1880

Emperor Norton I

1880

First town in the world gets electric streetlights: Wabash, Indiana.

Ned Kelly hanged.

Born: Tom Mix, Mack Sennett, W.C. Fields, George Herriman, Douglas McArthur, Robert Musil,

Died: George Eliot, and our dear emperor, Joshua Norton.

Antonín Dvořák - Six Mazurkas, op. 56