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1880
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1880
Events
January–March
January 22
Toowong State School is founded in
Queensland
, Australia.
February – The journal
Science
is first published in the United States with financial backing from
Thomas Edison
.
February 2
The first electric
streetlight
is installed in
Wabash, Indiana
.
The first successful shipment of frozen
mutton
from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS
Strathleven
.
February 4
The
Black Donnelly Massacre
took the lives of five members of one family in
Biddulph Township
,
Middlesex County, Ontario
, Canada
February 24
The
SS Columbia
, which will be the first outside usage of
Thomas Edison
's
incandescent light bulb
, is launched at the
Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works
of
John Roach & Sons
in
Chester, Pennsylvania
.
March 31
–
Wabash, Indiana
becomes the first electrically lit city in the world.
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