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List of events
Events from the year 1880 in the United States
Incumbents [ edit ]
November 2: James Garfield elected president
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 [ edit ]
Ongoing [ edit ]
January–June [ edit ]
January 6 – Tom Mix , Western film actor (d. 1940 )
January 14 – Joseph Warren Beach , poet, novelist, critic and literary scholar (d. 1957 )
January 20 – Walter W. Bacon , accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962 )
January 26
January 28 – Dorothy Donnelly , actress and lyricist (d. 1928 )
January 29 – W. C. Fields , born William Claude Dukenfield, comic actor (d. 1946 )
February – Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams , African American suffragist (d. 1958 )
February 12 – John L. Lewis , labor union leader (d. 1969 )
February 14 – Frederick J. Horne , admiral (d. 1959 )
February 16 – Frank Burke , baseball player (d. 1946)
February 19 – Arthur Shepherd , composer (d. 1958 )
February 2 – Angelina Weld Grimke , African American lesbian journalist and poet (d. 1958)
March 4 – Channing Pollock , playwright and critic (d. 1946)
March 10 – Broncho Billy Anderson , Western film actor (d. 1971 )
March 11 – Harry H. Laughlin , eugenicist (d. 1943 )
March 28 – Louis Wolheim , character actor (d. 1931 )
April 18 – Sam Crawford , baseball player (d. 1968 )
May 6 – William Joseph Simmons , founder of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915 (d. 1945 )
June 4 – Clara Blandick , actress (d. 1962 )
June 9 – William S. Pye , admiral (d. 1959 )
June 11 – Jeannette Pickering Rankin , first woman elected to U.S. Congress (d. 1973 )
June 17 – Carl Van Vechten , writer and photographer (d. 1964)
June 21 – Arnold Gesell , developmental psychologist (d. 1961 )
June 24 – Oswald Veblen , mathematician (d. 1960 )
June 26 – Mitchell Lewis , actor (d. 1956 )
June 27 – Helen Keller , campaigner for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)[1]
July–December [ edit ]
July 10 – Greye La Spina , born Fanny Greye Bragg, fiction writer (d. 1969)
July 12 – Tod Browning , motion picture director, horror film pioneer (d. 1962 )
July 26 – Jean Clemens , youngest child of Mark Twain (d. 1909 )
July 30 – Robert R. McCormick , newspaper publisher (d. 1955 )
August 2 – Arthur Dove , abstract painter (d. 1946)
August 10
August 12 – Christy Mathewson , baseball player (d. 1925 )
August 22 – George Herriman , cartoonist (d. 1944 )
September 14 – Archie Hahn , sprinter (d. 1955)
September 12 – H. L. Mencken , journalist (d. 1956 )[2]
September 24 – Sarah Knauss , supercentenarian , all-time longest lived American (d. 1999 )
October 4 – Damon Runyon , writer (d. 1946 )[3]
October 31 – A. J. Rosier , politician (d. 1932 )[4]
November 1 – Grantland Rice , sportswriter (d. 1954 )
November 10 – Jacob Epstein , sculptor (d. 1959 in the United Kingdom )
November 12 – Harold Rainsford Stark , admiral (d. 1972 )
December 4 – Garfield Wood , motorboat racer (d. 1971)
December 24 – Johnny Gruelle , cartoonist and children's book author (d. 1938 )
December 31 – George Marshall , United States Secretary of State , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 (d. 1959)
Undated [ edit ]
January 1 – Morris Ketchum , financier (b. 1796 )
January 8 – "Emperor Norton ", eccentric (b. c.1818 in the United Kingdom )
January 12 – Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur , wife of future President Chester A. Arthur (b. 1837 )
January 19 – James Westcott , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1849, died in Montréal , Québec , Canada (b. 1802 )
February 14 – Samuel G. Arnold , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 to 1863 (b. 1821 )
February 17 – James Lenox , bibliophile (b. 1800 )
May 4 – Edward Clark , Confederate Governor of Texas (b. 1815 )
May 8 – Jones Very , Transcendentalist essayist, poet, clergyman and mystic (born 1813 )
June 12 – Albert G. Brown , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1854 to 1861 (b. 1813)
June 13 – James A. Bayard Jr. , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1851 to 1864 (b. 1799 )
June 17 – James B. Howell , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1870 to 1871 (b. 1816 )
June 28 – Texas Jack Omohundro , frontier scout, actor and cowboy (b. 1846 )
July 7 – Lydia Maria Child , novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802 )
July 21 – Hiram Walden , politician (b. 1800)
August 9 – William Bigler , U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1856 to 1861 (born 1814 )
August 16 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson , United States Senator from Georgia from 1863 until 1865. (born 1812 )
August 19 – James Seddon , 4th Confederate States Secretary of War (born 1815 )
August 24 – Ouray , Ute leader (b. c. 1833 )
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 )
November 9 – Edwin Drake , first American to successfully drill for oil (b. 1819 )
November 11 – Lucretia Mott , abolitionist and women's rights activist (born 1793 )
December 20 – Gaspar Tochman , lawyer and Confederate colonel (b. 1797 in Poland)
December 30 – Epes Sargent , editor, poet and playwright (b. 1813)
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ "Birth Announcement". The (Manhattan, Kansas) Nationalist. October 7, 1880.
^ Bartlett, Ichabod Sargent (1918). History of Wyoming . Vol. 2. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company . pp. 55–56.
^ "Folder 373: Fain, Harry (interviewer): Eliza Grant, Midwife" . Federal Writers Project Papers . UNC Wilson Library Archives.
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