1895 in the United States

::Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine) (starting December 2) - Congress: [53rd](53rd-united-states-congress) (until March 4), [54th](54th-united-states-congress) (starting March 4) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events - January 6-9 – Robert William Wilcox leads a [rebellion](1895-wilcox-rebellion) in Hawai'i - February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. - March 1 – William Lyne Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General. - May 27 – *In re Debs*: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike. - June 28 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent". - July 4 – Katharine Lee Bates' lyrics for "America the Beautiful" are first published. - July 6 – Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course. - August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. - September 3 – The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0). - September 18 – Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech. - November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. - November 20 – USS *Indiana*, the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is commissioned. - November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district. - November 28 – *Chicago Times-Herald* race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the *Chicago Times-Herald*. Press coverage first arouses significant U.S. interest in the automobile. - December 24 – George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina. ### Undated - W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. - The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government. - Temple Cup: Cleveland Spiders defeat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1 ### Ongoing - Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896) - Gay Nineties (1890–1899) - Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) ## Births - January 1 - Bert Acosta, aviator (died [1954](1954-in-the-united-states)) - J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died [1972](1972-in-the-united-states)) - January 4 – Leroy Grumman, aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (died [1982](1982-in-the-united-states)) - January 11 – Laurens Hammond, inventor (died [1973](1973-in-the-united-states)) - January 23 – Harry Darby, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1950 (died [1987](1987-in-the-united-states)) - February 2 – George Halas, football player (died [1983](1983-in-the-united-states)) - February 6 – Babe Ruth, baseball player (died [1948](1948-in-the-united-states)) - February 25 – Lew Andreas, basketball coach (died [1984](1984-in-the-united-states)) - March 4 - Milt Gross, comic book illustrator and animator (died [1953](1953-in-the-united-states)) - Shemp Howard, actor and comedian (*The Three Stooges*) (died [1955](1955-in-the-united-states)) - March 12 – William C. Lee, general (died [1948](1948-in-the-united-states)) - March 15 – Virgil Chapman, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1949 to 1951 (died [1951](1951-in-the-united-states)) - March 27 – Ruth Snyder, murderer (electrocuted [1928](1928-in-the-united-states)) - March 28 - Donald Barnhouse, theologian, pastor, author, and radio pioneer (died [1960](1960-in-the-united-states)) - Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died [1985](1985-in-the-united-states)) - April 20 – Emile Christian, musician (died [1973](1973-in-the-united-states)) - May 2 – Lorenz Hart, lyricist (died [1943](1943-in-the-united-states)) - May 11 – William Grant Still, "the Dean" of African American composers (died [1978](1978-in-the-united-states)) - May 15 – Prescott Bush, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963 (died [1972](1972-in-the-united-states)) - May 25 – Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer and photojournalist (died [1965 in the United States](1965-in-the-united-states)) - May 28 – Samuel D. Jackson, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1944 (died 1951) - June 10 - William C. Feazel, U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1948 (died 1965) - Hattie McDaniel, African American film actress (died [1952](1952-in-the-united-states)) - June 21 – John Wesley Snyder, businessman and Secretary of the Treasury (died [1985](1985-in-the-united-states)) - June 24 – Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxer (died [1983](1983-in-the-united-states)) - July 1 – Lucy Somerville Howorth, lawyer, feminist and politician (died [1997](1997-in-the-united-states)) - July 3 – Jean Paige, actress (died [1990](1990-in-the-united-states)) - July 4 – Irving Caesar, lyricist and theater composer (died [1996](1996-in-the-united-states)) - July 9 – Joe Gleason, baseball pitcher (died [1990](1990-in-the-united-states)) - July 10 – Andrew Earl Weatherly, philatelist (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) - July 12 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect (died [1983](1983-in-the-united-states)) - July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died [1989](1989-in-the-united-states)) - July 19 – Snake Henry, baseball player (died [1987](1987-in-the-united-states)) - July 20 – Chapman Revercomb, politician and lawyer (died [1979](1979-in-the-united-states)) - July 26 - Gracie Allen, comic actress (died [1964](1964-in-the-united-states)) - Kenneth Harlan, actor (died [1967](1967-in-the-united-states)) - July 30 – Joseph DuMoe, football coach (died [1959](1959-in-the-united-states)) - August 10 – Harry Richman, entertainer (died [1972](1972-in-the-united-states)) - August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick, admiral (died [1956](1956-in-the-united-states)) - September 20 – Lloyd W. Bertaud, aviator (died [1927](1927-in-the-united-states)) - September 22 – Elmer Austin Benson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1935 to 1936 and 24th Governor of Minnesota from 1937 to 1939 (died [1985](1985-in-the-united-states)) - September 29 – Joseph Banks Rhine, parapsychologist (died [1980](1980-in-the-united-states)) - October 4 – Buster Keaton, born Joseph Frank Keaton, silent film comedian (died [1966](1966-in-the-united-states)) - October 6 – Caroline Gordon, writer and critic (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) - October 13 – Mike Gazella, baseball player (died [1978](1978-in-the-united-states)) - October 14 – Silas Simmons, Pre-Negro league baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (died [2006](2006-in-the-united-states)) - October 19 – Lewis Mumford, historian & philosopher of science (died [1990](1990-in-the-united-states)) - October 22 – Johnny Morrison, baseball player (died [1966](1966-in-the-united-states)) - October 23 – Clinton Presba Anderson, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1949 to 1973 (died [1975](1975-in-the-united-states)) - October 30 – Dickinson W. Richards, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died [1973](1973-in-the-united-states)) - November 10 – John Knudsen Northrop, airplane manufacturer (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) - November 14 – Walter Freeman, neurologist (died [1972](1972-in-the-united-states)) - November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director and choreographer (died [1976](1976-in-the-united-states)) - December 2 – W. Conway Pierce, chemist (died [1974](1974-in-the-united-states)) - December 20 – Susanne Langer, philosopher (died [1985](1985-in-the-united-states)) - December 24 – Marguerite Williams, African American geologist (died [1991](1991-in-the-united-states)) - December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink, author (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - January 9 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, watchmaker (born [1812](1812-in-the-united-states)) - February 20 – Frederick Douglass, African American rights activist and former slave (born [1817](1817-in-the-united-states)) - March 22 – Henry Coppée, historian and biographer (born [1821](1821-in-the-united-states)) - April 22 – James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895. (born [1828](1828-in-the-united-states)) - May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham, politician (born [1832](1832-in-the-united-states)) - June 23 - Thomas Shaw, buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born [1846](1846-in-the-united-states)) - James Renwick Jr., architect (born [1818](1818-in-the-united-states)) - June 29 – Green Clay Smith, politician (born [1826](1826-in-the-united-states)) - July 28 – Edward Beecher, theologian (born [1803](1803-in-the-united-states)) - August 1 – Hugh O'Brien, 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (born [1827](1827-in-the-united-states)) - August 6 – George Frederick Root, composer (born [1820](1820-in-the-united-states)) - August 22 – Luzon B. Morris, politician (born [1827](1827-in-the-united-states)) - October 2 – Robert Crozier, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (born [1827](1827-in-the-united-states)) - October 6 – L. L. Langstroth, beekeeper (born [1810](1810-in-the-united-states)) - October 8 – William Mahone, civil engineer and Confederate Army major general (born [1826](1826-in-the-united-states)) - October 14 – Clara Doty Bates, poet and children's literature author (born [1838](1838-in-the-united-states)) - November 4 – Eugene Field, children's author (born [1850](1850-in-the-united-states)) - Full date unknown – John Miley, Methodist theologian (born [1813](1813-in-the-united-states)) ## References ## References 1. ["Van Cortlandt Park Highlights – Van Cortlandt Golf Course"](https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/VanCortlandtPark/highlights/11046). *NYC Parks*. 2. (2004). ["Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches"](https://archive.org/details/ripplesofhopegre00gott). 3. Berger, Michael L.. 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