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1893 Calendar

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•  January 17, 1893 – The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
•  January 19, 1893 – Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
•  January 21, 1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
•  March 1, 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
•  May 10, 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
•  July 11, 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
•  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.
•  November 12, 1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.

•  January 16, 1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
•  April 3, 1893 – Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943)
•  April 29, 1893 – Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
•  July 19, 1893 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
•  August 1, 1893 – King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
•  August 18, 1893 – Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
•  September 11, 1893 – Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
•  September 30, 1893 – Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
•  October 1, 1893 – Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
•  October 30, 1893 – Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (d. 1945)