Today in History for February 1895
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Months in 1895: January March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 16 of 16
3rd - Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
4th - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
8th - Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
9th - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
9th - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
11th - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
11th - Georgetown became part of Wash DC
13th - Moving picture projector patented
14th - Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
15th - 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
20th - Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
21st - NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
23rd - Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)
23rd - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
24th - Cuban war for independence begins
26th - Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 29 of 29
1st - John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
2nd - George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
3rd - Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for S Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52)
3rd - Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
3rd - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (APRA-Peru) [or Feb 22]
4th - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters)
4th - Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth
6th - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, baseball great (Yankees)
8th - King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
9th - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
11th - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer
13th - Fred Essler, Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk)
14th - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice)
14th - Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman)
15th - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
17th - Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain)
17th - Edna Park Edwards, PA
18th - George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star (Notre Dame)
18th - Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
19th - Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
20th - Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
21st - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
22nd - Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
23rd - Richard Goolden, London England, actor (School for Husbands)
25th - DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
25th - Henri Martelli, composer
27th - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
28th - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
28th - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 6 of 6
2nd - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
4th - Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer, dies at 71
18th - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austrian (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77
18th - Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)
20th - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
24th - Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
