Editing 1888 (section)

=== July–September ===
[[File:John Tenniel - Punch - The Nemesis of Neglect.jpg|thumb|145px|right| [[August 31]]: Victim found from [[Jack the Ripper]]?]]
* [[July 2]]&ndash;[[July 27|27]] &ndash; [[London matchgirls strike of 1888]]: About 200 workers, mainly teenaged girls, strike following the dismissal of three colleagues from the [[Bryant and May]] [[match]] factory, precipitated by an article on their working conditions published on [[June 23]] by campaigning journalist [[Annie Besant]], and the workers unionise on July 27.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Match Workers Strike Fund Register|url=http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/matchworkers.php|website=Trades Union Congress Library at the London Metropolitan University|access-date=2016-12-10}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] &ndash; Over 200 miners were killed at a diamond mine in [[Kimberley, Northern Cape|Kimberley]], South Africa.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Kimberley Diamond-mine Disaster |work=The Cornishman |issue=524 |date=19 July 1888 |page=7}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] &ndash; According to [[Japanese government]] official confirmed report, [[1888 eruption of Mount Bandai|A large scale eruption and ash smoke hit around Mount Bandai area]], [[Fukushima Prefecture]], Japan, more than 477 people were killed.<ref>''佐藤''（2005b）; ''北原''（1995a）pp.162-165、''米地''（2006）pp.122-123.</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Frank Edward McGurrin]], a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using [[touch typing]] at this time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used in modern times.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Carl Benz]] is issued with the world's first [[driving licence]] by the [[Grand Duchy of Baden]].
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Bertha Benz]] arrives in [[Pforzheim]] having driven {{convert|40|mi|km}} from [[Mannheim]] in a car manufactured by her husband [[Carl Benz]], thus completing the first "long-distance" drive in the history of the [[automobile]].
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Whitechapel murders]]: The body of London [[prostitute]] [[Martha Tabram]] is found, a possible victim of [[Jack the Ripper]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[August 9]]
** A fire destroys the Main Building, the heart of [[Wells College]] in [[Aurora, Cayuga County, New York|Aurora, New York]], causing a loss of $130,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/08/10/100944385.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/08/10/100944385.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Wells College Destroyed|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1888-08-10}}</ref>
** The [[Oaths Act 1888|Oaths Act]] permits the [[oath of allegiance]] taken to the Sovereign by [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]] (MPs) to be [[Affirmation in law|affirmed]], rather than sworn to [[God]], thus confirming the ability of [[atheist]]s to sit in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]].
* [[August 10]] &ndash; Dr [[Friedrich Hermann Wölfert]]’s motorised airship successfully completes the world’s first engine-driven flight, from [[Cannstatt]] to [[Kornwestheim]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite web|title=The first engine-driven flight|url=http://media.daimler.com/dcmedia/0-921-614820-1-1620107-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-614318-0-1-0-0-0-0-0.html|website=Daimler|access-date=2016-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509132831/http://media.daimler.com/dcmedia/0-921-614820-1-1620107-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-614318-0-1-0-0-0-0-0.html|archive-date=May 9, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; The [[Local Government Act 1888|Local Government Act]], effective from [[1889]], establishes [[county council]]s and [[county borough]] councils in [[England and Wales]], redraws some county boundaries, and gives women the vote in local elections. It also declares that "bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, and other similar machines" be carriages within the meaning of the Highway Acts (which remains the case), and requires that they give audible warning when overtaking "any cart or carriage, or any horse, mule, or other beast of burden, or any foot passenger", a rule abolished in [[1930]].
* [[August 20]] &ndash; A mutiny at [[Dufile]], [[Equatoria]], results in the imprisonment of the [[Emin Pasha]].
* [[August 22]] &ndash; Earliest [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13469 evidence] of a death and injury by a meteorite in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
* [[August 24]] &ndash;The first [[trams in Tallinn]] ([[Reval]]), [[horsecar]]s, begin operation.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Whitechapel murders]]: The mutilated body of London prostitute [[Mary Ann Nichols]] is found; she is considered the first victim of [[Jack the Ripper]].
*  [[September 4]]
** In the United States, [[George Eastman]] registers the trademark ''[[Kodak]]'', and receives a patent for his [[camera]], which uses roll film.
** [[Mohandas Gandhi]] embarks on the S.S. ''Clyde'' from [[Bombay]] for [[London]].
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Charles Turner (Australian cricketer)|Charles Turner]] becomes the first [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] in cricket to take 250 wickets in an English season &ndash; a feat since accomplished only by [[Tom Richardson (cricketer)|Tom Richardson]] (twice), [[J. T. Hearne]], [[Wilfred Rhodes]] (twice) and [[Tich Freeman]] (six times).
* [[September 8]]
** [[Patagonian sheep farming boom|The Great Herding]] ({{langx|es|El Gran Arreo}}) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of [[General Conesa, Río Negro|Fortín Conesa]] to [[Santa Cruz Province (Argentina)|Santa Cruz]] near the [[Strait of Magellan]].<ref name=Guzman2007>{{Cite news|title=Rincón gaucho. Un arreo que extendió la frontera ganadera|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/campo/un-arreo-que-extendio-la-frontera-ganadera-nid888030/|last=Guzmán|first=Yuyú|date=March 3, 2007|access-date=January 20, 2021|work=[[La Nación]]}}</ref>
** [[Whitechapel murders]]: The mutilated body of London prostitute [[Annie Chapman]] is found (considered to be the second victim of [[Jack the Ripper]]).
** In England, the first six [[Football League]] matches are played.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
** In a letter accepting renomination as [[President of the United States]], [[Grover Cleveland]] declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare".
* [[September 17]] &ndash; Las Cruces College (later [[New Mexico State University]]) is founded in [[Las Cruces, New Mexico]].
* [[September 27]]
** [[Whitechapel murders]]: The '[[Dear Boss letter]]' signed "[[Jack the Ripper]]", the first time the name is used, is received by London's Central News Agency.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/>
** [[Stanley Park]] is officially opened by [[Vancouver]] (B.C.) mayor [[David Oppenheimer]]. 
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Whitechapel murders]]: The bodies of London prostitutes [[Elizabeth Stride]] and [[Catherine Eddowes]], the latter mutilated, are found. They are generally considered [[Jack the Ripper]]'s third and fourth victims, respectively.