1894

Events

   * January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
     causes a good deal of damage.
   * January 9 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first
     battery-operated telephone switchboard (Lexington, Massachusetts).
   * March 12 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
   * March 25 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march,
     departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
   * May 1 - Coxey's Army arrives in Washington D.C.
   * May 11 - Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company
     workers go on a "wildcat" (without Union approval) strike in Illinois.
   * June 23 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne,
     Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
   * July 4 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B.
     Dole.
   * September 1 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota
     kills more than 400 people.
   * September 4 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop
     working conditions.
   * October 24 - Nicholas II succeeds his father Alexander III as Tsar of
     All Russias.
   * December 18 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to
     gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
   * December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.

Births

   * Chaim Soutine, painter
   * January 20 - Walter Piston, composer
   * January 30 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (+ 1943)
   * February 1 - John Ford, director, producer (+ 1973)
   * February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse, author and philosopher (+ 1971)
   * February 10 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain (+
     1986)
   * February 11 - Alfonso Leng, composer.
   * February 11 - Isaac Kolthooff chemist
   * February 14 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (+ 1974)
   * February 28 - Ben Hecht, playwright, film writer (+ 1964)
   * March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (+
     1981)
   * March 19 - Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist (+ 1978)
   * March 19 - Moms Mabley, comedienne (+ 1975)
   * April 15 - Bessie Smith, blues singer.
   * April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader.
   * April 26 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (+ 1987)
   * May 11 - Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer (+ 1991)
   * May 20 - Adela Rogers St. Johns, author (+ 1988)
   * May 27 - Dashiell Hammett, author of detective novels (+1961)
   * May 31 - Fred Allen, comedian.
   * June 14 - Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg
   * June 23 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
   * September 15 - Jean Renoir, Film Director
   * October 7 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (+ 1970)
   * October 14 - E. E. Cummings, American poet.
   * October 25 - Claude Cahun, Photographer and Writer (Born Lucy Schwob)
     (+ 1954)

Deaths

   * February 4 - Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone
   * February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
   * March 30 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer
   * June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae Expert on Byzantine Law
   * October 24 - Alexander III of Russia, Tsar
   * November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer
   * December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson, author
   * December 12 - John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian prime minister

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