What Happened In May 1893 In History

Historical Events for May, 1893

• 10th » The Supreme Court of the United States rules in 'Nix v. Hedden' that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff of 1883 named Tariff Act of 1883.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1893

• 3rd » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (d. 1975)
• 7th » Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985)
• 8th » Francis Ouimet, American golfer (d. 1967)
• 8th » Edd Roush, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 8th » Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (d. 1963)
• 9th » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1947)
• 14th » Louis Verneuil, French actor and playwright (d. 1952)
• 19th » H. Bonciu, Romanian author, poet, and journalist (d. 1950)
• 23rd » Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
• 26th » Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
• 26th » Norma Talmadge, American actress and producer (d. 1957)
• 27th » Hermann Dörnemann, German super-centenarian (d. 2005)
• 29th » Max Brand, American author (d. 1944)

Famous Deaths for May 1893

• 14th » Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)
• 23rd » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)

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