1893

Events

   * 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition
   * January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
   * January 13 - The Independent Labor Party of the UK has its first
     meeting.
   * January 17 - American sugar planters overthrow the government of Queen
     Liliuokalani of Hawaii
   * February 1 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion
     picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
   * February - Thomas Edison builds a film studio ("Black Maria"), where
     the earliest Edison motion pictures were filmed.
   * February 21 - Thomas Edison received two U.S. patents. The first was
     for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop
     Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating
     Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."
   * February 23 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine
   * March 10 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
   * May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1 1/2" system of
     Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute.
   * July 11 - Kokichi Mikimoto develops the method to achieve cultured
     pearls.
   * July 12 - Frederick Jackson Turner gives his famous lecture entitled
     "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the
     American Historical Association in Chicago

   * Change of US presidency from Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) to Grover
     Cleveland (1893-1897)
   * First United States commemorative postage stamps issued for the
     Columbian Exposition
   * The first World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago
   * Global financial panic (Panic of 1893)
   * Physicist Wilhelm Wien composes Wien's Law
   * France conquers Vietnam.

Births

   * January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
   * January 12 - Hermann Gšring, Nazi offical (+ 1946)
   * January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (+ 1946)
   * January 15 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician (+ 1951)
   * January 22 - Conrad Veidt, actor (+ 1943)
   * February 10 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (+
     1980)
   * February 11 - Johan Alberts Dutch literary figure.
   * February 12 - Omar Bradley, general (+ 1981)
   * February 21 - AndrŽs Segovia, musician (+ 1987)
   * March 3 - Beatrice Wood, artist/ceramist
   * March 26 - James Bryan Conant, chemist and politician (+ 1978)
   * April 3 - Leslie Howard, actor (+ 1943)
   * April 7 - Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+
     1969)
   * June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy
   * July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt
   * October 15 - King Carol II of Romania
   * December 26 - Mao Zedong, Chinese leader

   * Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African linguist
   * Blind Blake - influential blues singer

Deaths

   * January 7 - Jo?ef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (*
     1835)
   * January 17 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States
   * January 23 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the only United States
     Supreme Court justice from Mississippi
   * February 20 - P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate general

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