WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1895
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The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison. (25. May 1895)
Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. (29. June 1895)
In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day. (7. May 1895)
Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent." (28. June 1895)
The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened. (20. June 1895)
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president. (25. May 1895)
El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America. (28. June 1895)
American Frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. (19. August 1895)
Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists. (11. July 1895)
The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. (27. June 1895)
Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted. (24. May 1895)
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon. (31. August 1895)
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