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1893

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1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

1893 - Events

• 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 UK has its first meeting.
• January 17 - Intervention by the 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 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 Stephen Grover Cleveland.
• March 10 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a 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 YMCA.
• May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, Illinois, 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.
• May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1 1/2" system of Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute.
• June 6 - Marriage of Prince George, Duke of York and Mary of Teck.
• June 7 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
• 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 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
• June 20 - Lizzie Borden acquitted of murder of her father and stepmother
• June 22 – Flagship HMS Victoria of the British Mediterranean Fleet collides with HMS Camperdown and sinks in 10 minutes - vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with it
• August 27 - The Sea Islands Hurricane hits Savannah, 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 disappears in a storm en route from Tallinn to Helsinki (hulk found July 2003 off Helsinki)
• 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.

• 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)
• Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's 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.

1893 - Births

• 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)
• 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 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 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 laureate (d. 1981)
• 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 24 - Roy Oliver Disney, brother and business partner of Walter Elias Disney (d. 1971)
• July 25 - Dorothy Dickson, American-born actress and socialite (d. 1995)
• June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer and composer (d. 1958)
• July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
• July 9 - George Geary, English cricketer (d. 1981)
• 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 30 - Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator (d. 1935)
• September 13 - Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
• September 16 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 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 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)
• December 24 - Ruth Chatterton, American actress (d. 1961)
• December 26 - Mao Zedong, Chinese leader (d. 1976)

1893 - Exact month/day of birth unknown

• Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (d. 1980)
• Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (d. 1968)

1893 - Deaths

• January 2 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist
• January 7 - 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, 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-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

1893 - Marriages

• January 7 - Mary Gish & James Leigh de Guiche
• April 20 - King Ferdinand & Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
• May 2 - Marie Eve & August Strindberg
• May 30 - Israël Querido & Janet Sjouwerman
• July 6 - George V & Queen Mary
• December 12 - Rupert Hughes & Agnes Wheeler Hedge

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