Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Bertha Benz was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor Carl Benz. On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive a…
Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the…
An adding machine is a class of mechanical calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. Consequently, the earliest adding machines were often designed to read in p…
The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
William James Minter, was a footballer, trainer, manager and assistant secretary at Tottenham Hotspur. He scored 101 goals for Tottenham, and was for a time the top scorer for the …
Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (died 1940)
Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock, known as Herms Niel, was a German composer of military songs and marches.
Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (died 1954)
Georges-Philias Vanier was a Canadian military officer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 19th governor general of Canada from 1959 to 1967, the first Quebecker and second …
Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (died 1967)
Pe Maung Tin was a scholar of Pali and Buddhism and educator in Myanmar, formerly Burma. Born to an Anglican family at Pauktaw, Insein Township, Rangoon, he was the fifth child of …
Pe Maung Tin, Burma-based scholar and educator (died 1973)
Florence La Badie was an American-Canadian actress in the early days of the silent film era. She was a major star between 1911 and 1917. Her career was at its height when she died …
Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (died 1917)
Walter Daniel John Tull was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent. He played as an inside forward and half back for Clapton, Tottenh…
Walter Tull, English footballer and soldier (died 1918)
Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist, often regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antige…
Michael Heidelberger, American immunologist (died 1991)
John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.…
John Crowe Ransom, American poet, critic, and academic (died 1974)
Francesco Baracca was Italy's top fighter ace of World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories. The emblem he wore side by side on his plane of a black horse prancing on it…
Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (died 1918)
Rolf de Maré, sometimes called Rolf de Mare, was a Swedish art collector and leader of the Ballets Suédois in Paris in 1920–25. In 1931 he founded the world's first research center…
Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (died 1964)
Irving Berlin was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Academy…
Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (died 1989)
Willis Augustus "Ching" Lee Jr. was a vice admiral of the United States Navy during World War II. Lee commanded the American ships during the second night of the Naval Battle of Gu…
Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (died 1945)
Maximilian Raoul Steiner was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers.
Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor (died 1971)
Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who is known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth. She al…
Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (died 1993)
Archibald Alphonso Alexander was an American architect and engineer. He was an early African-American graduate of the University of Iowa and the first to graduate from the Universi…
Archie Alexander, American mathematician and engineer (died 1958)
Alfred Percy "Tich" Freeman was an English first-class cricketer. A leg spin bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and England, he is the only man to take 300 wickets in an English s…
Tich Freeman, English cricketer (died 1965)
Hanna Adamauna Barysiewicz, Belarusian: Ганна Адамаўна Барысевiч, Russian: Анна Адамовна Борисевич was the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of …
Hanna Barysiewicz, the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of Records
Royal Raymond Rife was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.
Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (died 1971)
Adriaan Roland Holst was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. He was nominated for the Nobel…
Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer (died 1976)
Zachariah Davis Wheat, nicknamed "Buck", was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left fielder from 1909 to 1927, most notably as…
Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer (died 1972)
William Miles Malleson was an English actor and dramatist, best remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Toward the end of his career, he also …
Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (died 1969)
Louis Edmond Durey was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers.
Louis Durey, French composer (died 1979)