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1893 Historical Event(s)
January 13, 1893
– U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
March 18, 1893
– Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
May 1, 1893
– The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
June 7, 1893
– Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
June 13, 1893
– Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.
July 6, 1893
– The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
September 16, 1893
– Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
September 20, 1893
– Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
November 7, 1893
– Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
December 23, 1893
– The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
Who Were Born On 1893?
January 26, 1893
– Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
February 15, 1893
– Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (d. 1947)
March 4, 1893
– Adolph Lowe (born Adolf Löwe), German sociologist and economist (d. 1995)
March 27, 1893
– Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
May 8, 1893
– Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman (d. 1967)
June 13, 1893
– Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
August 17, 1893
– Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
September 6, 1893
– Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
September 28, 1893
– Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
October 18, 1893
– George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher (d. 1966)