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1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1888th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 888th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1888, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Events

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March 11: Great Blizzard of 1888.

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August 31: Victim found from Jack the Ripper?

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Births

January–February

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Carlos Quintanilla
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Otto Stern
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Lotte Lehmann

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Ilo Wallace

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Irving Berlin
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David Dougal Williams

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Herbert Spencer Gasser
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Frits Zernike

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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
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Maurice Chevalier
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T. S. Eliot

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C. V. Raman
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Harpo Marx
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Gladys Cooper
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F. W. Murnau

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Deaths

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Wilhelm I

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Frederick Miller
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Ascanio Sobrero
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Frederick III

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Paul Langerhans
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John Pemberton

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Carl Zeiss
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Caroline Howard Gilman

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