1888

1888

Jack the Ripper!! The five 'canonical' victims: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, murdered. Also Martha Tabram; possible early victim.

Washington Monument opens to the public.

National Geographic Society founded.

Borneo becomes British protectorate.

born: F.W. Murnau, Irving Berlin, Raymond Chandler, Maurice Chevalier, T.S. Eliot, Joe Kennedy, Eugene O'Neill, Knute Rockne, All American

died: Matthew Arnold

Claude Debussy - Deux Arabesques

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, op. 35
I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
II. The Kalendar Prince
III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess
IV. Festival At Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman.



***and here's another recording of Scheherazade by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra (as well as MP3s of tons of other classical works the PSO has recorded)***