Events from the year 1895 in the United States.
Incumbents
:Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia) (until March 4)
:Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine) (starting December 2)
State governments
Events
- January 6-9 – Robert William Wilcox leads a rebellion in Hawai'i
- February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
- March 1 – William Lyne Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General.
- May 27 – In re Debs: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.
- June 28 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- July 4 – Katharine Lee Bates' lyrics for "America the Beautiful" are first published.
- July 6 – Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course.
- August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
- September 3 – The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12âÂÂ0).
- September 18 – Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.
- November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- November 20 – USS Indiana, the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of this time, is commissioned.
- November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district.
- November 28 – Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant U.S. interest in the automobile.
- December 24 – George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 1
- Bert Acosta, aviator (died 1954)
- J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 1972)
- January 4 – Leroy Grumman, aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (died 1982)
- January 11 – Laurens Hammond, inventor (died 1973)
- January 23 – Harry Darby, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1950 (died 1987)
- February 2 – George Halas, football player (died 1983)
- February 6 – Babe Ruth, baseball player (died 1948)
- February 25 – Lew Andreas, basketball coach (died 1984)
- March 4
- Milt Gross, comic book illustrator and animator (died 1953)
- Shemp Howard, actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (died 1955)
- March 12 – William C. Lee, general (died 1948)
- March 15 – Virgil Chapman, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1949 to 1951 (died 1951)
- March 27 – Ruth Snyder, murderer (electrocuted 1928)
- March 28
- Donald Barnhouse, theologian, pastor, author, and radio pioneer (died 1960)
- Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1985)
- April 20 – Emile Christian, musician (died 1973)
- May 2 – Lorenz Hart, lyricist (died 1943)
- May 11 – William Grant Still, "the Dean" of African American composers (died 1978)
- May 15 – Prescott Bush, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963 (died 1972)
- May 25 – Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer and photojournalist (died 1965 in the United States)
- May 28 – Samuel D. Jackson, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1944 (died 1951)
- June 10
- William C. Feazel, U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1948 (died 1965)
- Hattie McDaniel, African American film actress (died 1952)
- June 21 – John Wesley Snyder, businessman and Secretary of the Treasury (died 1985)
- June 24 – Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxer (died 1983)
- July 1 – Lucy Somerville Howorth, lawyer, feminist and politician (died 1997)
- July 3 – Jean Paige, actress (died 1990)
- July 4 – Irving Caesar, lyricist and theater composer (died 1996)
- July 9 – Joe Gleason, baseball pitcher (died 1990)
- July 10 – Andrew Earl Weatherly, philatelist (died 1981)
- July 12 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect (died 1983)
- July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)
- July 19 – Snake Henry, baseball player (died 1987)
- July 20 – Chapman Revercomb, politician and lawyer (died 1979)
- July 26
- Gracie Allen, comic actress (died 1964)
- