Video: 'PBS: Haymarket Affair and the Origins of May Day'
(Tuesday, May 4, 1886, 10:30 p.m. local time) — A labor demonstration for an 8-hour work day tonight at Haymarket Square in Chicago turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded; in all, seven policemen and at least four workers were killed.
(Wednesday, November 25, 1885, 5:00 p.m. local time) — Thomas A. Hendricks, the 21st Vice President of the United States (1885, under Grover Cleveland), suffered an apparent fatal heart attack today in Indianapolis, Indiana, after only less than nine months in office.
Following Hendricks’s death at age 66, the office of Vice-President was vacant for more than three years until March 4, 1889, when Levi P. Morton was inaugurated.
Hendricks was the fifth of seven U.S. Vice Presidents to die of natural causes while in office (1812-1912).
Video: 'Daimler Reitwagen 1885'
(Saturday, August 29, 1885) — Gottlieb Daimler today patented the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen (“riding wagon”), the forerunner of all vehicles, land, sea and air, that use its overwhelmingly popular engine type.
(Saturday, August 8, 1885, 8:06 a.m. local time) — More than one million people witnessed the funeral procession of former President Ulysses S. Grant (who had died July 23, 1885) today in New York City. Continue reading Million+ witness funeral procession for former President Grant in New York City 130 years ago today (Aug 8 1885)
Video: '#18 U.S. Grant'
(Tuesday, July 23, 1885, 8:06 a.m. local time) — Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) and Commanding General of the Union Army during the American Civil War, died today at a cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in Wilton, New York, of throat cancer only days after completing this memoir. He was 63. Continue reading Former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant dies in Wilton, New York 130 years ago this hour (July 23 1885)
Video: 'How They Built the Statue of Liberty.mov' (June 17, 1885, at 13:07)
(Wednesday, June 17, 1885) — The Statue of Liberty arrived today in New York aboard the French frigate Isère in 214 crates that held the disassembled gift from the people of France.
Some 200,000 people lined the waterfront while hundreds of boats pulled into the harbor to welcome the Isère.
(Saturday, May 2, 1885) — Good Housekeeping, a magazine featuring articles about women’s interests, product testing, recipes, diet, health as well as literature, was first published today in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
(Wednesday, March 4, 1885) — Former Governor Grover Cleveland of New York was inaugurated today as the 22nd President of the United States at the East Portico of the United States Capitol with Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite administering oath of office.
Cleveland replaced Chester A. Arthur who had failed in a bid to be elected to a second term. Continue reading Cleveland sworn in as 22nd U.S. President, Hendricks as 21st VP 130 years ago today (Mar 4 1885)
Video: 'Eleanor Roosevelt Biography'
(Saturday, October 11, 1884) — Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who served from 1933 to 1945) and the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt (who served from 1901 to 1909), was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt today at 56 West 37th Street in New York City.
(Sunday, November 18, 1883) — American and Canadian railroads today instituted five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
