1884 in the United States: Difference between revisions

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Events from the year '''1884 in the United States'''.

== Incumbents ==

 

* [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]: ''vacant''

* [[United States Congress|Congress]]: [[48th United States Congress|48th]]

 

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* [[Lieutenant Governor of California]]: [[John Daggett]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut]]: [[George G. Sumner]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Florida]]: [[Livingston W. Bethel]] (no political party)

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Illinois]]: [[William J. Campbell (Illinois politician)|William J. Campbell]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Iowa]]: [[Orlando H. Manning]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Kansas]]: [[David Wesley Finney]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]])

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Ohio]]: [[Rees G. Richards]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) (until January 14), [[John George Warwick]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]) (starting January 14)

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania]]: [[Chauncey Forward Black]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])

* [[Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina]]: [[John Calhoun Sheppard]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])

* [[Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee]]: Benjamin F. Alexander ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]])

[[File:Washington Monument Dusk Jan 2006.jpg|thumb|December 6: [[Washington Monument]] completed.]]

* March 27–29 – [[Cincinnati riots of 1884]].

* May 1 – The [[Eight hour day|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]].

* August 5 – The cornerstone for the [[Statue of Liberty]] is laid on [[Bedloe's Island]] in [[New York Harbor]].

* August 10 &ndash; An [[earthquake]] measuring 5.5 {{M|fa|link=y}} (based on the felt area) affected a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock had a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VII (''Very strong''). Chimneys were toppled in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Property damage was severe in [[Jamaica, Queens|Jamaica]] and [[Amityville, New York|Amityville]] in New York.<ref>{{citation|last1=Stover|first1=C.W.|last2=Coffman|first2=J.L.|title=Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised)|series=U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY0KAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]]|pages=314–316}}</ref>

* September 5 – [[Staten Island Academy]] is founded.

* October 6 – The [[United States Naval War College]] is established in [[Newport, Rhode Island]].

* December 1 – [[American Old West]]: Near [[Frisco, New Mexico]], deputy sheriff [[Elfego Baca]] holds off a gang of 80 Texan [[cowboy]]s who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys were terrorizing the area's [[Hispanic|Hispanos]] and Baca was working against them).

* December 6 – The [[Washington Monument]] is completed.

 

===Undated===

 

== Sport ==

 

==Births==

** [[Louis Horst]], choreographer, composer, pianist (died [[1964 in the United States|1964]])

** [[Texas Guinan]], actress and producer (died [[1933 in the United States|1933]])

* January 26 – [[Roy Chapman Andrews]], adventurer and naturalist (died [[1960 in the United States|1960]])

* February 15 – [[Alfred Carlton Gilbert]], inventor, athlete, magician, and businessman (died [[1961 in the United States|1961]])

** [[Mary M. Crawford]], surgeon (died [[1972 in the United States|1972]])

** [[Burt Mustin]], character actor (died [[1977 in the United States|1977]])

* March 10 – [[Stuart Holmes]], actor and sculptor (died [[1971 in the United States|1971]])

* March 11 – [[Sheridan Downey]], U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950 (died [[1961 in the United States|1961]])

* March 21 – [[George David Birkhoff|George D. Birkhoff]], mathematician (died [[1944 in the United States|1944]])

* March 22 – [[Arthur H. Vandenberg]], U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951 (died [[1951 in the United States|1951]])

* April 1 – [[George A. Wilson]], U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1943 to 1949 (died [[1953 in the United States|1953]])

* April 17 – [[Leo Frank]], factory superintendent and convicted murderer (died [[1915 in the United States|1915]])

* May 26 – [[Charles Winninger]], stage and film actor (died [[1969 in the United States|1969]])

* June 22 – [[James Rector]], Olympic athlete (died [[1949 in the United States|1949]])

* August 9 – [[John S. McCain Sr.]], U.S. Navy admiral (died [[1945 in the United States|1945]])

* October 9 – [[Martin and Osa Johnson|Martin Johnson]], adventurer and filmmaker (died [[1937 in the United States|1937]])

* October 11 – [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[First Lady of the United States]] from 1933 to 1945 (died [[1962 in the United States|1962]])

* December 2 – [[Ruth Draper]], actress and [[monologist]] (died [[1956 in the United States|1956]])

 

==Deaths==

* [[26 September]] – [[John W. Garrett]], banker, president of the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] and philanthropist (born [[1820 in the United States|1820]])

* [[6 November]] – [[William Wells Brown]], African American writer (born [[1814 in the United States|1814]])

 

==See also==

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{{Timeline of United States history}}

 

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