Timeline August 1888

Events in August 1888 6

• 1888 US Championships 1888 Men: Henry Slocum Jr. · Women: Bertha Townsend
• 1888 Bertha Benz drives to Pforzheim The first road trip Without telling her husband, Bertha Benz takes the Motorwagen and her two teenage sons on a hundred-and-six-kilometre run from Mannheim to Pforzheim. She buys fuel at a pharmacy, clears a blocked fuel line with a hatpin, insulates a wire with her garter and has a cobbler nail leather to the brake blocks — inventing the brake lining. The press coverage turns an eccentric contraption into a product, and her observations on the way lead directly to the addition of a lower gear.
• 1888 Fridtjof Nansen makes the first crossing of Greenland Norwegian expedition traverses the inland ice cap Fridtjof Nansen led a six-man party on the first successful crossing of the Greenland ice cap, traveling from the east coast to the west between August and October 1888. The team skied roughly 500 kilometers using equipment and techniques that influenced later polar expeditions. Nansen's account of the journey made him internationally famous as an explorer.
• 1888 – 1935 T. E. Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia, 1888–1935 Archaeologist, intelligence officer, guerrilla leader and, for the last thirteen years of his life, a serving airman under assumed names. Lawrence helped lead the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans, wrote one of the strangest books in English, spent the rest of his life trying to escape his own fame, and died in a motorcycle crash whose consequences outlived him.
• 1888 T. E. Lawrence born in Tremadog Tremadog, Wales The second of five sons of Thomas Chapman, an Anglo-Irish baronet who had left his wife and taken the family governess. The couple never married and lived under her surname. Lawrence learned the truth as a young man.
• 1888 Jack the Ripper murders begin in Whitechapel Unsolved killings terrorize London's East End An unidentified serial killer murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel district of London between August and November 1888. The case became one of history's most famous unsolved crimes, generating extensive press coverage and enduring public fascination. The killer, dubbed 'Jack the Ripper' after a letter sent to a news agency, was never identified.