November 1894 in History

Events in History

Nov 1 Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after the death of his father, Tsar Alexander III

Nov 1 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Émile Roux of Paris

Nov 5 Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
Nov 10 Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
Nov 12 Lawrence Hargrave, Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite, linked four huge box kites together and flew - but remained attached to the ground by piano wire
Nov 16 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
Nov 16 French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa
Nov 17 Daily Racing Form founded

Nov 17 Serial killer H. H. Holmes is arrested in Boston after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons

Nov 18 Richard Outcault's early comic strip "Origin of a New Species" published in World
Nov 19 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
Nov 19 Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
Nov 20 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
Nov 25 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
Nov 26 King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France

Nov 2 Alexander Lippisch, German scientist and pioneer of aerodynamics, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1976)

Nov 3 Canadian fighter ace (Victoria Cross recipient), born in Dauphin, Manitoba

Nov 5 Henri de Page, Belgian private law scholar, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1969)
Nov 9 Dietrich von Choltitz, German general known as the "Saviour of Paris" for surrendering the city to Free French forces and disobeying Hitler's orders to destroy it, born in Gräflich Wiese, Silesia, German Empire (d. 1966)
Nov 13 Arthur Nebe, German SS officer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1945)
Nov 14 Harold Collett Dent, British journalist and educator (d. 1995)
Nov 16 Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1972)
Nov 17 Eelco van Kleffens, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1939-46) and diplomat (d. 1983)
Nov 17 Sophocles Venizelos, Greek politician, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), born in Chania, Crete (d. 1964)
Nov 19 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician (13th President of Portugal 1958-74), born in Lisbon (d. 1987)
Nov 26 James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto, born in Hunter River, Prince Edward Island, Canada (d. 1974)

Nov 26 American mathematician who founded cybernetics, born in Columbia, Missouri

Nov 27 Amphilochius of Pochayiv [Yakov Varnavovich Golovatyuk], Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint, born in Mala Ilovytsya, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine (d. 1971)
Nov 27 Forrest C. Shaklee, American chiropractor and founder (Shaklee Products), born in Carlisle, Iowa (d. 1985)
Nov 27 Kōnosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (founded Panasonic), born in Wakayama, Empire of Japan (d. 1989)

Nov 28 American drama critic (The New York Times), born in Melrose, Massachusetts

Nov 26 Russian emperor Nicholas II (26) weds Alexandra Feodorovna (22) at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia

Nov 1 Russian Tsar (1881-94), dies if terminal kidney disease at 49

Nov 25 Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist, dies at 82
Nov 27 Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
Nov 30 Joseph E. Brown, American attorney and politician (42nd Governor of Georgia), dies at 73