What Happened In February 1893 In History

Historical Events for February, 1893

• 28th » The USS Indiana BB-1 6, the lead ship of Indiana-class battleship her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1893

• 2nd » Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
• 2nd » Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)
• 2nd » Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian military leader (d. 1924)
• 3rd » Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician (d. 1978)
• 6th » Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat, 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan) known as Minister of Foreign Affairs for Pakistan (d. 1985)
• 7th » Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist (d. 1988)
• 8th » Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
• 9th » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)
• 10th » Jimmy Durante, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
• 10th » Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
• 12th » Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981)
• 12th » S. Foster Damon e.g Samuel Foster Damon, American academic, critic, poet and William Blake scholar (d. 1971)
• 12th » Fred Albert Shannon, American historian and author (d. 1963)
• 13th » Zénon Bernard, Luxembourger politician (d. 1942)
• 15th » James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and author (d. 1975)
• 15th » Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (d. 1947)
• 17th » Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
• 19th » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (d. 1964)
• 20th » Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
• 20th » Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
• 21st » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (d. 1979)
• 21st » Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
• 26th » Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (d. 1934)
• 26th » I. A. Richards, English educator and critic (d. 1979)
• 28th » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (d. 1979)

Famous Deaths for February 1893

• 1st » George Henry Sanderson, American politician, 22nd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
• 18th » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)

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