1894 Calendar
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1894 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1894
– The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
January 9, 1894
– New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
February 7, 1894
– The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
April 30, 1894
– Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
May 11, 1894
– Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
May 21, 1894
– The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
September 15, 1894
– First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
September 17, 1894
– The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
November 1, 1894
– Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
November 21, 1894
– Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.
Who Were Born On 1894?
January 8, 1894
– Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
January 10, 1894
– Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet (d. 1972)
April 10, 1894
– Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983)
June 14, 1894
– Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
June 15, 1894
– Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (d. 1981)
September 13, 1894
– Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
November 2, 1894
– Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
November 13, 1894
– Artur Nebe, German SS officer (d. 1945)
November 26, 1894
– James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
December 2, 1894
– Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)