1895

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

Years: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 - 1895 - 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900

Events

• January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island
• February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).
• April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
• April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia
• May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and sentenced to serve two years in a London prison.
• August 19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
• 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.).
• November 5 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
• 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).
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator
• Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone

Year in topic

• 1895 in film
• 1895 in literature
• 1895 in music
• 1895 in sports

Births

• January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
• January 20 - George Burns, actor, comedian (d. 1996)
• January 21 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972)
• January 24 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (d. 1976)
• January 30 - Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader( d. 1936)
• February 2 - George Halas, American football player, coach, co-founder of the National Football League (d. 1983)
• February 6 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948)
• February 8 - King Vidor, director (d. 1982)
• February 11 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer.
• February 14 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
• February 21 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
• March 3 - Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff
• March 17 - Shemp Howard, actor ("The Three Stooges") (d. 1955)
• March 20 - Robert Benoist, Grand Prix motor racing driver/war hero
• March 29 - Ernst Jünger, author (d. 1998)
• March 30 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975)
• April 1 - Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984)
• April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
• April 26 - Nathaniel Kleitman, sleep researcher (d. 1999)
• May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor
• May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen, bishop, television personality (d. 1979)
• May 9 - Richard Bathelmess, actor (d. 1963)
• July 10 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
• July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
• September 11 - Vinoba Bhave
• September 28 - Louis Pasteur, French chemist
• October 2 - Bud Abbott, actor
• October 4 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
• October 8 - Ahmet Zog, King of Albania
• October 19 - Lewis Mumford, historian
• October 21 - Edna Purviance, actress
• October 25 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
• November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
• December 2 - Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967)
• December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom

Deaths

• February 20 - Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.
• March 2 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter
• March 10 - Charles Frederick Worth couturier
• May 19 - Jose Marti, Cuban independence leader (Dos Rios)
• May 21 - Franz von Suppé, composer
• June 29 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
• October 25 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor
• November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, author, playwright

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