Page 6: Historical Events In 1895

May 25   In this year, 20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar claims in 1:50.5   

May 25   Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite.   

May 26   Dorothea Lange, US documentary photographer   

May 27   British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector.   

May 27   Marij Kogoj, composer   

May 30   Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's).   

May 30   W G Grace scores his 1000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days   

Jun 03   Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia and Western Dominance)   

Jun 04   Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32).   

Jun 05   August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)   

Jun 10   Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)   

Jun 11   1st auto race   

Jun 11   Charles E. Duryea receives the inaugural U.S. patent to an American inventor for a gas-powered automobile   

Jun 11   Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)   

Jun 13   In this year, Emile Levassor claims 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph).   

Jun 13   In this year, mile Levassor claims inaugural Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)   

Jun 14   Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish Upon a Star)   

Jun 15   Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72.   

Jun 16   Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel and Hardy)   

Jun 17   Slavko Osterc, composer.   

Jun 17   US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan.   

Jun 18   Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian.   

Jun 20   1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)   

Jun 20   A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe.   

Jun 20   inaugural female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)   

Jun 20   Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-lived confederation   

Jun 21   British Roseberry govt falls.   

Jun 23   Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44   

Jun 24   Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26).   

Jun 26   Jankel Adler, Polish painter   

Jun 28   El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union.   

Jun 28   Kazimierz Sikorski, composer.   

Jun 29   Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.   

Jul 02   William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72   

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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)