1882

1882

P.T. Barnum buys Jumbo the Elephant.

Jesse James shot and killed for five grand.

Egypt becomes British protectorate.

Nikola Tesla invents alternating current generator/motor.

born: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Sigrid Undset, Stravinsky, Samuel Goldwyn, FDR, A.A. Milne.

died: Charles Darwin.

Johannes Brahms - String Quartet #1 in F major, op. 88 "Spring"