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Events on the year of 1894 in history

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01 Jan 1894 Denmark adopts Mid-European time
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01 Jan 1894 Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic
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01 Jan 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal, is officially opened to traffic.
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04 Jan 1894 France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
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07 Jan 1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
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07 Jan 1894 William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
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09 Jan 1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
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09 Jan 1894 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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13 Jan 1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
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21 Jan 1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 seconds
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23 Jan 1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes
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25 Jan 1894 James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
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27 Jan 1894 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
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27 Jan 1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
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30 Jan 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
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30 Jan 1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham
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02 Feb 1894 US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
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03 Feb 1894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched in Bath, Maine
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05 Feb 1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
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07 Feb 1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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08 Feb 1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
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12 Feb 1894 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, France, killing one and wounding 20.
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14 Feb 1894 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
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16 Feb 1894 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
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23 Feb 1894 Stanley Cup Montr
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24 Feb 1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
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03 Mar 1894 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis"
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03 Mar 1894 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns
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04 Mar 1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
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05 Mar 1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
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08 Mar 1894 New York passes 1st state dog license law
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12 Mar 1894 Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
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12 Mar 1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
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13 Mar 1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
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16 Mar 1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Tha
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17 Mar 1894 US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
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22 Mar 1894 Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
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22 Mar 1894 The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
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22 Mar 1894 Stanley Cup: Montr
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24 Mar 1894 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington
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25 Mar 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
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25 Mar 1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon OH for Washington DC
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05 Apr 1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
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12 Apr 1894 British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa
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14 Apr 1894 Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device
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14 Apr 1894 The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
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14 Apr 1894 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
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16 Apr 1894 Manchester City F.C. was formed from Ardwick A.F.C..
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19 Apr 1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther", premieres in NYC
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20 Apr 1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
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21 Apr 1894 Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
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21 Apr 1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man", premieres in London
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24 Apr 1894 Philadelphia Phillies' Lave Cross hits for the cycle vs Brooklyn Dodgers
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24 Apr 1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
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29 Apr 1894 Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Washington DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
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30 Apr 1894 Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
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01 May 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
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11 May 1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Company
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11 May 1894 Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
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12 May 1894 Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC
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14 May 1894 Fire in the Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
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15 May 1894 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
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16 May 1894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
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17 May 1894 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49
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21 May 1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
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23 May 1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
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26 May 1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
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28 May 1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
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30 May 1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 homeruns in 1 baseball game
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06 Jun 1894 Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
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15 Jun 1894 Phillies beat Cincinatti Reds, 21-8
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17 Jun 1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
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18 Jun 1894 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
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21 Jun 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
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22 Jun 1894 Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner
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23 Jun 1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
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24 Jun 1894 Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
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24 Jun 1894 Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years
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25 Jun 1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
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26 Jun 1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
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28 Jun 1894 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
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28 Jun 1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
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30 Jun 1894 London Tower Bridge opens
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30 Jun 1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
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02 Jul 1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
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04 Jul 1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 mph
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04 Jul 1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as President
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04 Jul 1894 The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
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06 Jul 1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
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16 Jul 1894 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
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16 Jul 1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
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20 Jul 1894 2000 Federal troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
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22 Jul 1894 The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
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25 Jul 1894 The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
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01 Aug 1894 The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
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02 Aug 1894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
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02 Aug 1894 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
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16 Aug 1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their old Indian faith
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17 Aug 1894 Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
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18 Aug 1894 Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
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27 Aug 1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
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30 Aug 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
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31 Aug 1894 Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
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01 Sep 1894 Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
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02 Sep 1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
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04 Sep 1894 In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
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04 Sep 1894 Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms
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14 Sep 1894 Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
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15 Sep 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
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15 Sep 1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
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17 Sep 1894 Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
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27 Sep 1894 Aqueduct racetrack opens in New York
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28 Sep 1894 Simon Marks and Tom Spencer open Penny Bazaar in Manchester
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01 Oct 1894 Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska
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15 Oct 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage
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15 Oct 1894 The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
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17 Oct 1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
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29 Oct 1894 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
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30 Oct 1894 Daniel Cooper patents time clock
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30 Oct 1894 Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
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01 Nov 1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
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01 Nov 1894 Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
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01 Nov 1894 Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
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05 Nov 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
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10 Nov 1894 Fred Lugard signs accord with King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
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14 Nov 1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)
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16 Nov 1894 French Captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
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16 Nov 1894 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
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17 Nov 1894 Daily Racing Form founded
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18 Nov 1894 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species, " by Richard Outcault
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18 Nov 1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
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19 Nov 1894 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 and 5 Ap)
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19 Nov 1894 Dutch troops occupy and plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
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20 Nov 1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
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25 Nov 1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
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26 Nov 1894 King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
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09 Dec 1894 Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
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14 Dec 1894 Day One 1st Test Cricket Australia vs England Australia 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)
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14 Dec 1894 Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren
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15 Dec 1894 Cricket day 2 1st T Australia vs England Australia 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
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17 Dec 1894 Cricket day 3 1T Australia vs England England 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inning
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18 Dec 1894 Cricket day 4 1T Australia vs England England following on 4-268, 7 in front
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19 Dec 1894 Cricket day 5 1T Australia vs England England 437 all out, Australia need 177 are 2-113
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20 Dec 1894 Day Six 1T Australia vs England Australia need 177 to win, all out 166
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20 Dec 1894 England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket
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22 Dec 1894 United States Golf Association forms (NYC)
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22 Dec 1894 The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
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22 Dec 1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
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22 Dec 1894 United States Golf Association is formed (New York NY)
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22 Dec 1894 Debussy's "Pr
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22 Dec 1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
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23 Dec 1894 Debussy's ballet "L'apr
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24 Dec 1894 Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
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24 Dec 1894 Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
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25 Dec 1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, CA in football
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