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Months in Year 1895: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 101 - 132 of 132

Sep 30th - France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
Oct 1st - Romanians in Costantinople massacred
Oct 2nd - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
Oct 4th - 1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI
Oct 4th - Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
Oct 5th - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
Oct 8th - Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
Oct 11th - Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
Oct 21st - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
Oct 22nd - David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in NYC
Oct 22nd - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
Nov 2nd - 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½
Nov 5th - 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
Nov 5th - George Selden patents 1st gasoline-driven car
Nov 5th - King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
Nov 5th - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
Nov 8th - Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays
Nov 11th - Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
Nov 13th - 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
Nov 19th - Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
Nov 21st - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
Nov 26th - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn forms
Nov 27th - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
Nov 28th - America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
Dec 2nd - 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
Dec 7th - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
Dec 8th - Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out
Dec 13th - 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony
Dec 17th - Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
Dec 17th - George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
Dec 28th - World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris
Dec 29th - Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 331

Apr 15th - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
Apr 16th - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
Apr 17th - Bert Wheeler, actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers)
Apr 18th - Anton F Pieck, Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel) [or April 19]
Apr 20th - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
Apr 23rd - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
Apr 24th - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
Apr 25th - Stanley Rous, British soccer official
Apr 29th - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
Apr 30th - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
May 1st - Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
May 2nd - Alfred Kurella, writer
May 2nd - Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
May 2nd - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
May 3rd - Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
May 3rd - Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
May 3rd - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
May 6th - Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
May 6th - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946)
May 6th - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974)
May 8th - Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
May 8th - Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
May 8th - Jose Gomez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
May 8th - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
May 9th - Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
May 9th - Richard Barthelmess, NYC, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
May 11th - Jan Parandowski, writer
May 11th - William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
May 12th - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22]
May 14th - Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
May 14th - Renato Lunelli, composer
May 15th - Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
May 15th - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
May 19th - Albert Hay Malotte, composer
May 19th - Cecil Gray, composer
May 20th - Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire)
May 22nd - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12]
May 24th - H S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI)
May 24th - Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
May 26th - Dorothea Lange, US documentary photographer
May 26th - Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx)
May 27th - Marij Kogoj, composer
May 30th - Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
Jun 3rd - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
Jun 4th - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
Jun 5th - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
Jun 5th - William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
Jun 10th - Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
Jun 11th - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
Jun 14th - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish Upon a Star)
Jun 14th - Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
Jun 14th - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (d. 1968)
Jun 16th - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
Jun 17th - Slavko Osterc, composer
Jun 18th - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian
Jun 24th - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
Jun 26th - Jankel Adler, Polish painter
Jun 26th - George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
Jun 28th - Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
Jul 3rd - Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, composer
Jul 4th - Irving Caesar, songwriter
Jul 4th - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
Jul 4th - Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
Jul 5th - Gordon Jacob, composer
Jul 8th - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (God & the Worms)
Jul 9th - Cullen Landis, Nashville TN, actor (Soul of the Beast)
Jul 10th - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)
Jul 10th - John Gilbert, [Pringle], Logan UT, actor (Heart o' the Hills)
Jul 10th - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court
Jul 10th - Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization
Jul 11th - Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
Jul 12th - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
Jul 12th - Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
Jul 12th - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
Jul 13th - Sidney Blackmer, Salisbury NC, actor (Ted Roosevelt in 12 movies)
Jul 14th - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
Jul 18th - Marie Ney, London England, actress (Brief Ecstasy, Simba, Witchcraft)
Jul 18th - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
Jul 19th - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
Jul 20th - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
Jul 21st - H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31)
Jul 21st - Ken Maynard, Texas, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot)
Jul 23rd - Florence Vidor, [Arto], Houston TX, actress (Jack Knife Man)
Jul 23rd - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
Jul 25th - Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
Jul 26th - Jerry Verno, London England, actor (River of Unrest, Sweeney Todd)
Jul 26th - Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26]
Jul 26th - Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
Jul 29th - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author
Jul 30th - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
Aug 1st - Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University)
Aug 2nd - Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)
Aug 3rd - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
Aug 7th - Edward Gill, baseball player
Aug 8th - Law Pendleton, US, wrestler/actor (Laughing Lady)
Aug 9th - Fred Badcock, cricketer (swing bowler in NZ's 1st Test matches)
Aug 9th - Nat Pendleton, Davenport IA, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless)
Aug 10th - Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author
Aug 10th - Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
Aug 13th - Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)

Famous Deaths

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