Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the intergovernmental organization established…
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre.
Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in…
Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the N…
Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, la…
Richard Glücks, German SS officer (died 1945)
Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman was a Royal Netherlands Navy officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command nav…
Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (died 1942)
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat.
Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1952)
Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova was a Russian-Soviet avant-garde artist, painter and designer.
Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and academic (died 1924)
Corinne Anita Loos was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her…
Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1981)
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1951)
António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to po…
António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1970)
Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat, better known by the name Ki Hajar Dewantara since 1922, was a leading Indonesian independence movement activist, writer, columnist, politician, an…
Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian philosopher, academic, and politician (died 1959)
Beulah Bondi was an American character actress; she often played eccentric mothers and later grandmothers and wives, although she was known for numerous other roles. She began her …
Beulah Bondi, American actress (died 1981)
Gottfried Erik Fuchs, also known as Godfrey Fuchs, was a German Olympic footballer. He scored a then-world record 10 goals for the Germany national team in a 16–0 win against Russi…
Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (died 1972)
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman was a senior-ranking American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death in 1967. From 1932 to 1939, Spellman …
Francis Spellman, American cardinal (died 1967)
Herbert Wilfred Taylor was a South African cricketer who played 42 Test matches for his country including 18 as captain of the side. Specifically a batsman, he was an expert on the…
Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (died 1973)
Viktor Puskar VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander (Colonel) during the Estonian War of Independence.
Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (died 1943)
Paul Nash was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the…
Paul Nash, British painter (died 1946)
Abelardo Rodríguez Luján, commonly known as Abelardo L. Rodríguez was a Mexican military officer, businessman and politician who served as Substitute President of Mexico from 1932 …
Abelardo L
Otto Heinrich Frank was a German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 and advised on its later theatrical and c…
Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank (died 1980)
Dorothy Gibson was an American actress, socialite and artist's model, active in the early 20th century. She survived the sinking of the Titanic and starred in the first motion pict…
Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (died 1946)
Alfonso Reyes Ochoa was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and has been acclaimed as one of the greatest auth…
Alfonso Reyes, Mexican author (died 1959)
Thomas Midgley Jr. was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better k…
Thomas Midgley Jr
Nguyễn Khắc Hiếu (阮克孝), pen name Tản Đà was a Vietnamese poet. His pen name is a combination of Tản from Tản Viên Mountain and Đà from Đà River
Tản Đà, Vietnamese poet and author (died 1939)
Henry Barber Richardson was an American archer. He won two Olympic bronze medals. Richardson was the first archer to win medals at two different editions of the Olympic Games as we…
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