Jack the Ripper
August 31, 1888
The first of five canonical murders by an unknown killer in London's Whitechapel slums electrified the city and the new mass press. Five prostitutes were mutilated over three autumn months. The killer was never caught. The case would launch a genre - true crime - and invent, accidentally, the modern tabloid.
In context
Also in 1888 (4 other events on record)
- Brazil Abolishes Slavery · South America · Politics
- Kodak Launches · North America · Technology
- Wilhelm II Becomes Kaiser · Europe · Politics
- Brazil Abolition Aftermath · South America · Politics
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Disaster
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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