboy (b.
1846)
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July 7 –
Lydia Maria Child, novelist and abolitionist (b.
1802)
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July 21 –
Hiram Walden, politician (b. 1800)
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August 9 –
William Bigler, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1856 to 1861 (born
1814)
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August 16 –
Herschel Vespasian Johnson, United States Senator from Georgia from 1863 until 1865. (born
1812)
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August 19 –
James Seddon, 4th
Confederate States Secretary of War (born
1815)
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August 24 –
Ouray, Ute leader (b. c.
1833)
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September 19 –
Lafayette S. Foster, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1855 to 1867 (born
1806)
- October –
Victorio, Chiricahua Apache chief (b. c.
1825)
- November 3 -
Solon Robinson, founder of
Crown Point, Indiana (born
1803)
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November 9 –
Edwin Drake, first American to successfully drill for oil (b.
1819)
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November 11 –
Lucretia Mott, abolitionist and women's rights activist (born
1793)
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December 20 –
Gaspar Tochman, lawyer and Confederate colonel (b. 1797 in Poland)
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December 30 –
Epes Sargent, editor, poet and playwright (b. 1813)
See also
References
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^ Nielsen, Kim E. (2007).
"The Southern Ties of Helen Keller". Journal of Southern History. 73 (4): 783–806.
doi:
10.2307/27649568.
JSTOR
27649568.
Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
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^
Evans, Rod L. (2008).
"Mencken, H. L. (1880–1956)". In
Hamowy, Ronald (ed.).
The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage;
Cato Institute. pp. 324–325.
doi:
10.4135/9781412965811.n196.
ISBN
978-1-4129-6580-4.
LCCN
2008009151.
OCLC
750831024.
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^ "Birth Announcement". The (Manhattan, Kansas) Nationalist. October 7, 1880.
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^ Bartlett, Ichabod Sargent (1918).
History of Wyoming. Vol. 2. Chicago:
S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. pp. 55–56.
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^
"Folder 373: Fain, Harry (interviewer): Eliza Grant, Midwife". Federal Writers Project Papers. UNC Wilson Library Archives.
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