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See also:	History of the United States (1865–1918) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860-1899) List of years in the United States

Events from the year1894 in the United States.

• President:Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
• Vice President:Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois)
• Chief Justice:Melville Fuller (Illinois)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia)
• Congress:53rd

• January 7 –William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent formotion picture film.
• January 9 –New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the firstbattery-operatedtelephone switchboard, inLexington, Massachusetts.
• February 7 – 5-monthCripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 begins
• February 9 –Milton S. Hershey establishes theHershey Chocolate Company inLancaster, Pennsylvania.
• February 17 – OutlawJohn Wesley Hardin is released from prison.
• March 12 –Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
• March 25 –Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs fromMassillon, Ohio forWashington, D.C.
• April 21 – Abituminous coal miners' strike closes mines across the central US.
• May 1
  • Coxey's Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • TheMay Day Riots of 1894 break out inCleveland, Ohio.
• May 11 –Pullman Strike: Three thousandPullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (withoutunion approval) strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town ofPullman, Chicago.
• July – A fire at the site of the 1893World's Columbian Exposition inChicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.
• July 4 – The short-livedRepublic of Hawaii is proclaimed bySanford B. Dole.
• August 6 –William C. Oates iselected the 29thgovernor of Alabama defeatingReuben Kolb.
• September 1 –Great Hinckley Fire: Aforest fire inHinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
• September 4 – InNew York City, 12,000 tailorsstrike againstsweatshop working conditions.
• October 3 –Pomfret School is founded in Connecticut.
• November 1 – The first issue of Billboard magazine is published in Cincinnati, Ohio byWilliam Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known asBillboard Advertising.
• November 5 –West Palm Beach, Florida is incorporated as a city.
• November 6 – Republican win by a landslide in theHouse of Representatives elections, which sets the stage for the decisive1896 presidential election.
• December 1 –William C. Oates is sworn in as the 29thgovernor of Alabama replacingThomas G. Jones.^[1]
• December 6 –Kate Chopin's feminist short story "The Story of an Hour" is first published, in the magazineVogue.

• Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making theOsage the "richest group of people in the world".
• TheSociety of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
• TheNational Society of Pershing Rifles is founded at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Chatham Episcopal Institute (modern-dayChatham Hall) is founded as a girls' college-preparatory boarding school inChatham, Virginia.
• Frederick W. Tamblyn founds Tamblyn Studio & School of Penmanship which later becomes Ziller of Kansas City, the oldestcalligraphy studio in the U.S.
• National Civic League established.^[2]
• New York Giants defeatBaltimore Orioles 4 games to 0 to win the FirstTemple Cup in theNational League of Professional Baseball Clubs.

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Panic of 1893 (1893–1894)

