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* 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
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* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )
* 1883 – Dally Messenger, Australian footballer ( d. 1959 )
* 1883 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist ( d. 1923 )
* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )
* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )
* Adrian Stoop ( 1883 – 1957 ), English rugby union player
* 1883 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect ( d. 1962 )
* 1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* 1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress ( d. 1938 )
* 1883 – Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress ( d. 1974 )
* 1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress ( d. 1968 )
* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )
* 1883 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company ( d. 1971 )
* 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress ( d. 1961 )
* 1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
* 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian ( d. 1883 )
* 1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general ( d. 1953 )
* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( 1883 – 1963 ), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral
* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )
* 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician ( d. 1953 )
A Theatre and Concert Hall was constructed in 1883, which was renovated and expanded in 1995 – 96.
* 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist ( b. 1883 )
( 1812 – 1883 ), originally named Bezime, a Vlach.
* 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian painter ( d. 1966 )
1883 and New
Second edition, 1883, New York: G. P.
File: Claude Monet-Rock Arch. jpg | Rock Arch West of Étretat ( The Manneport ), 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: The letters of Lucien to Camille Pissarro 1883 – 1903, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York & Oakleigh, 1993 ISBN 0-521-39034-6
In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.
* 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
The tradition originated in 1883 when New York socialite E. Berry Wall presented roses to ladies at a post-Derby party that was attended by Churchill Downs founder and president, Col. M. Lewis Clark.
* 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mer et bateaux ( Sea and ships ), 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
* 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
In 1883, the Colony of Queensland purported to annex the southern half of eastern New Guinea.
More recent usage was Peter Read's 1981 publication of The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969.
On January 19, 1883, the first standardized incandescent electric lighting system employing overhead wires began service in Roselle, New Jersey.
Joseph Pulitzer purchased the New York World in 1883 after making the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the dominant daily in that city.
* May 19 – Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player ( b. 1883 )
Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York, obtained the earliest United States patents for toilet paper and dispensers, the types of which eventually were in common usage in that country, in 1883.
It was reported that as of 1883, cigars were being manufactured in 127 apartment houses in New York, employing 1, 962 families and 7, 924 individuals.
* The Southern Pacific Railroad linked New Orleans with Los Angeles in 1883, linking the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean.
* The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction was built by Steinway's factory in New York City in 1883 – 87 ; it sold for $ 1. 2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London.
There is a famous reference to the Colossus in the sonnet " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed on a plaque located inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:
From 1883 to 1888 he was chief librarian at Columbia University, from 1888 to 1906 director of the New York State Library, and from 1888 to 1900 secretary and executive officer of the University of the State of New York.
* Peter B. Olney ( 1843 – 1922 ), New York County District Attorney 1883 – 1884
* 1883 – Isle of Man, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa ( see Die Heilsleër ), United Kingdom
* 1883 New York Methodist minister Horatio Graves becomes the first white permanent settler in the county.
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