See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of
damage.
January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated
telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts).
February 15 - 04:51 GMT , French anarchist Martial Boudin attempts to destroy the Royal
Greenwich Observatory , London, England with a bomb.
March 12 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
March 25 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon,
Ohio for Washington D.C.
May - outbreak of bubonic plague in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong. The disease
killed a total of 2,552 people in the territory that year.
May 1 - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
May 11 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a
"wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
June 23 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the
initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
July 4 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
September 1 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than
400 people.
September 4 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
October 20 (O.S.) = November 1 (N.S.) - Russian Tsar Alexander III dies and is succeeded
by his son Nicholas II.
December 18 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to
vote and to be elected to Parliament.
December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.
1894 in
sports:
March 22 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
Births:
January 6 -
Maria van den Houten.
January 18 -
Jan Willem Vlierboom.
January 20 -
Walter Piston, composer.
January 23 -
Pieter van den Houten.
January 30 -
King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943).
January 31 -
Isham Jones, jazz musician (d. 1956).
February 1 -
John Ford, director, producer (d. 1973).
February 8 -
Ludwig Marcuse, author and philosopher (d. 1971).
February 10 -
Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1986).
February 11 -
Alfonso Leng, composer.
February 11 -
Isaac Kolthooff chemist.
February 13 -
Herman Hugo Louis van den Houten.
February 14 -
Jack Benny, actor, comedian (d. 1974).
February 28 -
Ben Hecht, playwright, film writer (d. 1964).
March 7 -
Pieter Paulus Morijn.
March 10 -
Anna Jozina Maria Mertens.
March 17 -
Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (d. 1981).
March 19 -
Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist (d. 1978).
March 19 -
Moms Mabley, comedienne (d. 1975).
April 10 -
Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist.
April 13 -
Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973).
April 15 -
Bessie Smith, blues singer (d. 1937).
April 17 -
Lambrecht van (de) Luitgaren.
April 17 -
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader.
April 26 -
Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987).
May 11 -
Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer (d. 1991).
May 12 -
Gerrit van Dijl.
May 20 -
Adela Rogers St. Johns, author (d. 1988).
May 27 -
Dashiell Hammett, author of detective novels (d. 1961).
May 31 -
Fred Allen, comedian.
June 5 -
Roy Thomson, publisher (d. 1976).
June 14 - Grand Duchess
Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg.
June 23 - King
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.
July 19 -
Khawaja Nazimuddin, second Prime Minister of Pakistan (+ 1965).
August 17 -
Kornelis van den Houten.
September 13 -
J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1984).
September 15 -
Jean Renoir, Film Director.
September 24 -
Tommy Armour, professional golfer (d. 1968).
September 28 -
Arjaantje van Huizen.
October 5 -
Bevil Rudd, South African athlete.
October 7 -
Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970).
October 14 -
E. E. Cummings, American poet.
October 15 -
Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965).
October 25 -
Claude Cahun, Photographer and Writer (Born Lucy Schwob) (d. 1954).
November 2 -
Janna Finson.
November 2 -
Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (d. 1976).
December 5 -
Aren van den Houten.
December 20 -
Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978).
Chaim Soutine, painter.
Still born:
July 17 -
Still born Son Lemson.
Deaths:
January 7 -
Isabella Cornelisse.
February 4 -
Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone.
February 11 -
Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer.
March 30 -
Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer.
June 3 -
Karl Eduard Zachariae, Expert on Byzantine Law.
October 24 -
Alexander III of Russia, Tsar.
November 20 -
Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer.
November 25 -
Solomon Caesar Malan, orientalist (b. 1812).
December 3 -
Robert Louis Stevenson, author.
December 10 -
Paulina van den Houten.
December 12 -
John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian prime minister.
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