• January 2 –Robert Nathan, poet and novelist (died1985)
• January 11 –Alexander Hall, film director, film editor and theater actor (died1968)
• January 20 –Walter Piston, composer (died1976)
• January 31
  • Percy Helton, screen actor (died1971)
  • Isham Jones, bandleader and composer (died1956)
• February 1
  • John Ford, film director (died1973)
  • Dick Merrill, aviation pioneer (died1982)
• February 3 –Norman Rockwell, painter and illustrator (died1978)
• February 14 –Jack Benny, actor and comedian (died1974)
• February 18 –Paul Williams, architect (died1980)
• February 22 –Enid Markey, actress (died1981)
• February 25 –Frank P. Briggs, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1945 to 1947 (died1992)
• February 28 –Ben Hecht, playwright and film writer (died1964)
• March 14 –Osa Johnson (née Leighty), adventurer and filmmaker, wife ofMartin Johnson (died1953)
• March 17 –Paul Green, playwright (died 1981)
• March 19 –Moms Mabley, African American comedian (died1975)
• March 31 –Francis T. Maloney, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945 (died1945)
• April 3 –Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (died 1953)
• April 15 –Bessie Smith, African American blues singer (died1937)
• April 19 –Elizabeth Dilling, right-wing political activist (died1966)
• May 2 –Norma Talmadge, silent film actress (died1957)
• May 5 –August Dvorak, educational psychologist (died 1975)
• May 11 –Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer (died1991)
• May 15 –Eddie Stumpf, baseball player (died1978)
• May 16 –Walter Yust, encyclopædia editor (died1960)
• May 27 –Dashiell Hammett, detective fiction writer (died1961)
• May 31 –Fred Allen, comedian (died 1956)
• June 5 –James Glenn Beall, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1953 to 1965 (died 1971)
• June 23 –Alfred Kinsey, biologist, professor of entomology and zoology and sexologist, founder of theInstitute for Sex Research atIndiana University (Bloomington) in 1947 (died1956)
• June 28 –Arthur Dewey Struble, admiral (died1983)
• July 9 –Phelps Putnam, poet (died1948)
• July 20 –Wiley Rutledge, jurist (died1949)
• July 26 –Aldous Huxley, philosopher and author of Brave New World (died1963)
• August 3 –Harry Heilmann, baseball player (died1951)
• August 12 –Dick Calkins, comic book writer (Buck Rogers) (died1962)
• August 16 –George Meany, labor leader (died 1980)
• August 29 –Henry Dworshak, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1946 to 1949 and from 1949 to 1962 (died1962)
• September 6 –Howard Pease, adventure novelist (died 1974)
• September 7 –George Waggner, film director, producer and actor (died1984)
• September 12 –Billy Gilbert, comedian and actor (died 1971)
• September 19 –Rachel Field, author and poet (died1942)^[3]
• September 24 –Harry B. Liversedge, general (died 1951)
• September 25 –J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (died 1980])
• September 26 –Vaughn De Leath, crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (died1943)
• October 2 –Thomas L. Sprague, admiral (died1972)
• October 4 –Patrick V. McNamara, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1955 to 1966 (died1966)
• October 7 –Del Lord, film director (died1970)
• October 9 –Ernest McFarland, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1941 to 1953 (died 1984)
• October 14 –E. E. Cummings, poet and painter (died1962)
• October 18 –H. L. Davis, fiction writer (died 1960)
• November 5
  • Jan Garber,jazz bandleader (died1977)
  • Beardsley Ruml, economist and tax plan author (died1960)
• November 8 –Claude Beck, cardiac surgeon (died1971)
• November 23 –Andrew Frank Schoeppel, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1962 (died1962)
• November 26 –Norbert Wiener, mathematician (died 1964)
• November 28 –Henry Hazlitt, journalist and economist (died1993)
• December 5 –Philip K. Wrigley, business and sports executive (died1977)
• December 8
  • E. C. Segar, cartoonist, creator ofPopeye (died1938)
  • James Thurber, cartoonist and humorous writer (died1961)
• December 15 –Felix Stump, admiral (died 1972)
• December 17 –Arthur Fiedler, orchestral conductor (died1979)
• December 26 –Jean Toomer (Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer), African American poet and novelist (died1967)
• December 29 –J. Lister Hill, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1938 to 1969 (died 1984)

• January 15 –Henry Mower Rice, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1858 to 1863 (born1816)
• February 4 –Morton S. Wilkinson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1859 to 1865 (born1819)
• February 28 –James W. McDill, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (born1834)
• March 2
  • Jubal Early, Confederate general (born1816)
  • William H. Osborn, railroad tycoon (born1820)
• March 3 –Ned Williamson, baseball player (born1857)
• March 26 –Alfred H. Colquitt, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1883 to 1894 (born1824)
• March 28 –George Ticknor Curtis, author, lawyer and historian (born1812)
• April 7 –Benjamin Franklin King Jr., poet and humorist (born1857)
• April 14 –Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator (born1830)
• April 15 –James Harvey, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1874 to 1877 (born1833)
• April 30 –Francis B. Stockbridge, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1887 to 1894 (born1826)
• June 17 –William Hart, landscape painter (born1823 in Scotland)
• June 20 –Bishop W. Perkins, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1892 to 1893 (born1841)
• June 24 –George Peter Alexander Healy, American portrait painter (born1813)
• July 19 –William B. Avery,Union Army soldier andMedal of Honor recipient (born1840)
• August 15 –Arthur Rotch, architect (born1850)
• October 7 –Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician and writer (born1809)
• October 15 –Macon Bolling Allen, firstAfrican American to become a lawyer, argue before a jury, and hold a judicial position in the United States (born1816).
• October 18 –William F. Raynolds, military engineer (born1820)
• September 1
  • Boston Corbett, England-born Union Army soldier who shot and killedAbraham Lincoln'sassassin,John Wilkes Booth (born1832)
  • Samuel J. Kirkwood, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1882 (born1813)
• November 30 –Joseph E. Brown, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (born1821)
• December 19 –James L. Alcorn, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1871 to 1877 (born 1816)

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