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'''1893''' ('''
Roman numerals MDCCCXCIII''') was a
common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-June
*
January 1 -
Japan accepts the
Gregorian calendar
*
January 2 - Introduction by
Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America:
Railroad chronometers
*
January 13 - The
Independent Labour Party of the
United Kingdom UK has its first meeting.
*
January 17 -
Invasion Intervention by the
United States Marine Corps U.S. Marines in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of government of Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii
*
January 21 - First "performance" of the
Cherry sisters in
Marion, Iowa. Their neighbors are uncritical and the sisters decide to launch a tour
*
February 1 -
Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first
film motion picture studio (
West Orange, New Jersey).
*
February 21 -
Thomas Edison receives two U.S.
patents. The first is for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."
*
February 23 -
Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the
diesel engine
*
March 4 - End of term for
President of the United States Benjamin Harrison. He is succeeded by
Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland.
*
March 10 -
Côte d'Ivoire becomes a
France French colony
*
March 20 - In Belgium,
Adam Worth is sentenced for seven year for robbery (he is released
1897)
*
April 8 - First recorded
college basketball game occurs in
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the
Geneva College Covenanters and the
New Brighton, Pennsylvania New Brighton YMCA.
*
May 1 - The
World's Columbian Exposition 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in
Chicago, Illinois,
United States USA. The first United States commemorative
postage stamps were issued for the Exposition.
*
May 5 -
Panic of 1893: Crash on the
New York Stock Exchange starts a
depression (economics) depression.
*
May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1 1/2" system of
Kinetoscope at the
Brooklyn Institute.
*
May 10 - The
United States Supreme Court legally declares the
tomato to be a
vegetable.
*
May 24 - The
Niagara Falls Park and River Railway opens.
*
June 6 - Marriage of
George V of the United Kingdom Prince George,
Duke of York and
Mary of Teck.
*
June 7 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
*
June 17 Gold found in
Kalgoorlie Western Australia
*
June 22 -
Flagship ''Victoria'' of the
British Mediterranean Fleet collides with ''Camperdown'' and sinks in 10 minutes - vice-admiral Sir
George Tryon goes down with it
July-December
*
July 6 - The small town of
Pomeroy, Iowa was nearly destroyed by a tornado. Seventy-one people were killed and two hundred were injured.
*
July 11 -
Kokichi Mikimoto develops the method to achieve cultured
pearls.
*
July 12 -
Frederick Jackson Turner gives his famous lecture entitled "
The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the
American Historical Association in
Chicago, Illinois Chicago
*
August 27 - The
Sea Islands Hurricane hits
Savannah, Georgia Savannah,
Charleston, South Carolina Charleston and the
Sea Islands; 1000-2000 dead.
*
September 11 - Opening meeting of the
World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
*
September 19 - Russian
ironclad ''
Rusalka (ship) Rusalka'' disappears in a storm en route from
Tallinn to
Helsinki (''hulk found July 2003 off Helsinki'')
*
September 23 - First public mention of the
Bahá'à Faith in the
United States at the
World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
*
September 27 - Closing meeting of the
World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
*
October 10 - First car number plates in
Paris,
France
*
October 30 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the
World's Columbian Exposition, closes.
*
November 7 -
Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
Exact month/day of event unknown
*
New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the vote.
*
American Council on Alcohol Problems established.
* Global financial panic (
Panic of 1893)
*
Physics Physicist Wilhelm Wien formulates
Wien's displacement law
*
France conquers
Vietnam.
*
General strike in
Belgium
*
American Temperance University opened.
*
Milbank Penitentiary in Britain demolished
* US President Cleveland operated on in secret
* The
Wengernalpbahn in
Wengen, Switzerland (
Canton of Bern) is opened.
* Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady is founded. Later the team was renamed to
Sparta Prague
*
Anti-Saloon League established in U.S. to promote
temperance movement
*
Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem established.
*
Adalbert Goeringer invented a compass to measure the
Golden Section.
Births
January
*
January 5 -
Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d.
1952)
*
January 12 -
Hermann Göring, Nazi official (d.
1946)
*
January 12 -
Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (d.
1946)
*
January 15 -
Ivor Novello, Welsh actor and musician (d.
1951)
*
January 22 -
Conrad Veidt, German actor (d.
1943)
*
January 27 -
Soong Ching-ling(宋慶齡), one of the
Soong sisters, wife of
Sun Yat-sen(å«é€¸ä»™, å«æ–‡) (d.
1981)
February
*
February 3 -
Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d.
1978)
*
February 10 -
Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (d.
1980)
*
February 12 -
Omar Bradley, American general (d.
1981)
*
February 16 -
Katharine Cornell, American actress (d. 1974)
*
February 21 -
Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d.
1987)
March
*
March 1 -
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d.
1968)
*
March 3 -
Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d.
1998)
*
March 18 -
Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (d.
1918)
April
*
April 3 -
Leslie Howard, English actor (d.
1943)
*
April 9 -
Victor Gollancz, British publisher (d.
1967)
*
April 12 -
Robert Harron, American actor (d.
1920)
*
April 23 -
Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d.
1969)
*
April 29 -
Harold C. Urey, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1981)
May
*
May 3 -
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d.
1975)
*
May 26 -
Norma Talmadge, American actress (d.
1957)
*
May 23 -
Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d.
1977)
June
*
June 24 -
Roy Oliver Disney, brother and business partner of
Walter Elias Disney (d.
1971)
*
June 26 -
Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer and composer (d.
1958)
July
*
July 3 -
Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d.
1966)
*
July 9 -
George Geary, English cricketer (d.
1981)
*
July 25 -
Dorothy Dickson, American-born actress and socialite (d.
1995)
August
*
August 6 -
Wright Patman, American politician (d.
1976)
*
August 15 -
Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d.
1950)
*
August 22 -
Dorothy Parker, American writer (d.
1967)
* August 22 -
Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of
The Salvation Army (d.
1977)
*
August 25 -
Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d.
1962)
*
August 30 -
Huey Long,
Louisiana governor and senator (d.
1935)
September
*
September 13 -
Larry Shields, American musician (d.
1953)
*
September 16 -
Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1986)
October
*
October 1 -
Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (d.
1983)
*
October 9 -
Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d.
1945)
*
October 14 -
Lillian Gish, American actress (d.
1993)
*
October 15 - King
Carol II of Romania (d.
1953)
*
October 18 -
Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d.
1966)
November
*
November 3 -
Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1986)
*
November 8 -
Clarence Williams, American jazz musician (d.
1965)
* November 8 -
Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d.
1941)
December
*
December 24 -
Ruth Chatterton, American actress (d. 1961)
*
December 26 -
Mao Zedong, Chinese leader (d.
1976)
Exact month/day of birth unknown
*
Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (d.
1980)
*
Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (d.
1968)
Deaths
*
January 2 -
John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist
*
January 7 -
Joseph Stefan Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (b.
1835)
*
January 17 -
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th
President of the United States
*
January 23 -
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II) Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court justice
*
February 1 -
George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco
*
February 20 -
P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general
*
March 30 -
Jane Sym Jane Sym-Mackenzie, First Lady of Canada
*
June 21 -
Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California
*
June 23 - Sir
Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (b.
1817)
*
October 10 -
Lip Pike, baseball player
*
October 18 -
Charles Gounod, French composer (b.
1818)
*
October 30 -
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian politician
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