Page 4: Historical Events In 1895

Mar 22   Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their inaugural movie to an invited audience   

Mar 22   Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents).   

Mar 23   Dane Rudhyar, composer.   

Mar 24   Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party).   

Mar 25   Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia).   

Mar 26   In this year, King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day   

Mar 28   Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church.   

Mar 30   British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge.   

Mar 30   Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)   

Mar 31   John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man).   

Apr 01   Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)   

Apr 03   Bjarne Brustad, composer.   

Apr 04   Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party).   

Apr 05   Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices.   

Apr 05   Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the 3 Students" (BG)   

Apr 05   Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)   

Apr 05   Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested for "Gross Behavior"   

Apr 05   Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested.   

Apr 07   Eduardo Toldra, composer.   

Apr 08   Bert I Gordon, NY   

Apr 09   Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)   

Apr 11   Anaheim completes it's new electric light system   

Apr 13   Olga Rudge, violinist.   

Apr 13   Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG).   

Apr 13   Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" (BG)   

Apr 14   1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony   

Apr 14   Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance).   

Apr 15   Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte).   

Apr 15   Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)   

Apr 17   Bert Wheeler, actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers)   

Apr 17   Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)   

Apr 17   Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends inaugural Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).   

Apr 18   Anton F Pieck, Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel) [or April 19].   

Apr 18   New York State passed an act that established free public baths! They were to be open 14 hours a day and provide hot and cold water.   

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Jan 01   J edgar hoover: Mr fbi   

Jan 01   Nathaniel shilkret: Nyc, conductor   

Jan 02   Count folke bernadotte: Sweden, statesman (red cross, un)   

Jan 03   Boris mykolayovich lyatoshyns'ky: Composer   

Jan 04   Lourens g m baas becking: Dutch botanist/resistance fighter   

Jan 04   Leroy grumman: American industrialist   

Jan 05   Jeannette piccard: Balloonist/episcopal priest   

Jan 05   Elizabeth cotten: American musician    

Jan 03   James merritt ives: American lithographer with nathaniel currier (b. 1824)   

Jan 09   Aaron lufkin dennison: American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)   

Jan 10   Benjamin louis paul godard: Composer,    

Jan 22   Edward solomon: Composer,    

Jan 24   Lord randolph churchill: British politician (b. 1849)   

Jan 26   Arthur cayley: Mathematician,    

Jan 28   Francois certain de canrobert: French marshal,    

Feb 02   Archduke albert: Austrian general (b. 1817)