History Timeline - 1886
* Grover Cleveland,
the 22nd President of the United States, was in office.
* The Pasteur Institute in
Paris was founded.
* Baseball player Ty Cobb was
born.
* R. L. Stevenson wrote
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
* The element germanium was
discovered by Clemens Wilder.
* The Statue of Liberty was
dedicated in New York Harbor on October 28th.
* The Canadian-Pacific Railway
was completed.
* The first patent number of
1886 was 333,494.
* Alfred Henry Spink published
the first issue of the Sporting News on March 17th. A single copy cost
five cents and a year's subscription cost two dollars and fifty cents.
* John S. Pemberton first
introduced Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia, by concocting a caramel-colored
syrup in a three-legged brass kettle in his backyard.
