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1895 Calendar

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•  January 5, 1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
•  April 6, 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
•  May 24, 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
•  May 25, 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
•  June 20, 1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
•  July 11, 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
•  August 19, 1895 – American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
•  September 18, 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
•  December 28, 1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

•  January 4, 1895 – Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
•  January 29, 1895 – Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
•  March 30, 1895 – Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970)
•  April 15, 1895 – Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
•  May 17, 1895 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2010)
•  August 17, 1895 – Aris Maliagros, Greek actor (d. 1984)
•  September 18, 1895 – Walter Koch. German astrologer (d. 1970)
•  October 8, 1895 – Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)
•  November 5, 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956)
•  November 17, 1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)