Today in History for April 1895

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 8 of 8

5th - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
5th - Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
11th - Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
13th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
14th - 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
15th - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
17th - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
24th - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 28 of 28

1st - Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)
3rd - Bjarne Brustad, composer
3rd - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
4th - Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
4th - Charlie Hallows, cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28)
7th - Eduardo Toldra, composer
7th - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
8th - Bert I Gordon, NY
8th - Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
9th - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
9th - Michel Simon, [Francois], Geneva Switzerland
9th - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
13th - Olga Rudge, violinist
13th - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
14th - Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
14th - Wiktor Labunski, composer
15th - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
15th - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
15th - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
16th - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
17th - Bert Wheeler, actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers)
19th - Anton F Pieck, Den Helder, Netherlands, illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel)
20th - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
23rd - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
24th - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
25th - Stanley Rous, British soccer official
29th - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
30th - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 5 of 5

19th - George Scharf, critic, dies
19th - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70
23rd - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
23rd - Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
30th - Gustav Freytag, writer, dies at 78

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