1894

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 - 1894 - 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

Events

• January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
• January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts).
• February 15 - 04:51 GMT , French anarchist Martial Boudin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory , London, England with a bomb.
• March 12 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
• March 25 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
• May - outbreak of bubonic plague in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong. The disease killed a total of 2,552 people in the territory that year
• May 1 - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
• May 11 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
• June 23 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• July 4 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• September 1 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 400 people.
• September 4 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
• October 20 (O.S.) = November 1 (N.S.) - Russian Tsar Alexander III dies and is succeeded by his son Nicholas II.
• December 18 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
• December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1894 in film
• 1894 in literature
• 1894 in music
• 1894 in sports
  • March 22 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

Births

• Chaim Soutine, painter
• January 20 - Walter Piston, composer
• January 30 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
• February 1 - John Ford, director, producer (d. 1973)
• February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse, author and philosopher (d. 1971)
• February 10 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1986)
• February 11 - Alfonso Leng, composer.
• February 11 - Isaac Kolthooff chemist
• February 14 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (d. 1974)
• February 28 - Ben Hecht, playwright, film writer (d. 1964)
• March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (d. 1981)
• March 19 - Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist (d. 1978)
• March 19 - Moms Mabley, comedienne (d. 1975)
• April 10 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist.
• April 15 - Bessie Smith, blues singer.
• April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader.
• April 26 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
• May 11 - Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer (d. 1991)
• May 20 - Adela Rogers St. Johns, author (d. 1988)
• May 27 - Dashiell Hammett, author of detective novels (d. 1961)
• May 31 - Fred Allen, comedian.
• June 14 - Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg
• June 23 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
• July 19 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, second Prime Minister of Pakistan (+ 1965)
• September 13 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1984)
• September 15 - Jean Renoir, Film Director
• September 24 - Tommy Armour, professional golfer (d. 1968)
• October 5 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
• October 7 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970)
• October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet.
• October 15 - Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
• October 25 - Claude Cahun, Photographer and Writer (Born Lucy Schwob) (d. 1954)
• November 2 - Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (d. 1976)

Deaths

• February 4 - Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone
• February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
• March 30 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer
• June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae Expert on Byzantine Law
• October 24 - Alexander III of Russia, Tsar
• November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer
• November 25 - Solomon Caesar Malan, orientalist (b. 1812)
• December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author
• December 12 - John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian prime minister

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