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* 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
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* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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A Theatre and Concert Hall was constructed in 1883, which was renovated and expanded in 1995 – 96.
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( 1812 – 1883 ), originally named Bezime, a Vlach.
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1883 and Brooklyn
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.
These technological advances led to the building of later structures like the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ) and the Eiffel Tower ( 1889 ).
* 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
The new Brooklyn Bridge of 1883 had seventy arc lamps installed in it.
In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was completed, easing the trip to Manhattan.
* 1883 Brooklyn Bridge – spanning the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn in New York City ; 1595 feet ( 486m ) span
Many early suspension bridges were cable-stayed construction, including the 1817 footbridge Dryburgh Bridge, James Dredge's patented Victoria Bridge, Bath ( 1836 ), and the later Albert Bridge ( 1872 ) and Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ).
Barnum that crossed the Brooklyn Bridge in order to prove that the bridge was safe after 12 people died on the bridge a year earlier on Memorial Day May 31, 1883 during a stampede.
On September 17, 1883 she became an actress on the Brooklyn Grand Opera House stage.
The other two were Jacobus in 1883 and Margrave in 1896 ( when the Preakness was run at Gravesend Race Track in Coney Island ( Brooklyn ), New York.
He was present at the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge on May 24, 1883.
The " air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame " refers to New York City and Brooklyn, not yet consolidated into one unit in 1883.
* May 30, 1883 – A rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that kills 12.
After losing its connection with the Long Island Rail Road in 1883, the railroad fell on hard times, reorganizing as the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad.
On July 4, 1883, twenty-eight word puzzlers, mostly young men, met at Pythagoras Hall in New York City and founded the Eastern Puzzlers ' League ; they then celebrated the event by paying a penny each to walk across the newly dedicated Brooklyn Bridge.
File: Brooklyn Bridge Postdlf. jpg | Brooklyn Bridge, 1883, New York City
File: Brooklyn Museum-The Northeaster-Winslow Homer-overall. jpg | Winslow Homer, The Northeaster, c. 1883
The Actives went 33 – 35 in 1883 against teams from Brooklyn, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trenton, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey ( which disbanded that July ), finishing in third place before the league folded after the season.
1883 ), baseball player, see 1883 Brooklyn Grays season
At the end of the reign of Napoleon III, Partridge travelled to America to attend Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn and Columbia University ( graduated 1883 ) in New York.
Working in compressed air in these caissons under the river caused him to get decompression sickness (" the bends ") shattering his health and rendering him unable to visit the site, yet he continued to oversee the Brooklyn project to successful completion in 1883.
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