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1894
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
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
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
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