1895
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The year of 1895 was one that did not give history to many important events. The most important one circles around Oscar Wilde and his jail sentence caused by losing a libel case against the Marquees of Queensberry.
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Important events
- The 5th of January saw Alfred Dreyfus being stripped of his rank and sentenced him to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island because of what is historically known as the Dreyfus Affair.
- February 14 – On Valentine’s Day 1895 the first ever screening of Oscar Wilde’s most known play, The Importance of Being Ernest was showed in London, at St. James’ Theatre. He was later to be arrested on April 6 because of losing a libel case against the Marquees of Queensberry. On May 25 he was sentenced to two years in jail, serving in Reading.
- April 14 – a powerful earthquake hits Slovenia
- May 24 – The Republic of Formosa declares its independence after splitting from Taiwan. Its existence was to be short.
- On September the 3rd, the first ever football game was played in Pennsylvania. It took place in the city of Latrobe with the teams of Latrobe YMCA and Jeanette Athletic Club squaring off. Latrobe won by 12 to 0
- November 27 – Alfred Nobel signed his will, making it clear that his estate would be used for the Nobel Prize after his death, which occurred in 1896, on the 10th of December.
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Dates of birth
- 4 people that were to receive the Nobel Prize in Psychology or Medicine were born in 1895: Danish Biochemist Carl Peter Henrik Dam (February 21), French Physician André Frédéric Cournand (September 24), German bacteriologist Gerhard Domagk and American physician Dickinson W. Richards (both on October 30). Domagk declined the prize.
- January 1 – FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (died in 1972)
- February 6 – Famous baseball player Babe Ruth (died in 1948)
- April 3 – Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (died in 1968). German composer Carl Orff was also born in 1895, on the 10th of July.
- September 7 – Important British general Brian Horrocks (died in 1985).
- October 2 – American actor Bud Abbott (died in 1974).
- December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (died in 1952)