1894 Calendar
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1894 Historical Event(s)
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.
February 13, 1894
– Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
April 30, 1894
– Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
May 1, 1894
– Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
May 21, 1894
– The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
July 4, 1894
– The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
September 1, 1894
– More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
October 15, 1894
– The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
November 1, 1894
– Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
Who Were Born On 1894?
February 6, 1894
– Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
February 8, 1894
– King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)
March 17, 1894
– Paul Green, American writer (d. 1981)
June 21, 1894
– Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
September 8, 1894
– Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and critic (d. 1947)
October 12, 1894
– Elisabeth of Romania (d. 1956)
November 17, 1894
– Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
November 27, 1894
– Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
December 17, 1894
– Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
December 19, 1894
– Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)