Events from the year1886 in the United States .
October 28:Statue of Liberty dedicated. February 6–9 –Seattle riot of 1886 :Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.
February 14 – The first train load oforanges leavesLos Angeles via thetranscontinental railroad .
March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20African Americans are killed inMississippi .
April 24 – FatherAugustine Tolton ,the firstRoman Catholic priest from the U.S. to identify himself publicly asAfrican American ,is ordained inRome .
May 1 – Ageneral strike begins, which escalates on May 4 into theHaymarket affair in Chicago and eventually wins theeight-hour day for workers.
May 8 – Pharmacist Dr.John Stith Pemberton invents acarbonated beverage that will be named 'Coca-Cola '.
May 17 –Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad U.S. Supreme Court rules thatcorporations have the same rights as living persons.
May 29 – PharmacistJohn Pemberton begins to advertiseCoca-Cola (advertisement in theAtlanta Journal
May 31-June 1 – Conversion of all (most) railroads to standard gauge; seeTrack gauge in the United States
June 2 – U.S. PresidentGrover Cleveland marriesFrances Folsom in theWhite House ,becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
June 9 – TheStoughton Musical Society 's centennial is celebrated.
July 23 –Steve Brodie is reported to have made a jump from theBrooklyn Bridge ,a claim subsequently disputed.
August 2 –Thomas Seay iselected the 27thgovernor of Alabama defeating Arthur Bingham.
August 20 – A massivehurricane demolishes the town ofIndianola, Texas .
August 31 – The 6.9–7.3 Mw Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximumMercalli intensity of X (Extreme ). Sixty people are killed and damage is estimated at$ 5–6 million.
September 4 –Indian Wars :After almost 30 years of fighting,Apache leaderGeronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to GeneralNelson Miles atSkeleton Canyon inArizona .
October 10 – The English style ofblack tie men's formal evening dress is introduced to the U.S. by James Brown Potter atTuxedo Park, New York ,hence its usual American description as "tux(edo)".[ 1]
October 28 – TheStatue of Liberty inNew York Harbor is dedicated by U.S. PresidentGrover Cleveland .
December 1 –Thomas Seay is sworn in as the 27thgovernor of Alabama replacingEdward A. O'Neal .[ 2]
Undated – Arthur Hinds & Company, laterBarnes & Noble booksellers, is founded inNew York City .
January 3 –John G. Fletcher ,poet and author (died1950 )
January 11 –Chester Conklin ,comic film actor (died1971 )
January 28 –Sam McDaniel ,African-American actor (died1962 )
February 27 –Hugo Black ,U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971 (died 1971)
March 6
March 7 –Jessie Coles Grayson ,African American contralto and film actress (died1953 )
March 8 –Edward Calvin Kendall ,biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 (died1972 )
March 9 –Robert L. Eichelberger ,general (died1961 )
March 21 –Arthur Grover Rider ,painter (died1975 )
March 24 –Edward Weston ,photographer (died1958 )
April 2 –Reginald Barker ,film director (died1945 )
April 3 –Dooley Wilson ,African American drummer, singer and actor (died1953 )
April 8 –Margaret Ayer Barnes ,playwright, novelist and short-story writer (died1967 )
April 26 –Ma Rainey ,born Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, African American blues singer (died1939 )
May 26 –Al Jolson ,entertainer (died1950 )
June 2 –Grover Whalen ,politician (died1962 )
June 3 –Benjamin McCandlish ,Governor of Guam (died1975 )
June 6
June 27
June 29 –Robert C. Giffen ,admiral (d.1962 )
July 15 –Arthur L. Bristol ,admiral (d.1942 )
July 16 –Frank Hastings Griffin ,engineer (d.1974 )
September 11 –John H. Hester ,general (d.1976 )
September 28 –Alice Hollister ,silent film actress (d.1973 )
October 30 –Zoë Akins ,dramatist (died1958 )
November 9
December 5 –Rose Wilder Lane ,journalist and libertarian (died1968 )
December 9 –Clarence Birdseye ,founder of the modern frozen food industry (died1956 )
December 18 –Ty Cobb ,baseball outfielder (died1961 )
December 19 –Charles M. Cooke, Jr. ,admiral (died1970 )
December 25 –Kid Ory ,jazz trombonist and bandleader (died1973 )
Emily Dickinson Chester A. Arthur January 13 –Thomas Wakeman ,founder of the first Sioux Indian YMCA (born1846 )
January 22 –James T. Farley ,U.S. Senator from California from 1879 to 1885. (born1829 )
January 26 –David Rice Atchison ,U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1844 to 1855 (born1807 )
February 2 –David Hunter ,Union Army general (born1802 )
February 9 –Winfield Scott Hancock ,Civil War Union general and political candidate (born1824 )
February 12 –Horatio Seymour ,18thgovernor of New York ,Democratic Party nominee forPresident of the United States in thepresidential election of 1868 (born1810 )
March 8 –John Franklin Miller ,U.S. Senator from California from 1881 to 1886 (born1831 )
March 9 –Jerome B. Chaffee ,U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (born1825 )
March 13 –Austin Flint ,co-founder ofBuffalo Medical College and president of the American Medical Association (born1812 )
April 3 –Arthur Pember ,journalist, first president ofThe Football Association (born1835 in the United Kingdom )
April 27 –H. H. Richardson ,architect (born1838 )
May 15 –Emily Dickinson ,poet (born1830 )
May 21 –Stephen Pearl Andrews ,anarchist and proponent ofpantarchy (born 1812)
June 26 –David Davis ,U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1877 to 1883 (born1815 )
July 16 –Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (born1821 )
August 4 –Samuel J. Tilden ,25th Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876 and 1876 Democratic presidential candidate (born1814 )
August 5 –Robert Allen ,Union army brigadier general (born1811 )
August 10 –John W. Stevenson ,U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1871 to 1877 (born 1812)
August 30 –Ferris Jacobs, Jr. ,politician (born1836 )
October 10 –David Levy Yulee ,U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1851 and from 1855 to 1861 (born1810 )
November 18 –Chester A. Arthur ,21stpresident of the United States from 1881 to 1885, 20thvice president of the United States from March to September 1881 (born1829 )
November 21 –Charles Francis Adams Sr. ,United States Minister to the United Kingdom ,son ofJohn Quincy Adams (born1807 )
December 26 –John A. Logan ,U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1871 to 1877 (born1826 ) 
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