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List of events
Events from the year 1883 in the United States .
Incumbents Events May 24: Brooklyn Bridge opens. January–March January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 73 people.
January 16 – The United States civil service with the aim to end the
spoils system
January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey (it was built by Thomas Edison ).
February 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law .
February 28 – The first Boston, Massachusetts
.
March
April–June July–September October–December October 15 – The race
.
November 3
November 18 – U.S. and railroads institute 5 standard continental
time zones
November 28 – Whitman College is chartered as a 4-year college in Walla Walla, Washington . Undated Ongoing Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)Depression of 1882–85
(1882–1885)Sport September 27 – The Cleveland Blues
. Births January 10
January 19 – Waite Phillips , businessman and philanthropist (died 1964 )
January 20 – Enoch L. Johnson , political boss and racketeer (died 1968 )
January 25 – Homer Bone , U.S. Senator from Washington from 1933 to 1944 (died 1970 )
January 30 – Eddie Collins , vaudeville-veteran comic (died 1940 )
March 3 – Edwin Carewe , Native American director (died 1940 )
March 19 – Joseph Stilwell , general (died 1946 )
April 2 – Pearl Doles Bell , film scenarist, novelist and editor (died 1968 )
April 3 – Walter Walker , U.S. Senator from Colorado in 1932 (died 1956 )
April 12 – Imogen Cunningham , photographer (died 1976 )
May 22 – Jane Grey , actress (died 1944 )
May 23 – Douglas Fairbanks , swashbuckling silent film actor (died 1939 )
June 7 – Sylvanus Morley , Mayanist (died 1948 )
June 21 – Richard Remer , athlete (died 1973 )
June 25 – Paul Bartholomew , architect (died 1973 )
June 26 – Mary van Kleeck , labor activist (died 1972 )
July 4 – Rube Goldberg , cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor (died 1970)
July 24 – )
August 18 – Sidney Hatch , athlete (died 1966 )
September 5 – Mel Sheppard , athlete (died 1942 )
September 19 – Mabel Vernon , suffragist (died 1975 )
November 8 – Charles Demuth , painter (died 1935 )
November 25 – Merrill C. Meigs , newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (died 1968 )
November 26 – Belle da Costa Greene , librarian (died 1950 )
December 19 – Barry Byrne , architect (died 1967 )
December 22 – Edna Goodrich , actress (died 1972 )
December 31 – Leo Otis Colbert , admiral and engineer, director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (died 1968 ) Deaths January 10 – Samuel Mudd , physician imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (born 1833 )
January 12 – Clark Mills , sculptor (born 1810 )
January 13 – Webster Wagner , inventor, manufacturer and politician (born 1817 )
February 16 – Stephen P. Hempstead , 2nd Governor of Iowa from 1850 to 1854 (born 1812 )
March 4 – Alexander H. Stephens , only vice president of the Confederate States of America (born 1812 )
March 15 – Henry C. Wayne , U.S. Army officer, Confederate brigadier general (born 1815)
March 26 – Joseph Saberton, U.S. Army private, Union Army (born 1830)
March 28 – Napoleon Bonaparte Buford , general and railroad executive (born 1807 )
April 4 – Peter Cooper , industrialist, inventor, philanthropist and candidate for President of the U.S. (born 1791 )
April 6 – Benjamin Wright Raymond , politician, twice mayor of Chicago (born 1801 )
April 28 – William M. Browne , politician and newsman, Acting Confederate States Secretary of State in 1862 (born 1823 in Ireland )
May 15 – Josiah Gorgas , Northern-born Confederate general (born 1818 )
June 14
July 15 – General Tom Thumb , dwarf performer (born 1838 )
July 22 – )
July 23 – Ginery Twichell , transportation manager and politician (born 1811 )
July 24 – Thomas Swann , politician and president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1847 to 1853 (born 1809 )
July 27 – Montgomery Blair , politician and lawyer (born 1813 )
September 16 – Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., actor and theatre manager (born
1821
October 4 – Henry Farnam , surveyor, railroad president and philanthropist (born 1809 )
October 22 – Thomas Mayne Reid , novelist (born 1818 in Ireland )
November 20 – Augustus C. Dodge , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1848 to 1855 (born 1812 )
November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows , landscape painter (born 1829 )
November 26 – Sojourner Truth , African American abolitionist and women's rights activist (born c. 1797 )
December 27 – Andrew A. Humphreys , general and civil engineer (born 1810 )
Mary S. B. Shindler , poet (born 1810 )See also External links
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