1895 in the United States
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Events from the year 1895 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
- Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois)
- Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives:
- Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia) (until March 4)
- Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine) (starting December 2)
State governments
Events
- January 6-9 â Robert William Wilcox leads a rebellion in Hawai'i
- February 9 â Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
- March 1 â William Lyne Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General.
- May 27 â In re Debs: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.
- June 28 â The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- July 4 â Katharine Lee Bates' lyrics for "America the Beautiful" are first published.
- July 6 â Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course.[1]
- August 19 â American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
- September 3 â The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12â0).
- September 18 â Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.[2]
- November 5 â George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- November 20 â USS Indiana, the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is commissioned.
- November 25 â Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district.
- November 28 â Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant U.S. interest in the automobile.[3]
- December 24 â George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina.
Undated
- W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
- The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.
- Temple Cup: Cleveland Spiders defeat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1
Ongoing
- Gilded Age (1869âc. 1896)
- Gay Nineties (1890â1899)
- Progressive Era (1890sâ1920s)
Births
- January 1
- Bert Acosta, aviator (died 1954)
- J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 1972)
- January 4 â Leroy Grumman, aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (died 1982)
- January 11 â Laurens Hammond, inventor (died 1973)
- January 23 â Harry Darby, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1950 (died 1987)
- February 2 â George Halas, football player (died 1983)
- February 6 â Babe Ruth, baseball player (died 1948)
- February 25 â Lew Andreas, basketball coach (died 1984)
- March 4
- Milt Gross, comic book illustrator and animator (died 1953)
- Shemp Howard, actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (died 1955)
- March 12 â William C. Lee, general (died 1948)
- March 15 â Virgil Chapman, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1949 to 1951 (died 1951)
- March 27 â Ruth Snyder, murderer (electrocuted 1928)
- March 28
- Donald Barnhouse, theologian, pastor, author, and radio pioneer (died 1960)
- Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1985)
- April 20 â Emile Christian, musician (died 1973)
- May 2 â Lorenz Hart, lyricist (died 1943)
- May 11 â William Grant Still, "the Dean" of African American composers (died 1978)
- May 15 â Prescott Bush, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963 (died 1972)
- May 25 â Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer and photojournalist (died 1965 in the United States)
- May 28 â Samuel D. Jackson, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1944 (died 1951)
- June 10
- William C. Feazel, U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1948 (died 1965)
- Hattie McDaniel, African American film actress (died 1952)
- June 21 â John Wesley Snyder, businessman and Secretary of the Treasury (died 1985)
- June 24 â Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxer (died 1983)
- July 1 â Lucy Somerville Howorth, lawyer, feminist and politician (died 1997)
- July 3 â Jean Paige, actress (died 1990)
- July 4 â Irving Caesar, lyricist and theater composer (died 1996)
- July 9 â Joe Gleason, baseball pitcher (died 1990)
- July 10 â Andrew Earl Weatherly, philatelist (died 1981)
- July 12 â Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect (died 1983)
- July 13 â Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)
- July 19 â Snake Henry, baseball player (died 1987)
- July 20 â Chapman Revercomb, politician and lawyer (died 1979)
- July 26
- Gracie Allen, comic actress (died 1964)
- Kenneth Harlan, actor (died 1967)
- July 30 â Joseph DuMoe, football coach (died 1959)
- August 10 â Harry Richman, entertainer (died 1972)
- August 12 â Lynde D. McCormick, admiral (died 1956)
- September 20 â Lloyd W. Bertaud, aviator (died 1927)
- September 22 â Elmer Austin Benson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1935 to 1936 and 24th Governor of Minnesota from 1937 to 1939 (died 1985)
- September 29 â Joseph Banks Rhine, parapsychologist (died 1980)
- October 4 â Buster Keaton, born Joseph Frank Keaton, silent film comedian (died 1966)
- October 6 â Caroline Gordon, writer and critic (died 1981)
- October 13 â Mike Gazella, baseball player (died 1978)
- October 14 â Silas Simmons, Pre-Negro league baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (died 2006)
- October 19 â Lewis Mumford, historian & philosopher of science (died 1990)
- October 22 â Johnny Morrison, baseball player (died 1966)
- October 23 â Clinton Presba Anderson, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1949 to 1973 (died 1975)
- October 30 â Dickinson W. Richards, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1973)
- November 10 â John Knudsen Northrop, airplane manufacturer (died 1981)
- November 14 â Walter Freeman, neurologist (died 1972)
- November 29 â Busby Berkeley, film director and choreographer (died 1976)
- December 2 â W. Conway Pierce, chemist (died 1974)
- December 20 â Susanne Langer, philosopher (died 1985)
- December 24 â Marguerite Williams, African American geologist (died 1991)
- December 28 â Carol Ryrie Brink, author (died 1981)
Deaths
- January 9 â Aaron Lufkin Dennison, watchmaker (born 1812)
- February 20 â Frederick Douglass, African American rights activist and former slave (born 1817)
- March 22 â Henry Coppée, historian and biographer (born 1821)
- April 22 â James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895. (born 1828)
- May 28 â Walter Q. Gresham, politician (born 1832)
- June 23
- Thomas Shaw, buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1846)
- James Renwick Jr., architect (born 1818)
- June 29 â Green Clay Smith, politician (born 1826)
- July 28 â Edward Beecher, theologian (born 1803)
- August 1 â Hugh O'Brien, 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (born 1827)
- August 6 â George Frederick Root, composer (born 1820)
- August 22 â Luzon B. Morris, politician (born 1827)
- October 2 â Robert Crozier, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (born 1827)
- October 6 â L. L. Langstroth, beekeeper (born 1810)
- October 8 â William Mahone, civil engineer and Confederate Army major general (born 1826)
- October 14 â Clara Doty Bates, poet and children's literature author (born 1838)
- November 4 â Eugene Field, children's author (born 1850)
- Full date unknown â John Miley, Methodist theologian (born 1813)
