Today in History for Year 1893

Months in Year 1893: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 124

Jan 1st - 1st US college extension courses for credit, Univ of Chicago
Jan 1st - Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar
Jan 2nd - 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)
Jan 2nd - World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
Jan 4th - US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
Jan 6th - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
Jan 6th - The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
Jan 7th - Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
Jan 10th - Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
Jan 11th - Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35)
Jan 13th - British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
Jan 13th - U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
Jan 17th - -17°F (-27°C), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
Jan 17th - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
Jan 19th - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
Jan 21st - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate which is now Botswana.
Jan 28th - Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet & Ophelia," premieres in Boston
Jan 31st - "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing
Feb 1st - Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
Inventor Thomas Edison Feb 1st - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
Feb 2nd - 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
Feb 5th - Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
Feb 9th - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
Feb 9th - Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
Feb 24th - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America.
Feb 26th - 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
Feb 26th - Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
Feb 28th - Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
Mar 1st - Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador
Mar 2nd - 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
Mar 3rd - Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
Mar 3rd - Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture
Mar 4th - Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
Mar 4th - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US president (2nd term)
US President Grover Cleveland Mar 9th - Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
Mar 10th - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
Mar 10th - New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
Mar 30th - Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
Apr 3rd - 1st NSW v Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
Apr 5th - Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
Apr 6th - Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
Apr 6th - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
Apr 8th - The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
Apr 12th - Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi
Apr 22nd - Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
Apr 22nd - Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time
Apr 26th - 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
May 1st - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
May 4th - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
May 5th - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
May 10th - 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25
May 10th - Imperial Institute in London opens
May 11th - Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
May 19th - Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
May 22nd - Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
May 27th - Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
May 31st - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
Jun 1st - Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi Jun 7th - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
Jun 10th - 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25
Jun 16th - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
Jun 19th - Lizzie Bordon acquitted
Jun 20th - Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass
Jun 21st - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
Jun 22nd - British fleet under vice-admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
Jun 27th - Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
Jun 30th - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
Jul 1st - SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
Jul 6th - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
Jul 9th - Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
Jul 11th - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
Jul 11th - A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
Jul 15th - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
Heart surgeon Daniel Williams Jul 17th - Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
Jul 18th - Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord's
Jul 22nd - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado
Jul 24th - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
Jul 31st - Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
Aug 1st - Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
Aug 7th - 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
Aug 9th - 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
Aug 10th - Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
Aug 14th - France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
Aug 14th - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
Aug 15th - US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
Aug 20th - Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
Aug 24th - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1000 die
Aug 30th - 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
Children's Author Beatrix Potter Sep 4th - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
Sep 11th - Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
Sep 11th - Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
Sep 11th - First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
Sep 16th - Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders
Sep 19th - NZ is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote
Sep 21st - Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car)
Sep 22nd - 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
Oct 1st - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
Oct 6th - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
Oct 13th - Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (Engld) in 9th America's Cup
Oct 14th - George Edwardes "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 300

