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1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1894th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 894th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1890s decade.
January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery -operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts. February 7 – 5-month Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 begins. February 9 – Milton S. Hershey establishes the Hershey ...
This is an incomplete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1894. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ).
Edward was born on 23 June 1894 at White Lodge, Richmond Park, on the outskirts of London during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. He was the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary). His father was the son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra).
- 20 January 1936 – 11 December 1936
- Mary of Teck
The 1896 Summer Olympics, [2] officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad ( Greek: Αγώνες της 1ης Ολυμπιάδας, romanized : Agónes tis 1is Olympiádas) and commonly known as Athens 1896 ( Greek: Αθήνα 1896 ), was the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised by the International Olympic ...
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- Athens, Greece
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- Panathenaic Stadium
Fred Allen. John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian. His absurdist topically-pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio. [1] [2]
Events. Outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War; June 30 – Tower Bridge in London opened.; Births. February 10 - Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister; April 17 – Nikita Krushchev, Soviet leader
