1893 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1893?
- January 13, 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- February 1, 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- February 28, 1893 – The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
- March 1, 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
- March 18, 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
- April 1, 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- April 6, 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- April 8, 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- May 1, 1893 – The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- June 20, 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
- July 6, 1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
- July 11, 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- July 25, 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- September 19, 1893 – Women’s suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
- October 28, 1893 – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death.
- November 12, 1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
- November 28, 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- November 29, 1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
- December 4, 1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Police officers is killed in battle by an estimated 3,000 Ndebele on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
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