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List of events
Events from the year 1884 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal government
Events
December 6:
Washington Monument completed.
March 27–29 –
Cincinnati riots of 1884 .
April 21 –
Hammond, Indiana , is incorporated a city.
May 1 – The
eight-hour workday is first proclaimed by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States. May 1, called
May Day or
Labour Day , is now a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.
May 17 –
Alaska becomes a
United States territory .
June 13 –
LaMarcus Adna Thompson opens "Gravity Pleasure
Switchback Railway ", one of the earliest roller coasters, at
Coney Island , New York City.
August 5 – The cornerstone for the
Statue of Liberty is laid on
Bedloe's Island in
New York Harbor .
August 10 – An
earthquake measuring 5.5
(based on the felt area) affected a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock had a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong ). Chimneys were toppled in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Property damage was severe in
Jamaica and
Amityville in New York.
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August 28 – The earliest known photograph of a tornado is taken by F. N. Robinson during
a tornado outbreak in South Dakota .
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 – The
United States Naval War College is established in
Newport, Rhode Island .
November 4 –
1884 United States presidential election :
Democratic Governor of New York
Grover Cleveland defeats
Republican
James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.
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 – The
Washington Monument is completed.
December 16 – The
World Cotton Centennial World's Fair opens in
New Orleans, Louisiana .
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
Harry S. Truman
January 1
January 12
January 26 –
Roy Chapman Andrews , adventurer and naturalist (died
1960 )
February 15 –
Alfred Carlton Gilbert , inventor, athlete, magician, and businessman (died
1961 )
February 18
March 10 –
Stuart Holmes , actor and sculptor (died
1971 )
March 11 –
Sheridan Downey , U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950 (died
1961 )
March 17 –
Alcide Nunez , jazz musician (died
1934 )
March 21 –
George D. Birkhoff , mathematician (died
1944 )
March 22 –
Arthur H. Vandenberg , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951 (died
1951 )
March 31 –
James P. Pope , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1933 to 1939 (died
1966 )
April 1 –
George A. Wilson , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1943 to 1949 (died
1953 )
April 17 –
Leo Frank , factory superintendent and convicted murderer (died
1915 )
April 20 –
Oliver Kirk , bantamweight and featherweight professional boxer (died
1960 )
May 8 –
Harry S. Truman , 33rd
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, 34th
vice president of the United States from January to April 1945 (died 1972)
May 26 –
Charles Winninger , stage and film actor (died
1969 )
June 21
June 22 –
James Rector , Olympic athlete (died
1949 )
July 7 –
J. Roy Hunt , motion picture cameraman and cinematographer (died
1972 )
August 9 –
John S. McCain Sr. , U.S. Navy admiral (died
1945 )
August 27 –
Harry Antrim , actor (died
1967 )
September 1 –
Richard C. Saufley , naval aviation pioneer (died
1916 )
October 7 –
Harold Geiger , aviation pioneer (died
1927 )
October 9 –
Martin Johnson , adventurer and filmmaker (died
1937 )
October 11 –
Eleanor Roosevelt ,
First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (died
1962 )
November 20 –
Loyal Blaine Aldrich , astronomer (died
1965 )
December 2 –
Ruth Draper , actress and
monologist (died
1956 )
Legrand Chapell
Deaths
14 February
13 March –
Leland Stanford Jr. , son of Governor Leland Stanford of
California , in whose memory
Stanford University is founded (born
1868 )
21 March –
Ezra Abbot , Bible scholar (born
1819 )
23 March –
Henry C. Lord , railroad executive (born
1824 )
31 March –
Frederick Leypoldt , bibliographer (born 1835 in Germany)
3 May –
Truman Smith , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1849 to 1854 (born
1791 )
6 May –
Judah P. Benjamin , United States Senator from Louisiana from 1853 till 1861, 1st
Confederate States Attorney General , 2nd
Confederate States Secretary of War , 3rd
Confederate States Secretary of State , died in
Paris ,
France (born
1811 )
13 May –
Cyrus McCormick , inventor (born
1809 )
8 June –
Henry Clay Work , composer (born
1832 )
12 June –
Frank Pidgeon , baseball pitcher (born
1825 )
1 July –
Allan Pinkerton , detective (born 1819)
10 July –
Paul Morphy , chess player (born
1837 )
15 July –
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps , educator and author (born
1793 )
23 August –
LeRoy Pope Walker , 1st
Confederate States Secretary of War (born
1817 )
2 September –
Henry B. Anthony , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1859 to 1884 (born
1815 )
26 September –
John W. Garrett , banker, president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and philanthropist (born
1820 )
6 November –
William Wells Brown , African American writer (born
1814 )
9 December –
Mary Bell Smith , educator, social reformer, and writer. (born
1818 )
Date unknown –
Wendel Bollman , civil engineer (born 1814)
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