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Months in Year 1895: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 100 of 132
Jan 1st - Norway adopts Mid-European time
Jan 5th - Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London
Jan 5th - Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
Jan 5th - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
Jan 12th - The National Trust is founded in Britain.
Jan 13th - Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
Jan 15th - Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
Jan 15th - French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
Jan 15th - Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
Jan 17th - French president Casimir-Perier resigns
Jan 17th - Félix Faure installed as president of France
Jan 18th - Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
Jan 22nd - National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
Jan 29th - King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
Jan 30th - C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
Jan 30th - SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
Jan 30th - Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
Jan 31st - Jose Martí & others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba
Feb 3rd - Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
Feb 4th - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
Feb 8th - Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
Feb 9th - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
Feb 9th - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
Feb 11th - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
Feb 11th - Georgetown became part of Wash DC
Feb 13th - Moving picture projector patented
Feb 14th - Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
Feb 15th - 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
Feb 20th - Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
Feb 21st - NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
Feb 23rd - Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)
Feb 23rd - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
Feb 24th - Cuban war for independence begins
Feb 26th - Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
Mar 4th - Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin
Mar 6th - England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
Mar 6th - J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) Eng v Aust
Mar 9th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1
Mar 11th - Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
Mar 13th - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
Mar 18th - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
Mar 19th - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
Mar 22nd - Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
Mar 25th - Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Mar 26th - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
Mar 30th - British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
Apr 5th - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
Apr 5th - Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
Apr 11th - Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
Apr 13th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
Apr 14th - 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
Apr 15th - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
Apr 17th - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Apr 24th - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
May 6th - 21st Kentucky Derby: Soup Perkins aboard Halma wins in 2:37.50
May 7th - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
May 8th - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
May 17th - W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
May 20th - 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
May 24th - Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
May 25th - 20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50.5
May 25th - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
May 25th - The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
May 27th - British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
May 30th - W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
Jun 11th - 1st auto race
Jun 11th - Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
Jun 13th - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
Jun 17th - US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
Jun 20th - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
Jun 20th - Canal of Smock official opens
Jun 20th - Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
Jun 21st - British Roseberry govt falls
Jun 28th - El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union
Jun 29th - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
Jul 3rd - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
Jul 4th - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
Jul 8th - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
Jul 11th - Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists
Jul 16th - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
Aug 10th - 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi")
Aug 19th - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
Aug 20th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
Aug 26th - Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
Aug 27th - 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
Aug 29th - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
Aug 30th - Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
Aug 31st - 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
Sep 3rd - 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
Sep 5th - George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
Sep 9th - American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
Sep 11th - FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
Sep 12th - Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (Engld) in 10th America's Cup
Sep 18th - Booker T Washington delivera "Atlanta Compromise" address
Sep 18th - D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
Sep 18th - Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
Sep 21st - 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
Sep 23rd - French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
Sep 24th - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
Sep 26th - Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 100 of 331
Jan 1st - J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
Jan 1st - Nathaniel Shilkret, NYC, conductor
Jan 2nd - Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
Jan 3rd - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer
Jan 3rd - Mihail Andricu, composer
Jan 4th - Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter
Jan 4th - Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
Jan 5th - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest
Jan 5th - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
Jan 7th - Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist
Jan 7th - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
Jan 7th - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
Jan 13th - Anton Betzner, writer
Jan 13th - Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
Jan 14th - George Richard Samways, children's writer
Jan 15th - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
Jan 16th - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
Jan 20th - Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah)
Jan 21st - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
Jan 24th - Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch)
Jan 24th - Eugen Roth, writer
Jan 27th - Claudio Carneyro, composer
Jan 27th - Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41)
Jan 27th - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
Jan 29th - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
Feb 1st - John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
Feb 2nd - George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
Feb 3rd - Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for S Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52)
Feb 3rd - Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
Feb 3rd - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (APRA-Peru) [or Feb 22]
Feb 4th - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters)
Feb 4th - Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth
