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Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
Mary Ann Nichols becomes the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in London's Whitechapel district.
In the early hours of August 31, 1888, Mary Ann Nichols was found murdered in the Whitechapel district of London.
Her brutal killing was the first confirmed victim of the notorious Jack the Ripper.
Nichols’s body was discovered on Bucks Row with wounds that shocked the public and police alike.
The gruesome nature of the crime sparked a media frenzy and public panic in Victorian London.
Despite numerous investigations, the killer was never caught and the case remains one of history’s greatest mysteries.
The Jack the Ripper murders have inspired countless books, films, and theories to this day.
1888
Mary Ann Nichols
Jack the Ripper