Jan 2nd - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
Jan 3rd - Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles)
Jan 4th - Manuel Palau Boix, composer
Jan 4th - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007)
Jan 5th - Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik)
Jan 5th - Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)
Jan 5th - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
Jan 10th - Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
Jan 12th - Hermann Goering, propoganda minister (Nazi Germany)
Jan 12th - Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
Jan 13th - Clarke Ashton Smith, US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
Jan 13th - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer
Jan 13th - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
Jan 15th - Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies, Cardiff Wales, composer/writer/actor (Truth Game)
Jan 15th - Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-4.)
Jan 16th - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
Jan 18th - John Lawrence Seymour, composer
Jan 20th - Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos)
Jan 20th - Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
Jan 22nd - Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary)
Jan 23rd - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks)
Jan 26th - Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
Jan 26th - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
Jan 27th - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
Jan 28th - Elliot Griffis, composer
Jan 29th - Edric Cundell, composer
Jan 29th - Martian Negrea, composer
Jan 31st - Freya Stark, English explorer/ travel writer
Feb 2nd - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
Feb 2nd - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970)
Feb 3rd - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
Feb 4th - Bernard Rogers, NYC, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion)
Feb 4th - Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus)
Feb 5th - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica)
Feb 6th - Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63)
Feb 8th - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
Feb 10th - Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
Feb 10th - William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
Feb 11th - Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary (Festival)
Feb 12th - Marcel G J Minnaert, Dutch astronomer
Feb 12th - Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II (GI General)
Feb 13th - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
Feb 14th - Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen)
Feb 15th - Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
Feb 15th - Walter Donaldson, US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee)
Feb 16th - Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic [OS]
Feb 17th - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
Feb 19th - Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
Feb 19th - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi)
Feb 20th - Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
Feb 20th - Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
Feb 21st - Andres Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist, (d. 1987)
Feb 21st - Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
Feb 21st - Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
Feb 26th - Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) [NS]
Feb 26th - William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
Feb 27th - Joseph Messner, composer
Feb 27th - Ralph Linton, US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)
Feb 28th - Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
Mar 1st - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
Mar 1st - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
Mar 2nd - Maxime Dumoulin, composer
Mar 3rd - Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author
Mar 3rd - Bill Nestell, CA, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier)
Mar 5th - Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization
Mar 6th - Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street)
Mar 6th - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues
Mar 7th - Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
Mar 9th - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist/decorator
Mar 9th - Hans Munch, composer
Mar 16th - Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
Mar 18th - Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
Mar 18th - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
Mar 18th - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
Mar 21st - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
Mar 23rd - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
Mar 24th - George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
Mar 25th - Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
Mar 26th - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
Mar 27th - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
Mar 27th - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
Mar 28th - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
Mar 31st - Clemens Krauss, Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937)
Apr 1st - Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure)
Apr 3rd - Leslie Howard, [Stainer], London, actor (Gone With the Wind)
Apr 3rd - Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945)
Apr 5th - Clas Thunberg, Finland, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924, 28)
Apr 7th - Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
Apr 7th - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
Apr 8th - Grace Cunard, Columbus OH, silent screen actress (Resurrection)
Apr 8th - Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit)
Apr 11th - Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
Apr 11th - Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
Apr 16th - Federico Mompou, composer
Apr 16th - Joseph Yasser, composer
Apr 18th - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
Apr 20th - Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)
Apr 20th - Hermann Ungar, writer
Apr 20th - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian
Apr 20th - Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Jan 18th - British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London
Jul 6th - British Prince George Duke of York (later George V) marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary) at St James's Palace

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 77 of 77

Jan 2nd - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
Jan 7th - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
Jan 9th - Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
Jan 11th - Benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74
Jan 15th - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
Jan 16th - Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74
Jan 17th - Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
Jan 19th - Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68
Jan 22nd - Vincenz Lachner, composer, dies at 81
Jan 23rd - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75
Jan 23rd - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
Jan 26th - Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
Jan 27th - James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62
Feb 1st - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
Feb 13th - Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58
Feb 18th - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
Feb 20th - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
Mar 5th - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64
Mar 5th - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer, dies at 37
Mar 17th - Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
Mar 19th - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69
Apr 4th - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86
Apr 9th - Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66
Apr 19th - John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies
Apr 22nd - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825)
Apr 27th - John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
Apr 30th - Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57
May 3rd - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
May 4th - George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
May 14th - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
May 14th - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
May 23rd - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
Jun 7th - Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43
Jun 10th - Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49
Jun 21st - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
Jun 23rd - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
Jul 6th - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
Jul 7th - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
Jul 9th - William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide
Jul 17th - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
Jul 20th - Tom Kelly, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1977-79, 64 runs), dies
Aug 6th - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
Aug 7th - Alfredo Catalani, composer, dies at 39
Aug 16th - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
Aug 17th - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29]
Aug 22nd - Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75
Aug 29th - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]
Sep 3rd - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
Sep 15th - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
Sep 19th - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
Oct 4th - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88
Oct 10th - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
Oct 14th - Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 84
Oct 16th - Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
Oct 16th - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
Oct 18th - Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75
Oct 18th - Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, US abolitionist/feminist, dies
Oct 30th - John Abbott, PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
Nov 4th - Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86
Nov 4th - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
Composer Tchaikovsky (Nov 6th) Nov 6th - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), dies at 53
Nov 7th - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, dies at 37
Nov 12th - Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80
Nov 13th - Antoine T d'abbadie, French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78
Nov 16th - George Alexander Osborne, composer, dies at 87
Nov 17th - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86), dies at 36
Nov 22nd - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
Nov 30th - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
Dec 1st - Eduard Franck, composer, dies at 76
Dec 4th - Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
Dec 9th - George Elvey, composer, dies at 77
Dec 14th - Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86
Dec 17th - Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
Dec 22nd - Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91
Dec 22nd - Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80
Dec 30th - Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72
Dec 31st - Jacob G de Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist, dies at 74