1895
1895 (
MDCCCXCV) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower
Julian calendar).
January-April
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January 5 -
Dreyfus Affair:
French officer
Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on
Devil's Island.
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February 11 - The lowest ever
UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) was recorded at
Braemar in
Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled in
1982 and again in
1995.
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February 14 - First showing of
Oscar Wilde's last play
The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in
London).
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March 1 -
William L. Wilson is appointed
United States Postmaster General*
March 3 - In
Munich,
bicyclists have to pass a test and display
license plates
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April 6 -
Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a
libel case against the
Marquess of Queensberry.
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April 14 - a major
earthquake severely damages
Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
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April 16 - the town of
Sturgeon Falls, Ontario is incorparated.
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April 17 - The
Treaty of Shimonoseki (also known as Treaty of Maguan) was signed between
China and
Japan. This marks the end of the first
Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated
Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on
Korea and to concede the southern portion of the
Fengtien province,
Taiwan and the
Pescadores Islands to
Japan.
May-August
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May 24 - Anti-Japanese officials led by
Tang Ching-sung in
Taiwan declared independence from
Qing, forming the short-lived
Republic of Formosa.
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May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist
Oscar Wilde is convicted of "
sodomy and gross indecency" and is sentenced to serve two years in a
prison in
Reading.
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June 11 -
Britain annexes
Togoland*
June 28 - Union of
Nicaragua,
Honduras and
El Salvador begins (ends in
1898).
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July 15 -
Archie MacLaren scores
County Championship record innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
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August 19 -
American frontier murderer and outlaw,
John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a
saloon in
El Paso, Texas.
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August 29 - The sport of
rugby league is formed at a meeting in the George Hotel,
Huddersfield,
England.
September-December
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September 3 - The first professional
football game is played, in
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe
YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
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September 18 -
Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise Speech.
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September 18 - D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, delivers the first chiropractic adjustment of the spine to Harvey Lillard, allegedly restoring his hearing and founding what would become the largest licensed non-medical doctorate level health care profession in the U.S.
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November 5 -
George B. Selden is granted the first U.S.
patent for an
automobile.
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November 8 -
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of
radiation later known as
X-rays.
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November 27 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in
Paris,
Alfred Nobel signs his
last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the
Nobel Prize after he dies (he died of a
cerebral hemorrhage on
December 10,
1896).
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December 28 -
Auguste and
Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris
Unknown date
*
Dundela FC were formed in
Belfast,
Northern Ireland*
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a
space elevator* Most recent major
earthquake in the
New Madrid Fault Zone*
Grace Chisholm Young, the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university
*
W.E.B. Du Bois becomes the first
African American to receive a Ph.D. from
Harvard University*
Duck Reach Power Station opens
* The first
Boxer show was held at
Munich,
Germany.
January-February
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January 1 -
J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d.
1972)
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January 15 -
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973)
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January 21 -
Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (d.
1972)
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January 24 -
Eugen Roth, German writer (d.
1976)
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January 30 -
Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader (d.
1936)
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February 1 -
John Ford, American film director (d.
1973)
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February 2 -
George Halas, American football player, coach, and co-founder of the National Football League (d.
1983)
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February 6 -
Babe Ruth, baseball player (d.
1948)
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February 14 -
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d.
1973)
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February 15 -
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d.
1971)
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February 21 -
Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1976)
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February 25 -
Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d.
1984)
March-April
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March 3 -
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973)
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March 3 -
Matthew Ridgway, Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff (d.
1993)
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March 4 -
Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (d.
1955)
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March 4 -
Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist, composer and teacher (d.
1978)
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March 4 -
Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (d.
1953)
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March 12 -
William C. Lee, U.S. general (d.
1948)
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March 20 -
Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero (d.
1944)
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March 29 -
Ernst Jünger, German author (d.
1998)
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April 1 -
Alberta Hunter, American singer (d.
1984)
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April 3 -
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d.
