WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JUNE 1894
Find out what all happened April to June 1894

Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893. (30. April 1894)

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C. (1. May 1894)

The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. (21. May 1894)

Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois. (11. May 1894)

The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. (23. June 1894)

Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. (6. June 1894)

The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films. (14. April 1894)

Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years. (21. April 1894)

Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. (24. June 1894)

Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. (28. June 1894)