Today in History for May 1893

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

Historical Events

Events 1 - 10 of 10

1st - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
4th - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
5th - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
10th - 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25
10th - Imperial Institute in London opens
11th - Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
19th - Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
22nd - Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
27th - Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
31st - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 23 of 23

2nd - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]
3rd - Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN
3rd - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
4th - Edgar Dearing, Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy)
4th - Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], Atlanta GA, actor
7th - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
8th - Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
8th - Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988)
8th - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (d. 1963)
9th - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947)
14th - Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
14th - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
15th - Michel Gusikoff, composer
15th - Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes)
16th - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
16th - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer
21st - Arthur Carr, cricket captain (England v Australia 1926)
21st - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
23rd - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
24th - W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda)
26th - Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
26th - Norma Talmadge, NY, actress (Sign on Door, Camille)
27th - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 5 of 5

3rd - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
4th - George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
14th - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
14th - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
23rd - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)