Jack the Ripper terrorized the streets of London in 1888, and is responsible for the brutal rape and murders of at least five women. Corbis via Getty Images.

Jack The Ripper Finally Identified? More than 130 years after he terrorized London in the late 1880s, one of the most notorious serial killers of all time has finally been “unmasked,” thanks ...

See the article in its original context from June 16, 1888, Page 6 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine. ... A New-York paper comments upon the announcement of its "London Corrospondent." ...

CHEAP CIGARETTES IN LONDON. Share full article. Feb. 19, 1888. ... See the article in its original context from February 19, 1888, Page 14 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

In London, on a Friday afternoon in Crystal Palace in 1888, the first recording of a piece of classical music was made. The work was Handel ’s biblical oratorio Israel in Egypt, and it was etched onto ...

Serial killer Jack the Ripper killed the first of the so-called "canonical five" victims, Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, on this day in history, August 31, 1888. The story still fascinates many.

The Match Girls’ Strike of 1888 has been commemorated with a blue plaque at the site of the former Bryant and May match factory in East London.. In early July 1888 around 1,400 of the Bryant and ...

Brennan (Loose Lips) impresses with this atmospheric whodunit set against the backdrop of Jack the Ripper’s killing spree in 1888 London.Rather than the mean streets of Whitechapel, however ...