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From top left, clockwise: A famous gunfight erupts at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881; a long-distance passenger train called the Orient Express begins running between Paris and Constantinople in 1883; U.S. Congress bans Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. for ten years, starting in 1882; South Fork Dam fails after heavy rainfall and floods the town of Johnstown ...
June 1 – United States Census is 50,155,783. More than 100,000 Chinese men and 3,000 Chinese women are living in the western United States. August 1 – Rufus W. Cobb is reelected the 25th governor of Alabama defeating James Madison Pickens. September 30 – Amateur astronomer Henry Draper takes the first ever photograph of the Orion Nebula.
1880 1887 A community based on Christian socialism. Am Olam: Across the US Mania Bakl and Moses Herder 1881 Most disbanded by the 1890s Jewish social movement that sought to create agricultural communities in America. [11] Shalam Colony: New Mexico John B. Newbrough Andrew Howland 1884 1901
The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...
Former United States Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce is the first African-American to have his signature on American paper currency. He becomes the Register of the United States Treasury on May 21, 1881. June 12 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1880s in the United States by state or territory (64 C) 1880s disestablishments in the United States (49 C) 1880s establishments in the United States (65 C, 3 P)
September 5 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City. September 30 – The Vulcan Street Plant, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, comes on stream in Appleton, Wisconsin.
February 18 – Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the United States. February 21 – United States President Chester A. Arthur dedicates the Washington Monument. March 3 – A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.