X-Nico

unusual facts about United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1888



1888–89 Aston Villa F.C. season

The 'Invincibles' from Lancashire also ended Villa's bid to win every single home game, with a 2–0 win at Perry Barr in Villa's last home fixture.

1941 World Series

Meyer Berger of The New York Times, then its local color reporter, covered the events in "Casey in the Box", a poem derived from the 1888 classic "Casey at the Bat".

1978 in Israel

28 February – Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin (born 1888) Russian (Belarus)-born Orthodox rabbi, founded the Encyclopedia Talmudit.

Adelaide River railway station

The station officially opened in 1889, following the completion of the bridge across the Adelaide River in December 1888.

Adolf von Harnack

In 1886 Harnack was called to the University of Marburg and in 1888, in spite of violent opposition from the conservative church authorities, to Berlin.

André Perchicot

André Perchicot (August 9, 1888 - May 3, 1950) was a French cyclist who won the bronze medal at the 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's Sprint in Newark, New Jersey and the 1912 French National Track Championships.

Anglo-South American Bank

The Commercial Bank traced its ancestry through the Cortés Commercial and Banking Company back to Banco de Nicaragua, founded in Managua in 1888.

Azriel

Asrael is an opera by Alberto Franchetti that premiered in 1888

Bartley Campbell

Campbell was declared insane in September 1886 and died in the State Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, New York on July 30, 1888.

Belva Ann Lockwood

She ran in the presidential elections of 1884 and 1888.

Carlos Washington Lencinas

Carlos Washington Lencinas (November 13, 1888 - November 10, 1929) was an Argentine politician and governor of Mendoza, Argentina.

Cecil Chisholm

Thomas Cecil Chisholm (1888 - 24 November 1961) was a British journalist, publisher and author noted for his 1914 biography of Sir John French, and books on Repertory theatre, Economics, and Business.

Charles William King

Charles William King (5 September 1818 – 25 March 1888) was a British Victorian writer and collector of gems.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

David Webster

David L. Webster (1888–1976), American physicist in early X-ray theory

Duke of Lauenburg

After the death of the last ruling duke, William I (who after 1870 was also German emperor), in 1888, the now purely honorific title was granted to Otto von Bismarck after his dismissal as Chancellor of Germany in 1890.

Elmina Shepard Taylor

In 1888, Taylor and others met with Susan B. Anthony in Seneca Falls, New York and participated in the founding of the National Council of Women, an organization dedicated to promoting the rights of women.

Embudo, New Mexico

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) gauging station at Embudo, to measure the flow of the Rio Grande, was the first (USGS) stream gauging station and was established by John Wesley Powell in 1888.

Erythroxylum novogranatense

It was introduced in Bogor (West Java, Indonesia) in 1875, and by 1888 large quantities of seed were already being distributed in South-East Asia.

Filadelfo Simi

In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).

Francena H. Arnold

Francena Harriet Long was born Sept. 9, 1888, on a farm near Literberry, Illinois, to James Harvey Long and Hannah Cox Long.

George Scott Robertson

In 1888, he was attached to the Indian Foreign Office and assigned as agency surgeon in Gilgit, in northern Pakistan.

Gerhard Ritter

Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888 in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967 in Freiburg) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956.

German Free-minded Party

The economists Ludwig Bamberger and Georg von Siemens, as well as the social liberal politician Eugen Richter were among the prime movers of the fusion, in the view of the coming accession of considered "liberal" Crown Prince Frederick William to the throne (which took place only in 1888).

Giuseppe Verdi Monument

He was the founding editor of the Il Progresso Italo-Americano Italian-American newspaper, and used its pages to raise funds for this and several other memorials including the Columbus Circle monument, an 1888 monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Square Park, a monument to Giovanni da Verrazzano (1909) and the 1921 monument to Dante Alighieri in Dante Square.

Guy Rose

On September 12, 1888, Rose enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris and studied with Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre, Lucien Doucet and Jean-Paul Laurens while in Paris.

Harold Burton

Harold Hitz Burton (1888–1964), mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, member of the United States Senate and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Henry F. Lippitt

He served on the Governor's staff with the rank of colonel in 1888-1889 and was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (now the National Textile Association) in the latter year.

Herbert B. Maxson

He moved to Nevada in 1888, where he was elected county surveyor of Washoe County and was later appointed to the federal deputy surveyor post.

Hermann Pünder

Hermann Josef Pünder (born 1 April 1888 in Trier; died 3 October 1976 in Fulda) was a German politician in the German Centre Party and the Christian Democratic Union.

Ivar Skjånes

Ivar Skjånes (5 March 1888, Kolvereid – 5 June 1975, Trondheim) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Jacob D. Leighty

He served as a member of the State house of representatives from 1886 to 1888, and later was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1897).

James Taylor Ellyson

In his long political career, he went on to serve in the Senate of Virginia, as mayor of Richmond (1888–1894), and for twelve years (1906–1918) as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

Ligertwood

George Ligertwood (1888-1967), Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia

Mildred Barnes Bliss

Bliss was born in New York City on September 9, 1879, the daughter of U.S. Congressman Demas Barnes (1827–1888), and Anna Dorinda Blaksley Barnes (1851–1935).

Natalie of Serbia

In 1888, Queen Natalie and her son left for another long foreign stay in Wiesbaden - obviously without intention to return to Belgrade.

Pedro Moncayo

Pedro Moncayo y Esparza (29 June 1807 in Ibarra, Ecuador — February 1888 in Valparaíso, Chile) was an Ecuadorian journalist and politician.

Pen computing

1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus device for capturing handwriting.

Quenstedtite

It was first reported in 1888 for an occurrence in Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile and named by G. Linck in 1889 for the German mineralogist F. A. von Quenstedt.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Sampson Simson

In 1888, the New York State Supreme Court decided that the sum, plus thirty years' interest, was to be paid to the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem.

Seth C. Moffatt

He was re-elected in 1886 to the 50th Congress, serving from March 4, 1885 until his death at the age of forty-six in Washington, D.C. Henry W. Seymour was elected on February 14, 1888, to fill the vacancy caused by his death.

Stefan Lux

Stefan Lux (November 11, 1888 Malacky – July 3, 1936 Geneva) was a Slovak Jewish journalist, and a Czechoslovak citizen, who committed suicide in the general assembly of the League of Nations during its session on July 3, 1936.

Strowger

Almon Brown Strowger, who invented the principle of the Strowger switch in 1888

Travels in Arabia Deserta

Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) is a travel book written by Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 – 1926) who was an English poet, writer, and traveller.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1974

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1974 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 4, 1974.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1984

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1984 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1984.

Urushibara

Urushibara Mokuchu (漆原木虫) (1888-1953), given name Yoshijirô, a Japanese print maker

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.


see also

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1888

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1888 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1888.