Feb 6th - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, baseball great (Yankees)
Feb 8th - King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
Feb 9th - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
Feb 11th - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer
Feb 13th - Fred Essler, Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk)
Feb 14th - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice)
Feb 14th - Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman)
Feb 15th - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
Feb 17th - Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain)
Feb 17th - Edna Park Edwards, PA
Feb 18th - George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star (Notre Dame)
Feb 18th - Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
Feb 19th - Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
Feb 20th - Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
Feb 21st - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
Feb 22nd - Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
Feb 23rd - Richard Goolden, London England, actor (School for Husbands)
Feb 25th - DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
Feb 25th - Henri Martelli, composer
Feb 27th - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
Feb 28th - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
Feb 28th - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
Mar 1st - G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer (elected 1958)
Mar 2nd - Felix Bressart, Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads)
Mar 3rd - Alex[ander] Nearmolen, composer
Mar 3rd - Alexander Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer
Mar 3rd - Juanita Hansen, Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love)
Mar 3rd - Matthew B Ridgway, US gen (WW II/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO)
Mar 3rd - Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969)
Mar 3rd - Robert Gordon, Ks, actor (Loveless)
Mar 4th - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
Mar 5th - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle)
Mar 7th - Juan Jose Castro, composer
Mar 12th - William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
Mar 14th - Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian
Mar 17th - Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
Mar 20th - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
Mar 21st - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
Mar 22nd - Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents)
Mar 23rd - Dane Rudhyar, composer
Mar 23rd - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
Mar 24th - Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
Mar 24th - Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
Mar 25th - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
Mar 28th - Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
Mar 28th - Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
Mar 29th - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
Mar 30th - Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)
Mar 31st - John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man)
Mar 31st - Vardis A Fisher, US author (Darkness & Deep)
Apr 1st - Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)
Apr 3rd - Bjarne Brustad, composer
Apr 3rd - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
Apr 4th - Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
Apr 4th - Charlie Hallows, cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28)
Apr 7th - Eduardo Toldra, composer
Apr 7th - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
Apr 8th - Bert I Gordon, NY
Apr 8th - Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
Apr 9th - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
Apr 9th - Michel Simon, [Francois], Geneva Switzerland
Apr 9th - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
Apr 13th - Olga Rudge, violinist
Apr 13th - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
Apr 14th - Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
Apr 14th - Wiktor Labunski, composer
Apr 15th - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
Apr 15th - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 66 of 66
Jan 3rd - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
Jan 9th - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
Jan 10th - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45
Jan 22nd - Edward Solomon, composer, dies at 39
Jan 24th - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
Jan 26th - Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies
Jan 28th - Francois Certain de Canrobert, French marshal, dies at 85
Feb 2nd - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
Feb 4th - Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer, dies at 71
Feb 18th - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austrian (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77
Feb 18th - Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)
Feb 20th - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
Feb 24th - Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
Mar 2nd - Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54
Mar 2nd - Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
Mar 5th - Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64
Mar 5th - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
Mar 6th - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
Mar 9th - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59
Mar 10th - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
Apr 19th - George Scharf, critic, dies
Apr 19th - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70
Apr 23rd - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
Apr 23rd - Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
Apr 30th - Gustav Freytag, writer, dies at 78
May 11th - Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71
May 15th - Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75
May 19th - Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
May 21st - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
May 23rd - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96
May 24th - Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73
May 25th - Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73
Jun 15th - Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72
Jun 23rd - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44
Jun 29th - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
Jul 2nd - William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72
Jul 8th - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
Jul 14th - Alexander Ewing, composer, dies at 65
Jul 19th - Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
Jul 19th - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
Jul 28th - Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72
Aug 5th - Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies
Aug 6th - George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74
Aug 13th - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies
Aug 19th - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
Aug 24th - John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74
Sep 8th - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58
Sep 10th - Harrison Millard, composer, dies at 64
Sep 14th - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57
Sep 15th - Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58
Sep 17th - Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies
Sep 28th - Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72
Sep 29th - Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies
Oct 8th - Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
Oct 25th - Charles Halle, British pianist, dies
Oct 31st - Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62
Nov 1st - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61
Nov 11th - Julius Tausch, composer, dies at 68
Nov 25th - Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68
Nov 27th - A Dumas D J, writer, dies at 71
Nov 27th - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
Nov 29th - Eduard count von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62
Dec 5th - Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)
Dec 13th - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
Dec 25th - Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32
Dec 30th - LP Hartley, British writer, dies
