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1894 (''' MDCCCXCIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
- January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- January 8 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois causes a good deal of damage.
- January 9 - New England Telephone And Telegraph installs the first Battery -operated Telephone Switchboard ( Lexington, Massachusetts ).
- , French Anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory , London , England with a bomb.
- March 1 - Thomas McGreevy , Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government
- March 12 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
- March 15 - Anarchist Jean Pauwels dies in a Madeline Church in Paris when his bomb explodes in his pocket
- March 25 - Coxey's Army , the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
May-August
September-December
Unknown dates
Births
January-March
- January 1 - Satyendra Nath Bose , Indian physicist (d. 1974 )
- January 20 - Walter Piston , American composer (d. 1976 )
- January 30 - King Boris III Of Bulgaria (d. 1943 )
- January 31 - Isham Jones , American jazz musician (d. 1956 )
- February 1 - John Ford , American director and producer (d. 1973 )
- February 3 - Norman Rockwell , American artist and illustrator (d. 1978 )
- February 8 - Ludwig Marcuse , German philosopher (d. 1971 )
- February 10 - Harold Macmillan , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1986 )
- February 11 - Alfonso Leng , Chilean composer (d. 1974 )
- February 14 - Jack Benny , American actor and comedian (d. 1974 )
- February 25 - Meher Baba , Avatar of the Age, was born in India (d. 1969 )
- February 28 - Ben Hecht , American playwright, and film writer (d. 1964 )
- March 17 - Paul Green , novelist and Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright (d. 1981 )
- March 19 - Moms Mabley , American comedienne (d. 1975 )
April-June
- April 10 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla , Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationist (d. 1983 )
- April 13 - Arthur Fadden , thirteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1973 )
- April 15 - Bessie Smith , American blues singer (d. 1937 )
- April 17 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev , Soviet politician (d. 1971 )
- April 26 - Rudolf Hess , Nazi official (d. 1987 )
- May 11 - Martha Graham , American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991 )
- May 16 - Walter Yust , American encyclopædia editor (d. 1960 )
- May 27 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline , French writer (d. 1961 )
- May 27 - Dashiell Hammett , American author (d. 1961 )
- May 31 - Fred Allen , American comedian (d. 1956 )
- June 5 - Roy Thomson , Canadian publisher (d. 1976 )
- June 9 - Nedo Nadi , Italian fencer (d. 1940 )
- June 14 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess Of Luxembourg (d. 1924 )
- June 23 - King Edward VIII Of The United Kingdom (d. 1972 )
July-September
- July 9 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984 )
- July 18 - Isaac Babel , Ukrainian writer (d. 1940 )
- July 19 - Khawaja Nazimuddin , second Prime Minister Of Pakistan (d. 1965 )
- July 26 - Aldous Huxley , English author (d. 1963 )
- August 3 - Harry Heilmann , baseball player (d. 1951 )
- August 28 - Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor (d. 1981 )
- September 2 - Joseph Roth , Austrian writer (d. 1939 )
- September 13 - J. B. Priestley , English novelist and playwright (d. 1984 )
- September 13 - Julian Tuwim , Polish poet (d. 1953 )
- September 15 - Jean Renoir , French film director (d. 1979 )
- September 24 - Tommy Armour , Scottish golfer (d. 1968 )
October-December
- October 5 - Bevil Rudd , South African athlete (d. 1948 )
- October 7 - Del Lord , Hollywood director (d. 1970 )
- October 14 - E. E. Cummings , American poet (d. 1962 )
- October 15 - Moshe Sharett , second Prime Minister Of Israel (d. 1965 )
- October 25 - Claude Cahun , French photographer and writer (d. 1954 )
- November 2 - Alexander Lippisch , German aerodynamics engineer (d. 1976 )
- November 24 - Herbert Sutcliffe , English cricketer (d. 1978 )
- November 26 - Norbert Wiener , American mathematician (d. 1964 )
- November 29 - Lucille Hegamin , American singer and entertainer (d. 1970 )
- December 17 - Arthur Fiedler , American conductor (d. 1979 )
- December 20 - Robert Menzies , twelfth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1978 )
- December 31 - Pola Negri , Polish actress (d. 1987 )
Unknown date
Deaths
- January 1 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz , German physicist (b. 1857 )
- February 4 - Adolphe Sax , Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814 )
- February 6 - Maria Deraismes , French feminist (b. 1828 )
- February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta Y Corera , composer
- June 3 - Karl Eduard Zachariae , German jurist and expert on Byzantine law (b. 1812 )
- October 24 - Tsar Alexander III Of Russia (b. 1845 )
- November 20 - Anton Rubinstein , Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829 )
- November 25 - Solomon Caesar Malan , Swiss-born orientalist (b. 1812 )
- December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (b. 1850 )
- December 9 - Pafnuty Chebyshev , Russian mathematician (b. 1821 )
- December 12 - John Sparrow David Thompson , Prime Minister Of Canada (b. 1845 )
Fictional events of the year
Sherlock Holmes returns to London from "The Great Hiatus".
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