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Events on the year of 1895 in history

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05 Jan 1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
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05 Jan 1895 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
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05 Jan 1895 Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
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12 Jan 1895 The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
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13 Jan 1895 First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
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13 Jan 1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband" premieres in London
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15 Jan 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
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15 Jan 1895 Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
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15 Jan 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg
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17 Jan 1895 French President Casimir-Perier resigns
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18 Jan 1895 Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
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22 Jan 1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati OH
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29 Jan 1895 King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
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30 Jan 1895 C J Eady (Tasmania) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (vs Victoria)
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30 Jan 1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
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30 Jan 1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
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31 Jan 1895 Jos
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01 Feb 1895 Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
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03 Feb 1895 Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 seconds)
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04 Feb 1895 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
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09 Feb 1895 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
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09 Feb 1895 Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
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09 Feb 1895 William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
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11 Feb 1895 Georgetown became part of Washington DC
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13 Feb 1895 Moving picture projector patented
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14 Feb 1895 Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
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15 Feb 1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
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20 Feb 1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
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21 Feb 1895 North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
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23 Feb 1895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
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23 Feb 1895 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17:56)
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24 Feb 1895 Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
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24 Feb 1895 Cuban war of independence begins
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26 Feb 1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
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11 Mar 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
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13 Mar 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
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18 Mar 1895 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
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19 Mar 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
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19 Mar 1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
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22 Mar 1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
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25 Mar 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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26 Mar 1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
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30 Mar 1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
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03 Apr 1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
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05 Apr 1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
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06 Apr 1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
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08 Apr 1895 In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
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11 Apr 1895 Anaheim completes its new electric light system
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13 Apr 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
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14 Apr 1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
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15 Apr 1895 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
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17 Apr 1895 The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
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17 Apr 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
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24 Apr 1895 Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
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24 Apr 1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
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07 May 1895 In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
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08 May 1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
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17 May 1895 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs Somerset at Bristol
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20 May 1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
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24 May 1895 Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
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24 May 1895 Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
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25 May 1895 The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
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25 May 1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
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25 May 1895 20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50
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25 May 1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
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27 May 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
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30 May 1895 W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
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11 Jun 1895 Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
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11 Jun 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris is sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race".
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11 Jun 1895 1st auto race
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17 Jun 1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
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17 Jun 1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble
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20 Jun 1895 Canal of Smock official opens
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20 Jun 1895 The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
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20 Jun 1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
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20 Jun 1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe
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20 Jun 1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
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21 Jun 1895 British Roseberry government falls
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27 Jun 1895 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
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28 Jun 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union
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28 Jun 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
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28 Jun 1895 Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
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29 Jun 1895 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
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03 Jul 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
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04 Jul 1895 Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
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08 Jul 1895 Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
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11 Jul 1895 Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
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23 Jul 1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #405 Thia
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20 Aug 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
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26 Aug 1895 Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
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27 Aug 1895 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
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30 Aug 1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
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31 Aug 1895 German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
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31 Aug 1895 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
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03 Sep 1895 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
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03 Sep 1895 John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
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05 Sep 1895 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina
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07 Sep 1895 The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
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09 Sep 1895 American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
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11 Sep 1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
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12 Sep 1895 Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (Engld) in 10th America's Cup
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18 Sep 1895 Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta compromise" address.
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18 Sep 1895 Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
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18 Sep 1895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
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21 Sep 1895 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
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24 Sep 1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
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26 Sep 1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
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30 Sep 1895 Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
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30 Sep 1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
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01 Oct 1895 Romanians in Costantinople massacred
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02 Oct 1895 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
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04 Oct 1895 1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport Golf Club - Rhode Island
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04 Oct 1895 Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
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04 Oct 1895 The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
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05 Oct 1895 The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
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08 Oct 1895 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
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08 Oct 1895 Eulmi incident: Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by Japanese infiltrators inside Gyeongbok Palace.
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11 Oct 1895 Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
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21 Oct 1895 The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
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22 Oct 1895 In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
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02 Nov 1895 The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.
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05 Nov 1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
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05 Nov 1895 George Selden patents 1st gasoline-driven car
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05 Nov 1895 King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
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05 Nov 1895 US state Utah accepts female suffrage
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05 Nov 1895 George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
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08 Nov 1895 Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays
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11 Nov 1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony
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13 Nov 1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
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19 Nov 1895 Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
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21 Nov 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
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26 Nov 1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
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27 Nov 1895 At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
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27 Nov 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
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28 Nov 1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
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28 Nov 1895 America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH
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02 Dec 1895 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
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07 Dec 1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
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13 Dec 1895 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony
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17 Dec 1895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington DC
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17 Dec 1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Massachusetts)
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28 Dec 1895 The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
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28 Dec 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
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28 Dec 1895 World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris
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29 Dec 1895 Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
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