Today in History for November 1895
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Months in 1895: January February March April May June July August September October December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 13 of 13
2nd - 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½
5th - 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
5th - George Selden patents 1st gasoline-driven car
5th - King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
5th - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
8th - Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays
11th - Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
13th - 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
19th - Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
21st - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
26th - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn forms
27th - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
28th - America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 30 of 30
5th - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer
5th - Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
7th - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81)
8th - Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
8th - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
9th - Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation)
10th - John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
11th - Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor
11th - Jacov Gotovac, composer
14th - Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
14th - Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
15th - Ina Claire, actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
15th - Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
16th - Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzhubin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West)
16th - Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author (An American Verdict)
16th - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
17th - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
17th - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
18th - Ernst Levy, composer
19th - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
25th - Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet
25th - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician
25th - Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern)
25th - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
26th - Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
28th - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
29th - Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles CA, choreographer
29th - Lodovico Rocca, composer
29th - William V S Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
30th - Johann Nepomuk David, composer
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 6 of 6
1st - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61
11th - Julius Tausch, composer, dies at 68
25th - Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68
27th - A Dumas D J, writer, dies at 71
27th - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
29th - Eduard count von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62
