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* 1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )
After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).
Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.
Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.
1886 and first
* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
The first complete synthesis of an alkaloid was achieved in 1886 by the German chemist Albert Ladenburg.
The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.
The 1886 Berne Convention first established recognition of copyrights among sovereign nations, rather than merely bilaterally.
The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.
Dysprosium was first identified in 1886 by Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but was not isolated in pure form until the development of ion exchange techniques in the 1950s.
The University of Missouri subsequently established the first department of electrical engineering in the United States in 1886.
He wrote that his painting The Sick Child ( 1886 ), based on his sister's death, was his first " soul painting ", his first break from Impressionism.
* 1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work.
One of the club's first ever kits was half red, half white shirts with white shorts worn in the 1886 – 7 season.
The first telephones were introduced to Gibraltar in 1886 by a private company which was later taken over by the colonial authorities.
* 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
* 1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
* 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
In 1886, Landis first ventured into Republican Party politics, supporting a friend, Charles F. Griffin for Indiana Secretary of State.
In 1879 his first engine patent was granted to him and in 1886 Benz was granted a patent for his first automobile ...
The disease is named after Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora ( 1886 – 1971 ), a Spanish neuropathologist who first recognized small inclusion bodies in Lafora patients.
In March 1880 he established a monthly trade journal, The Poultry Record, and in 1886, when Baum was 30 years old, his first book was published: The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.
* 1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named " Coca-Cola " as a patent medicine.
* 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1886 and parade
Soon after the first such parade in 1886, city officials realized the utility of such events and began to hold them on triumphal occasions, such as the return of Theodore Roosevelt from his African safari, Gertrude Ederle swimming the English Channel, and Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight.
An original 1886 horsecar in the 1911 parade celebrating groundbreaking for the Panama-California Exposition ( 1915 ) | Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, California | San Diego, California
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