What Happened In December 1888 - Historical Events 1888 December

Historical Events for December, 1888

9th » Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
18th » Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park e.g Mesa Verde.

3rd » Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-Irish rabbi (d. 1959)
6th » Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
7th » Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957)
7th » Hamilton Fish III, American captain and politician (d. 1991)
15th » Maxwell Anderson, American journalist and playwright (d. 1959)
16th » Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
16th » Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (d. 1967)
18th » Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer (d. 1971)
18th » Robert Moses, American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (d. 1981)
19th » Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1963)
20th » Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (d. 1980)
20th » Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager (d. 1958)
22nd » J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (d. 1972)
26th » Marius Canard, French orientalist and historian (d. 1982)
27th » Thea von Harbou, German actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 1954)
28th » F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1931)

2nd » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
3rd » Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
31st » Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)