Major Events
- Aug 25 Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet
- Nov 1 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Émile Roux of Paris
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1894 in Film & TV
- Jan 7 William K.L. Dickson captures "Fred Ott's Sneeze" as a motion picture at Thomas Edison's Black Mariah Studio, West Orange, New Jersey [1]
- Apr 14 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1894 in Music
- Mar 16 Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs" premieres in Paris, includes piece “Méditation” for violin and orchestra
- Dec 22 Claude Debussy's first orchestral masterpiece "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris
1894 in Sport
- Jan 27 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
- Mar 13 J. L. Johnstone of England invents horse racing's starting gate
- Jun 23 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin
- Dec 20 England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket, Australia needed 177 to win, all out at 166 on 6th day
- Dec 22 United States Golf Association forms in New York
Did You Know?
Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
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Articles About 1894
Why 'SuperMac' was Banished From Number 10
War hero, Edwardian gentleman, academic, friend of the Kennedys, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was born on this day.February 10Coca-Cola Sold in Bottles
A glass bottle called a Hutchinson used by Joseph A. Biedenharn to bottle Coca-ColaMarch 12Writer Becomes a Prisoner of Love
In his youth novelist George Gissing sparkled with literary and academic promise. But his choice of female partners led to anguish, poverty and even prison.October 10
Famous Weddings in 1894
- May 28 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
- Jun 20 Basketball inventor James Naismith (32) weds Maude Evelyn Sherman (23) in Springfield, Massachusetts
- Jun 22 Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner
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