1968)
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April 9 -
Mance Lipscomb, American singer (d.
1976)
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April 15 -
Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (d.
1980)
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April 20 -
Emile Christian, American musician (d.
1973)
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April 28 -
Spencer W. Kimball, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
1985)
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April 29 -
Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d.
1967)
May-September
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May 6 -
Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor (d.
1926)
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May 8 -
Fulton J. Sheen, American Catholic archbishop and television personality (d.
1979)
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May 12 -
William Giauque, Canadian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1982)
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May 15 -
William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d.
1941)
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May 30 -
Nikolai Bulganin,
Premier of the Soviet Union (d.
1975)
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May 30 -
Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d.
1956)
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June 10 -
Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d.
1952)
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July 8 -
Igor Tamm, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1971)
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July 10 -
Carl Orff, German composer (d.
1982)
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July 12 -
Kirstin Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d.
1982)
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July 12 -
Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d.
1983)
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July 24 -
Robert Graves, English writer (d.
1985)
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July 25 -
Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (d.
1977)
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July 26 -
Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d.
1964)
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August 16 -
Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d.
2000)
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September 7 - Sir
Brian Horrocks, British general (d.
1985)
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September 11 -
Vinoba Bhave, Indian religious leader (d.
1982)
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September 24 -
André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1988)
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September 29 -
Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (d.
1980)
October-December
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October 2 -
Bud Abbott, American actor (d.
1974)
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October 4 -
Buster Keaton, American actor and film director (d.
1966)
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October 8 -
Juan Perón,
President of Argentina (d.
1974)
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October 8 - King
Zog of Albania (d.
1961)
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October 10 -
Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, Indian religious leader (d.
1988)
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October 19 -
Lewis Mumford, American historian (d.
1990)
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October 21 -
Edna Purviance, American actress (d.
1958)
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October 22 -
Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (d.
1980)
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October 25 -
Levi Eshkol,
Prime Minister of Israel (d.
1969)
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October 30 -
Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d.
1964)
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October 30 -
Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1973)
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October 31 -
Basil Liddell Hart, military historian (d.
1970)
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November 5 -
Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d.
1956)
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November 10 -
John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d.
1981)
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November 15 -
Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and writer (d.
1976)
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November 16 -
Paul Hindemith, German composer (d.
1963)
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November 17 -
Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (d.
1975)
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November 25 -
Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d.
1991)
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November 29 -
Busby Berkeley, American film director and choreographer (d.
1976)
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December 2 -
Harriet Cohen, English pianist (d.
1967)
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December 14 -
Paul Eluard, French poet (d.
1952)
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December 14 - King
George VI of the United Kingdom (d.
1952)
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Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad,
King of Malaysia (d.
1960)
Unknown dates
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Manuel Angeles Ortiz,
Spanish painter (d.
1984)
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January 9 -
Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watchmaker (b.
1812)
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January 10 -
Benjamin Godard, French composer (b.
1849)
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February 2 -
Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b.
1817)
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February 20 -
Frederick Douglass, American ex-slave and author (b.
1818)
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March 2 -
Berthe Morisot, French painter (b.
1841)
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March 10 -
Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b.
1826)
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May 19 -
José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b.
1853)
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May 21 -
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b.
1819)
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June 29 - Sir
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b.
1825)
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August 5 -
Friedrich Engels, German socialist philosopher (b.
1820)
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August 22 -
Luzon B. Morris, American politician (b.
1827)
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September 28 -
Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist (b.
1822)
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October 8 -
Empress Myeongseong (Queen Min), last Korean empress (b.
1851)
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October 25 -
Charles Hallé, German-born pianist and conductor (b.
1819)
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November 27 -
Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author and playwright (b.
1824)
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December 13 -
Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist, the inventor of the
DynamoDate unknown
*
Green Clay Smith, American politician (b.
1826).
* The gold reserve of the
U.S. Treasury was saved when
J. P. Morgan and the
Rothschilds loaned $65 million worth of gold to the
United States government.
