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23 June – Married Women's Property Act 1884, relates solely to the giving of evidence in criminal matters by husband and wife. [9] 1 July – First International Forestry Exhibition opens in Edinburgh. [10] 8 July – the NSPCC is founded as the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. [1] [11]
March 27–29 – Cincinnati riots of 1884. April 21 – Hammond, Indiana, is incorporated a city. May 1 – The eight-hour workday is first proclaimed by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States. May 1, called May Day or Labour Day, is now a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.
1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1884th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 884th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of ...
November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) ... 1884 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (b. 1818) 1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, ...
"The Fountain in the Park" aka "While Strolling Through the Park One Day" w.m. Ed Haley "The Golden Wedding" m. Gabriel-Marie "Love's Old Sweet Song" w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lynam Molloy "March of the Plumed Knight" by Charles B. Morrell & William Howard Doane "My Thoughts Are of Thee" by Sam Lucas
October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) ... (b. 1884) 1967 – Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932) 1976 – Barbara Nichols, ...
September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1967 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) ... 1884 – Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress (d. 1957) 1886 – Eugene Burton Ely, ...