What Happened In July 1894 - Historical Events 1894 July

Historical Events for July, 1894

4th » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
25th » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

5th » Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (d. 1973)
8th » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
10th » Jimmy McHugh, American composer (d. 1969)
13th » Isaak Babel, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1940)
14th » Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (d. 1979)
15th » Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (d. 1989)
17th » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966)
19th » Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)
19th » Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
23rd » Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and singer (d. 1975)
25th » Walter Brennan, American actor and singer (d. 1974)
25th » Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918)
26th » Aldous Huxley, English author, poet, and academic (d. 1963)
27th » Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (d. 1966)
31st » Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d. 1972)