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List of events
Events from the year 1886 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
October 28:
Statue of Liberty dedicated.
February 6–9 –
Seattle riot of 1886 : Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.
February 14 – The first train load of
oranges leaves
Los Angeles via the
transcontinental railroad .
March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20
African Americans are killed in
Mississippi .
April 24 – Father
Augustine Tolton , the first
Roman Catholic priest from the U.S. to identify himself publicly as
African American , is ordained in
Rome .
May 1 – A
general strike begins, which escalates on May 4 into the
Haymarket affair in Chicago and eventually wins the
eight-hour day for workers.
May 8 – Pharmacist Dr.
John Stith Pemberton invents a
carbonated beverage that will be named '
Coca-Cola '.
May 17 –
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad : The
U.S. Supreme Court rules that
corporations have the same rights as living persons.
May 29 – Pharmacist
John Pemberton begins to advertise
Coca-Cola (advertisement in the
Atlanta Journal ).
June 2 – U.S. President
Grover Cleveland marries
Frances Folsom in the
White House , becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
June 9 – The
Stoughton Musical Society 's centennial is celebrated.
July 23 –
Steve Brodie is reported to have made a jump from the
Brooklyn Bridge , a claim subsequently disputed.
August 20 – A massive
hurricane demolishes the town of
Indianola, Texas .
August 31 – The 6.9–7.3 Mw
Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme ). Sixty people are killed and damage is estimated at
$ 5–6 million.
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 10 – The English style of
black tie men's formal evening dress is introduced to the U.S. by James Brown Potter at
Tuxedo Park, New York , hence its usual American description as "tux(edo)".
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October 28 – The
Statue of Liberty in
New York Harbor is dedicated by U.S. President
Grover Cleveland .
Undated – Arthur Hinds & Company, later
Barnes & Noble booksellers, is founded in
New York City .
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 3 –
John G. Fletcher , poet and author (died
1950 )
January 11 –
Chester Conklin , comic film actor (died
1971 )
January 28 –
Sam McDaniel , African-American actor (died
1962 )
February 27 –
Hugo Black , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971 (died 1971)
March 6
March 7 –
Jessie Coles Grayson , African American contralto and film actress (died
1953 )
March 8 –
Edward Calvin Kendall , biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 (died
1972 )
March 9 –
Robert L. Eichelberger , general (died
1961 )
March 21 –
Arthur Grover Rider , painter (died
1975 )
March 24 –
Edward Weston , photographer (died
1958 )
April 2 –
Reginald Barker , film director (died
1945 )
April 3 –
Dooley Wilson , African American drummer, singer and actor (died
1953 )
April 8 –
Margaret Ayer Barnes , playwright, novelist and short-story writer (died
1967 )
April 26 –
Ma Rainey , born Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, African American blues singer (died
1939 )
May 26 –
Al Jolson , entertainer (died
1950 )
June 2 –
Grover Whalen , politician (died
1962 )
June 3 –
Benjamin McCandlish , Governor of Guam (died
1975 )
June 6
June 27
June 29 –
Robert C. Giffen , admiral (d.
1962 )
July 15 –
Arthur L. Bristol , admiral (d.
1942 )
July 16 –
Frank Hastings Griffin , engineer (d.
1974 )
September 11 –
John H. Hester , general (d.
1976 )
September 28 –
Alice Hollister , silent film actress (d.
1973 )
October 30 –
Zoë Akins , dramatist (died
1958 )
November 9
December 5 –
Rose Wilder Lane , journalist and libertarian (died
1968 )
December 9 –
Clarence Birdseye , founder of the modern frozen food industry (died
1956 )
December 18 –
Ty Cobb , baseball outfielder (died
1961 )
December 19 –
Charles M. Cooke, Jr. , admiral (died
1970 )
December 25 –
Kid Ory , jazz trombonist and bandleader (died
1973 )
Deaths
Emily Dickinson
Chester A. Arthur
January 13 –
Thomas Wakeman , founder of the first Sioux Indian YMCA (born
1846 )
January 22 –
James T. Farley , U.S. Senator from California from 1879 to 1885. (born
1829 )
January 26 –
David Rice Atchison , U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1844 to 1855 (born
1807 )
February 2 –
David Hunter , Union Army general (born
1802 )
February 9 –
Winfield Scott Hancock , Civil War Union general and political candidate (born
1824 )
February 12 –
Horatio Seymour , 18th
governor of New York ,
Democratic Party nominee for
President of the United States in the
presidential election of 1868 (born
1810 )
March 8 –
John Franklin Miller , U.S. Senator from California from 1881 to 1886 (born
1831 )
March 9 –
Jerome B. Chaffee , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (born
1825 )
March 13 –
Austin Flint , co-founder of
Buffalo Medical College and president of the American Medical Association (born
1812 )
April 3 –
Arthur Pember , journalist, first president of
The Football Association (born
1835 in the United Kingdom )
April 27 –
H. H. Richardson , architect (born
1838 )
May 15 –
Emily Dickinson , poet (born
1830 )
May 21 –
Stephen Pearl Andrews , anarchist and proponent of
pantarchy (born 1812)
June 26 –
David Davis , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1877 to 1883 (born
1815 )
July 16 –
Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (born
1821 )
August 4 –
Samuel J. Tilden , 25th Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876 and 1876 Democratic presidential candidate (born
1814 )
August 5 –
Robert Allen , Union army brigadier general (born
1811 )
August 10 –
John W. Stevenson , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1871 to 1877 (born 1812)
August 30 –
Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , politician (born
1836 )
October 10 –
David Levy Yulee , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1851 and from 1855 to 1861 (born
1810 )
November 18 –
Chester A. Arthur , 21st
president of the United States from 1881 to 1885, 20th
vice president of the United States from March to September 1881 (born
1829 )
November 21 –
Charles Francis Adams Sr. ,
United States Minister to the United Kingdom , son of
John Quincy Adams (born
1807 )
December 26 –
John A. Logan , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1871 to 1877 (born
1826 )
See also
References
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