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1895 Calendar

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•  February 24, 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
•  March 19, 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
•  June 27, 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
•  June 28, 1895 – Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
•  September 7, 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
•  October 4, 1895 – The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
•  October 8, 1895 – Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
•  November 5, 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
•  November 8, 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
•  December 28, 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.

•  March 28, 1895 – Christian Herter, American politician (d. 1966)
•  June 5, 1895 – William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
•  July 19, 1895 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
•  September 18, 1895 – John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
•  October 7, 1895 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (d. 1980)
•  October 25, 1895 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
•  November 16, 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
•  December 4, 1895 – Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
•  December 9, 1895 – Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
•  December 19, 1895 – Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (d. 1986)