1895

Events

   * January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped
     of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island
   * February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance
     of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).
   * April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the
     John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
   * April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia
   * May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of
     "sodomy and gross indecency" and sentenced to serve two years in a
     London prison.
   * August 19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin,
     is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
   * September 3 - The first professional football game is played, in
     Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette
     Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
   * November 8 - Wilhelm Ršntgen discovers a type of radiation later known
     as X-rays.
   * Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator
   * Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone

Births

   * January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
   * January 20 - George Burns, actor, comedian († 1996)
   * January 21 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (†
     1972)
   * January 24 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (+ 1976)
   * January 30 - Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader( + 1936)
   * February 2 - George Halas, American football player, coach, co-founder
     of the National Football League (+ 1983)
   * February 6 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1948)
   * February 8 - King Vidor, director (+ 1982)
   * February 11 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer.
   * February 14 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (+ 1973)
   * February 21 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the
     1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (+ 1976)
   * March 3 - Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, United
     States Army Chief of Staff
   * March 17 - Shemp Howard, actor ("The Three Stooges") (+ 1955)
   * March 20 - Robert Benoist, Grand Prix motor racing driver/war hero
   * March 29 - Ernst Jźnger, author (+ 1998)
   * March 30 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (+ 1975)
   * April 1 - Alberta Hunter, singer (+ 1984)
   * April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
   * April 26 - Nathaniel Kleitman, sleep researcher (+ 1999)
   * May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor
   * May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen, bishop, television personality (+ 1979)
   * May 9 - Richard Bathelmess, actor (+ 1963)
   * July 10 - Carl Orff, German composer (+ 1982)
   * July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
   * September 11 - Vinoba Bhave
   * September 28 - Louis Pasteur, French chemist
   * October 2 - Bud Abbott, actor
   * October 4 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
   * October 8 - Ahmet Zog, King of Albania
   * October 19 - Lewis Mumford, historian
   * October 21 - Edna Purviance, actress
   * November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
   * December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom

Deaths

   * February 20 - Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.
   * March 2 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter
   * March 10 - Charles Frederick Worth couturier
   * May 19 - Jose Marti, Cuban independence leader
   * June 29 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
   * October 25 - Charles HallŽ, pianist and conductor
   * November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, author, playwright

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