On This Day

February 1895 in History

Events in History

  • Feb 3 Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
  • Feb 4 1st rolling lift bridge opens in Chicago
  • Feb 11 -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
  • Feb 11 Georgetown became part of Washington, D.C.
  • Feb 13 Moving picture projector patented

Importance of Being Earnest

Feb 14 Oscar Wilde's play "Importance of Being Earnest" premieres at St James's Theatre in London

Oscar Wilde
Writer and Poet Oscar Wilde
  • Feb 15 23 cm (9 inches) of snow falls on New Orleans
  • Feb 20 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo

Frederick Douglass Honoured

Feb 21 North Caroline Legislature adjourns for the day to mark the passing of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
  • Feb 23 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named American minister to Liberia
  • Feb 24 Cuban war for independence begins

Event of Interest

Feb 25 Groenkloof Nature Reserve in Pretoria established by President Paul Kruger as the first game sanctuary in Africa

Paul Kruger
3rd President of the South African Republic Paul Kruger
  • Feb 26 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio, patents a glass-blowing machine

Birthdays in History

  • Feb 3 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (founded APRA-Peru, drafted constitution), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 1979) [or Feb 22]
  • Feb 4 Annie Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters), born in Hatert, Netherlands (d. 1978)
  • Feb 4 [Johann Baptist] Hanns Albin Rauter, German SS and Police leader in the occupied Netherlands, born in Klagenfurt, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1949)
  • Feb 9 Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)

Max HorkheimerMax Horkheimer (1895-1973)

Feb 14 German philosopher & sociologist (Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason), born in Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Germany

Max Horkheimer
  • Feb 18 Semjon Timoshenko, Russian military officer (Marshal of the Soviet Union, held commands during Soviet-Finnish War and on WWII Eastern Front), born in Orman, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1970)
  • Feb 18 Semyon Timoshenko, Russian marshal and army officer (most senior Russian officer on the front line in WWII), born in Orman, Russia (d. 1976) (OS 6 Feb)
  • Feb 21 Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, (1943 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for discovery of vitamin K), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1976)
  • Feb 22 Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician and author (founder of Peruvian Aprista Party), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 1979)

Deaths in History

  • Feb 2 Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)

Theodore Dwight WeldTheodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895)

Feb 3 American abolitionist and writer (American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses), dies at 91

Theodore Dwight Weld
  • Feb 18 Archduke Albrecht of Austria, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77

Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass (c. 1817/18-1895)

Feb 20 African-American abolitionist, lecturer and editor who was also an escaped slave, dies of a heart attack at 77

Frederick Douglass


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