What Happened In August 1888 In History

Historical Events for August, 1888

• 5th » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• 21st » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs I or William Seward Burroughs.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1888

• 5th » Victor Francen, Belgian-French actor (d. 1977)
• 6th » Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer (d. 1952)
• 10th » Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (d. 1940)
• 13th » John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the History of television known as television (d. 1946)
• 13th » Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
• 16th » T. E. Lawrence, Welsh colonel (d. 1935)
• 16th » Armand J. Piron, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1943)
• 17th » Monty Woolley, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
• 20th » Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd List of Presidents of Vietnam named President of Vietnam (d. 1980)
• 29th » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)

Famous Deaths for August 1888

• 5th » Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant (b. 1846)
• 16th » John Pemberton, American chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
• 22nd » Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician (b. 1817)
• 24th » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 28th » Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
• 31st » Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)

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