1882

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1882 was the 11th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

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Government

Thomas Walker in 1895

Religion

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Births

Robert I. Ingalls

Graduations

  • W. W. Rose graduated from Ogdensburg Academy in Ogdensburg, New York.
  • Robert Kerr graduated from the National Normal University in Lebanon, Ohio.

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In 1882, polygamy was made a felony by the Edmunds Act as passed by the U.S. Congress. The Knights of Columbus were established. Old West outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford. Thomas Edison flipped the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. Great Comet of 1882 appeared suddenly on a September morning.

Notable books published in 1882 included The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope and The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. Notable music composed in 1882 included "The Skaters' Waltz" by Emile Waldteufel, comic opera Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan, Voices of Spring by Johann Strauss, and opera Parsifal by Richard Wagner.

Notable births in 1882 included actor Noah Beery, author A. A. Milne, writer Virginia Woolf, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, author James Joyce, actor John Barrymore, composer Igor Stravinsky, painter Edward Hopper, blues singer Ma Rainey, rocket scientist Robert Goddard, and actor Bela Lugosi. Notable deaths included author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, outlaw Jesse James, sanitary engineer George Jennings, naturalist Charles Darwin, assassin Charles Guiteau (executed), gunfighter Billy Claiborne, and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

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