Explore 352 historical events from 1880–1889.
Oliver Leonard Kirk was an American bantamweight and featherweight professional boxer who won two gold medals in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Beatrice, Nebras…
Oliver Kirk, American boxer (died 1960)
Daniel Varoujan was an Armenian poet of the early 20th century. At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk governm…
Daniel Varoujan, Armenian poet and educator (died 1915)
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he became one of Sigmund Freud's closest collaborators, served as secretary of the Vienna Psychoan…
Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)
Olof Sandborg was a Swedish stage and film actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1962.
Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor (died 1965)
Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, styled Viscount Curzon from 1900 to 1929, was a British naval officer, Member of Parliament, and racing driver and promoter. In th…
Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (died 1964)
John Abram Boland Sr. was an American politician and businessman from South Dakota. He was an early supporter of Mount Rushmore and served as treasurer for its construction costs b…
John Boland, American politician (died 1958)
Richard Romer Claude Baggallay was an English army officer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1912 and 1919 and captained the side in 1913, 1914 an…
Richard Baggallay, English army officer and cricketer (died 1975)
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender was a Native American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball during the 1900s and 1910s. In 1911, Bender tied a record by p…
Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (died 1954)
Valdemar Einar Psilander was a Danish silent film actor, who was the highest-paid performer of his period and received critical acclaim as the greatest male lead during the golden …
Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (died 1917)
Oskar Rosenfeld was an Austrian-Jewish writer killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (died 1944)
David Curtiss Munson was an American athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
David Munson, American runner (died 1953)
Manuel Pérez y Curis was a Uruguayan poet, born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher (died 1920)
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, also known by the name "Elizabeth Abbott," was a Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer, and wife of author George Frederick Abbott.
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (died 1957)
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. …
Harry S
Corrado Gini was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of o…
Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer (died 1965)
Max Brod was an Israeli author, composer and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka and composer Leoš Janáček.
Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer (died 1968)
Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his se…
Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd and 4th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1948)
Siegmund Glücksmann was a German-Jewish socialist politician. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most prominent figures of the German minority socialist movement in Poland, …
Siegmund Glücksmann, German soldier and politician (died 1942)
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revi…
Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (born 1824)
Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902…
Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (born 1809)
Moses Fleetwood Walker, sometimes nicknamed Fleet Walker, was an American professional baseball catcher credited with being the first black man to play major league baseball. A nat…
Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his
William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most famous figures of the American Old West, Cody began perfor…
Buffalo Bill's first Buffalo Bill's Wild West opens in Omaha, Nebraska
Krakatoa, also transcribed Krakatau, is a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The caldera is part of a volcan…
Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people
Alexander III was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed…
Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia