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Events from the year1893 in the United States.

• President:

Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana) (until March 4)

Grover Cleveland (D-New York) (starting March 4)

• Vice President:

Levi P. Morton (R-New York) (until March 4)

Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois) (starting March 4)

• Chief Justice:Melville Fuller (Illinois)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia)
• Congress:52nd (until March 4),53rd (starting March 4)

• January 2 –Webb C. Ball introducesrailroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
• January 17 – TheU.S. Marines intervene inHawaii, resulting in overthrow of the government of QueenLiliuokalani of Hawaii.
• January 21 – TheCherry Sisters first perform inMarion, Iowa.
• February 1 –Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the firstmotion picture studio inWest Orange, New Jersey.
• February 24 –American University is established by an Act of Congress inWashington, D.C.
• February 28 –USSIndiana, the lead ship ofher class and the firstbattleship in theUnited States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is launched atPhiladelphia; she is commissioned in 1895.
• March 4 –Grover Cleveland is sworn in as the 24thpresident of the United States, andAdlai E. Stevenson is sworn in as the 23rdvice president of the United States.

• April 1 – The rank ofChief Petty Officer is established in the U.S. Navy.
• April 8 – The first recordedcollege basketball game occurs inBeaver Falls, Pennsylvania between theGeneva College Covenanters and theNew BrightonYMCA.
• May 1 – The1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public inChicago,Illinois. The first U.S. commemorativepostage stamps andCoins are issued for the Exposition.Pabst Blue Ribbon wins an award for the best beer.^[1]
• May 5 –Panic of 1893: A crash on theNew York Stock Exchange starts adepression.
• May 9 – Edison's 1½ inch system ofKinetoscope is first demonstrated in public at the Brooklyn Institute.
• May 10 –Nix v. Hedden: theUnited States Supreme Court legally declares thetomato to be avegetable.
• June 9 – The front part ofFord's Theatre inWashington, D.C. collapses, killing 22 War Department clerks and injuring 68 others.
• June 20 –Lizzie Borden is found not guilty for the murder of her father and step-mother inNew Bedford, Massachusetts.

• July 1 – U.S. PresidentGrover Cleveland has a secret operation to removecancer in his mouth.
• July 6 – The small town ofPomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado; 71 people are killed and 200 injured.
• July 12 –Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before theAmerican Historical Association inChicago.^[2]
• July 22 –Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful", after admiring the view from the top ofPikes Peak, nearColorado Springs.
• August 27 – TheSea Islands Hurricane hitsSavannah,Charleston, and theSea Islands, killing 1,000–2,000.
• September 9 – First LadyFrances Cleveland gives birth in theWhite House to daughterEsther Cleveland.
• September 11–27 – TheWorld Parliament of Religions opens in Chicago.
• September 11 – Standing ovation to Hindu monk Swami Vivekanda for his address in response to the welcome at theWorld Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• September 19 –Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at theWorld Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• September 21 – Brothers Charles and FrankDuryea drive the first gasoline-poweredmotorcar in America on public roads inSpringfield,Massachusetts.
• September 23 – TheBaháʼí Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States at theWorld Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• December 8 – TheNational Education Association releases the final report from theCommittee of Ten at a conference at Columbia University, recommending standardization of the high school curriculum.^[3]

• SistersPatty andMildred J. Hill publishSong Stories for the Kindergarten including "Good Morning to All", which later becomes known as "Happy Birthday to You".
• The AmericanNational Sculpture Society (NSS) is founded.
• T.M.I.: The Episcopal School of Texas is founded.
• Chicago Metallic Corporation is founded.^[4]
• Colored High becomes the firstAfrican American high school inHouston, Texas; its name is later changed toBooker T. Washington High School.
• TheAmerican Council on Alcohol Problems is established, along with theAnti-Saloon League and theCommittee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem.
• American Temperance University is opened inHarriman, Tennessee.

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Panic of 1893 (1893–1894)
• Garza Revolution in Texas and Mexico (1891–1893)

• January 11 –Anthony M. Rud, writer (died1942)
• January 12 –Edward Selzer, film producer (died1970)
• January 18 –Thomas E. Martin, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1955 to 1961 (died1971)
• January 23 –Frank Carlson, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1950 to 1969 (died1987)
• February 10
  • Jimmy Durante, actor, singer and comedian (died1980)
  • Bill Tilden, tennis player (died1953)
• March 14 –Arthur C. Davis, admiral (died1965)
• March 27 –Lloyd Spencer, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1941 to 1943 (died1981)
• April 20
  • Harold Lloyd, actor (died1971)
  • Edna Parker, supercentenarian (died2008)
• April 23 –Allen Dulles, Central Intelligence Agency director (died1969)
• April 29 –Harold Urey, chemist, recipient ofNobel Prize in 1934 (died1981)
• May 23 –Ulysses S. Grant IV, geologist and paleontologist (died1977)
• June 14 –Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and singer (died1980)
• June 24
  • Roy O. Disney, partner in Walt Disney Productions (died1971)
  • Suzanne La Follette,libertarian feminist (died1983)
• June 26 –Big Bill Broonzy, blues singer and composer (died1958)
• July 9 –Dorothy Thompson, journalist and radio commentator (died1961)
• July 12 –John Gould Moyer, naval officer, 31stGovernor of American Samoa (died1976)
• July 18
  • Orrice Abram Murdock Jr., politician (died1979)
  • Richard Dix, actor (died1949)
  • Walter Hiers, actor (died1933)
• August 14 –Carl Benton Reid, actor (died1973)
• August 17 –Mae West, film actress (died1980)
• August 20 –Robert Humphreys, U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1956 (died1977)
• August 22 –Dorothy Parker, writer (died1967)
• August 30 –Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1932 to 1935 (died1935)
• August 31 –Raymond E. Baldwin, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1946 to 1949 (died1986)
• September 6 –John W. Bricker, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1947 to 1959 (died1986)
• September 12 –Frederick William Franz, President of Jehovah's Witnesses (died1992)
• September 13 –Larry Shields, musician (died 1953)
• September 24 –Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues and gospel singer-songwriter (died1929)
• September 30 –Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman from Maryland (died1964)
• October 2 –Lester Dragstedt, surgeon (died1975)
• October 14
  • Lillian Gish, actress, "First Lady of American Cinema" (died1993)
  • Lois Lenski, author and illustrator (died1974)^[5]
• October 23 –Gummo Marx, vaudevillian and theatrical agent (died1977)
• November 10 –John P. Marquand, novelist (died1960)
• November 14 –Addie Viola Smith, attorney and trade envoy (died1975 in Australia)
• November 24 –Fern Andra, actress (died1974)
• December 1 –Henry J. Cadbury, Quaker biblical scholar (died1974)
• December 3 –Walter Stuart Diehl, naval officer and aeronautical engineer (died1976)
• Unknown –Edward Joseph Renehan Sr., banker (died1953)

• January 11 –Benjamin Butler, major general of theUnion Army during theAmerican Civil War, and for his leader in theimpeachment of Andrew Johnson (born1818)
• January 17 –Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the U.S. from 1877 to 1881 (born1822)
• January 23 –Phillips Brooks, Episcopal clergyman (born1835)
• January 27 –James G. Blaine, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1876 to 1881 and Secretary of State in 1881 and from 1889 to 1892 (born1830)
• February 1 –Joseph P. Comegys, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1856 to 1857 (born1813)
• February 10 –Henry Churchill de Mille, American dramatist and playwright (born1853)
• February 19 –George E. Spencer, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1879 (born1836)
• February 20 –P. G. T. Beauregard, Southern military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of theConfederate States Army during theAmerican Civil War (born1818)
• March 2 –Richard M. Bishop, 34th Governor of Ohio from 1878 to 1880 (born1812)
• March 18 –David H. Armstrong, Canadian-born U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1877 to 1879 (born 1812)
• March 21 –Mary Foot Seymour, American businesswoman and journalist (born1846)
• March 22 –Eli Saulsbury, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1871 to 1889 (born1817)
• March 28 –Edmund Kirby Smith, careerUnited States Army officer who served with theConfederates during theAmerican Civil War (born1824)
• April 4 –David Meriwether, U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1852 (born1800)
• June 7 –Edwin Booth, actor (born1833)
• June 21 –Leland Stanford, U.S. Senator from California from 1885 to 1893 (born1824)
• July 2 –Georgiana Drew, comic actress (born1856)
• July 17 –Frederick A. Johnson, politician and banker. (born1833)
• July 19 –Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., Georgia politician, attorney, historian and folklorist (born1831)
• August 10 –Robert Cornelius, pioneer of photography (born1809)
• August 20 –Brother Azarias, educator (born1847)
• September 29 –Willis Benson Machen, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1872 to 1873 (born1810)
• October 18 –Lucy Stone, social reformer (born1818)
• November 11 –Charles H. Bell, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire in 1879 (born1823)
• November 22 –James Calder, 5th president of thePennsylvania State University (born1826)
• December 2 –Pauline Cushman, actress andUnion spy (born1833)
• December 7 –David Jewett Waller Sr., Presbyterian minister and businessman (born1815)
• December 16 –James Black, temperance movement leader (born1823)

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