May 11, 1888 — Irving Berlin born
Born Israel Isidore Baline, the composer better known as Irving Berlin was 101 years old when he died. His family...
June 29, 2020
The Complete History
August 31, 1888 — Mary Ann Nichols becomes the first victim of Jack the Ripper
He wasn’t the first serial killer, but he was one of the earliest of what we now recognise as the...
June 24, 2020
October 15, 1888 — The “From Hell” letter is mailed
More than a century after the fact, debate regarding nearly every particular of the Jack the Ripper slayings still rages....
June 19, 2020
November 9, 1888 — Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly
The last victim of Jack the Ripper – at least as far as everyone agrees upon – Mary Jane Kelly...
June 14, 2020
April 11, 1890 — Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, dies
Joseph Merrick (often incorrectly called John) was one of the most notoriously deformed human beings ever to live. Among other...
June 9, 2020
December 29, 1890 — The Lakota are massacred at Wounded Knee
Colonel James Forsyth of the US Cavalry led a force of approximately 500 soldiers into the Lakota camp at the...
May 24, 2020
July 23, 1892 — Haile Selassie I born
Born Tafari Makonnen, Haile Selassie I could trace his descent through the royal house of Ethiopia back the 13th century...
April 19, 2020
August 4, 1892 — Lizzie Borden murders her parents
They say she done all of ’em in. They say she done it with an axe. They are, in this...
April 14, 2020
July 10, 1893 — Daniel Hale Williams performs the second successful pericardium surgery
Daniel Hale Williams was one of the first Afro-American men to achieve prominence as a surgeon. He served as the...
April 9, 2020
March 11, 1895 — Shemp Howard of the Thee Stooges is born
Born Samuel Horwitz, Shemp Howard and his brother, Moe Howard, were two of the original Three Stooges, one of the...
April 4, 2020
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