1893 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1893?
- January 6, 1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
- January 13, 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- January 21, 1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
- February 1, 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 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 6, 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- May 1, 1893 – The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- May 10, 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
- 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 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
- July 25, 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- September 7, 1893 – The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
- September 16, 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- 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.
- September 20, 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- 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 28, 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- 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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