Page 7: Historical Events In 1894
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Jul 23 Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show) 


Jul 24 Walter Schulthess, composer. 


Jul 25 Walter Brennan, American actor is born 


Jul 26 Aldous Huxley, English novelist is born 


Jul 26 Aldous L Huxley, Surrey England, author (Brave New World). 


Jul 27 Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean). 


Jul 31 Roy Bargy, Mich, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show) 


Aug 02 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain. 


Aug 03 George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69 


Aug 03 Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit) 


Aug 11 Wilhelm Grosz, composer 


Aug 13 Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director 


Aug 16 George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO). 


Aug 16 Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70. 


Aug 16 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith 


Aug 17 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author (Jorden). 


Aug 17 Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4 


Aug 18 Congress creates Bureau of Immigration 


Aug 18 William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57 


Aug 22 Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights). 


Aug 23 Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor (Midnight Girl) 


Aug 24 Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark). 


Aug 25 -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed 


Aug 26 PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok 


Aug 26 Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms. 


Aug 27 Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort). 


Aug 27 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court 


Aug 28 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower). 


Aug 29 E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962 


Aug 30 Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger 


Aug 31 Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases 


Sep 02 -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens. 


Sep 02 Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist/writer (Hotel Savoy). 


Sep 04 In NYC, 12000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops 


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