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1883
Events
January–March
January 4
–
Life
magazine is founded in Los Angeles
January 10
– A fire at the Newhall Hotel in
Milwaukee
kills 73 people.
January 16
– The
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
, establishing the
United States civil service
, is passed.
January 19
– The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in
Roselle, New Jersey
; it was installed by
Thomas Edison
.
February –
The Adventures of Pinocchio
by
Carlo Collodi
is first published complete in book form in Italy.
February 13
– The German composer
Richard Wagner
dies of a heart attack in
Venice
, Italy.
February 16
– The
Ladies' Home Journal
is published for the first time.
February 23
–
Alabama
becomes the first U.S. state to enact an
antitrust law
.
February 28
– The first
vaudeville
theater is opened, in
Boston
,
Massachusetts
.
March 2
– The
Hong Kong Observatory
is formed.
March 20
–
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
.
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