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What Happened in August 1893

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Historical Events

  • Aug 7 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
  • Aug 9 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York
  • Aug 10 Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act

Event of Interest

Aug 10 Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany

Mechanical Engineer Rudolf Diesel
  • Aug 14 France introduces motor vehicle registration, includes a driving test
  • Aug 15 US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
  • Aug 20 Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
  • Aug 24 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carolina about 1000 die

US Men's Tennis Open

Aug 28 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; first of his 4 US singles titles

Tennis Player Fred Hovey

Events in 1893

Famous Birthdays

  • Aug 1 Alexander, King of Greece (1917-20), born at Tatoi Palace in Parnitha, Kingdom of Greece (d. 1920)
  • Aug 6 Guthrie McClintic, Broadway producer and director (Winterset), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1961)
  • Aug 6 Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
  • Aug 10 Douglas Moore, American organist, pianist, songwriter ("Goodnight Harvard"), and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Giants in the Earth; The Ballad of Baby Doe), born in Cutchogue, Long Island, New York (d. 1969)
  • Aug 10 Voranc Prezikov [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki), born in Podgora, Austria-Hungary (d. 1950)
  • Aug 10 William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, British politician (Governor General of Australia 1959-61), born in Torinturk, Scotland (d. 1961)
  • Aug 12 Alfred Lunt, American Broadway actor (The Guardsman, Sally of the Sawdust), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1977)
  • Aug 12 Howard Smith, American actor (Kiss of Death, Call Northside 777), born in Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
  • Aug 14 Alfred Alessandrescu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest (d. 1959)
  • Aug 14 Carl Benton Reid, American actor (Pressure Point, In a Lonely Place), born in Lansing, Michigan (d. 1973)
  • Aug 15 Alexander Gauk, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1963)

Harlow Curtice (1893-1962)

Aug 15 President of General Motors (1953-58), born in Petrieville, Michigan

Harlow Curtice
  • Aug 15 Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer, born in Pukekohe, New Zealand (d. 1950)

Mae West (1893-1980)

Aug 17 American stage and screen actress, writer (She Done Him Wrong; I'm No Angel), and singer (Way Out West), born in Brooklyn, New York

Mae West
  • Aug 18 Burleigh Grimes, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1931 St. Louis Cardinals; NL wins leader 1921, 28; NL strikeout leader 1921 Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Emerald, Wisconsin (d. 1985)
  • Aug 18 Ernest MacMillan, Canadian organist, conductor and composer, born in Etobicoke, Ontario (d. 1973)
  • Aug 19 Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1974)
  • Aug 21 (Marie-Juliette) "Lili" Boulanger, French composer (first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize), born in Paris (d. 1918)
  • Aug 21 Theresa Weld Blanchard, American figure skater (US Singles C'ship 1914, 20-24; Pairs C'ship 1920-27; Olympic bronze 1920), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1978)

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Aug 22 American poet (Enough Rope), short story writer and satirist (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), born in Long Branch, New Jersey

Dorothy Parker
  • Aug 22 Ernest H. Volwiler, American scientist and co-inventor of Pentothal - world's most widely used anesthetic, born in Hamilton, Ohio (d. 1992) [1]
  • Aug 22 George Wood, England cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests, 6 dismissals; Cambridge University CC, Kent CCC), born in Blackheath, England (d. 1971)
  • Aug 23 Roy Agnew, Australian composer (Sonata Ballade), born in Sydney (d. 1944)
  • Aug 24 Elisha Scott, Irish soccer goalkeeper (31 caps Ireland [IFA]; Liverpool 430 games), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1959)
  • Aug 25 H. Trendley Dean, American dental surgeon who introduced fluoridation into water, born in Winstanley Park, Illinois (d. 1962)

Huey Long (1893-1935)

Aug 30 American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (1928-32) and Senator (1932-35), born in Winnfield, Louisiana

Huey Long
  • Aug 31 Lily Laskine, French harpist, born in Paris (d. 1988)
Born in 1893

Famous Deaths

  • Aug 6 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
  • Aug 7 Alfredo Catalani, Italian operatic composer, dies at 39
  • Aug 16 Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist, dies at 77
  • Aug 17 Aleksey Apukhtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [NS=8/29]
  • Aug 22 Ernst II, Duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93) and composer, dies at 75
  • Aug 29 Aleksey Apukhtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]


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