1893
1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
January 2 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers
January 13 - The Independent Labour 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 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 4 - End of term for President of the United States Benjamin Harrison . He is succeeded by Stephen Grover Cleveland .
March 10 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony
April 8 - First recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA .
May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair , also known as the World Columbian Exposition , opens to the public in Chicago , Illinois , USA . The first United States commemorative postage stamps were issued for the Exposition.
May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1 1/2" system of Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute .
June 6 - Marriage of Prince George , Duke of York and Mary of Teck .
June 22 ? Flagship Victoria of the British Mediterranean Fleet collides with Camperdown and sinks in 10 minutes - vice-admiral Sir George Tryon goes down with it
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
August 27 - The Sea Islands Hurricane hits Savannah , Charleston and the Sea Islands ; 1000-2000 dead.
September 11 - Opening meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
September 19 ? Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm enroute from Tallinn to Helsinki (hulk found July 2003 off Helsinki)
September 27 - Closing meeting of the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
October 10 ? First car number plates in Paris , France
October 30 - The 1893 World's Fair , also known as the World Columbian Exposition , closes.
November 7 - Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
Births
January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda , Indian guru (d. 1952 )
January 12 - Hermann Göring , Nazi official (d. 1946 )
January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg , Nazi official (d. 1946 )
January 15 - Ivor Novello , actor, musician (d. 1951 )
January 22 - Conrad Veidt , actor (d. 1943 )
February 3 - Gaston Julia , mathematician (Julia Sets ) (d. 1978 )
February 10 - Jimmy Durante , actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (d. 1980 )
February 11 - Johan Alberts Dutch literary figure.
February 12 - Omar Bradley , general (d. 1981 )
February 21 - Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist (d. 1987 )
March 1 - Mercedes de Acosta , American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968 )
March 3 - Beatrice Wood , artist/ceramist (d. 1998 )
March 26 - James Bryan Conant , chemist and politician (d. 1978 )
April 3 - Leslie Howard , actor (d. 1943 )
April 9 - Victor Gollancz , British publisher (d. 1967 )
April 23 - Allen Dulles , director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 1969 )
May 3 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia , Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975 )
May 27 - Hermann Dornemann , world's oldest man from November 19 , 2004
June 24 - Roy Oliver Disney , older brother and business partner of Walter Elias Disney (d. 1971 )
June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy (d. 1958 )
July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt (d. 1966 )
August 6 - Wright Patman , American politician (d. 1976 )
August 15 - Leslie Comrie , astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950 )
August 22 - Dorothy Parker , writer (d. 1967 )
August 30 - Huey Long , Louisiana governor and senator (d. 1935 )
September 13 - Larry Shields , jazz musician (d. 1953 )
October 1 - Marianne Brandt , industrial designer and Bauhaus participant (d. 1983 )
October 15 - King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953 )
November 8 - Clarence Williams , jazz musician (d. 1965 )
December 26 - Mao Zedong , Chinese leader (d. 1976 )
Clement Martyn Doke South African linguist (d. 1980 )
Berthold Bartosch Bohemian animator (d. 1968 )
Blind Blake influential blues singer (d. 1933 )
Deaths
January 2 - John Obadiah Westwood , British entomologist
January 7 - Jožef Stefan , Slovene physicist , mathematician and poet (b. 1835 )
January 17 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes , 19th President of the United States
January 23 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar , United States Supreme Court justice
February 20 - Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard , Confederate general
March 30 - Jane Sym-Mackenzie , First Lady of Canada
June 21 - Amasa Leland Stanford , 8th Governor of California .
October 10 - Lip Pike , baseball player
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott , Canadian politician
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