August 1886 in History

Events in History

Aug 1 Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
Aug 4 Colombia adopts constitution

Event of Interest

Aug 13 John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially completing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia

Event of Interest

Aug 20 Second Salon exhibition by Society of Independent Artists held in Paris; includes Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

Aug 25 1st international polo meet (US vs England)
Aug 31 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina, 110 die

Event of Interest

Aug 31 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized

Business Tycoon and Railroad Executive Charles Crocker

Birthdays in History

Aug 1 Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher and founder (System Keesing), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
Aug 2 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator, born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia (d. 1961)

Inez Milholland (1886-1916)

Aug 6 American suffragist (National Woman's Party), labor lawyer and socialist, born in Brooklyn, New York

Aug 7 Louis Alan Hazeltine, American inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible), born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1964)
Aug 12 Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
Aug 13 Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African painter, born in Pretoria, South Africa (d. 1957)
Aug 20 Paul Tillich, German-American theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung), born in Starzeddel, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1965)
Aug 24 William Francis Gibbs, American naval architect, designed Liberty ships, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1967)

Weddings in History

Booker T. Washington

Aug 11 Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (30) weds Olivia Davidson (32) Athens, Ohio

Deaths in History

Aug 4 Samuel J. Tilden, American politician (Governor of New York 1875-76, Presidential candidate 1876) and philanthropist (NY Public Library), dies at 72
Aug 6 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45
Aug 9 Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
Aug 11 Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
Aug 16 Ramakrishna, Indian mystic and yogi, dies at 50
Aug 17 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (discoverer of hexamine (1859)), dies at 57
Aug 17 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 61
Aug 22 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67
Aug 30 Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American military officer and politician (US Representative from New York 1881-83), dies at 50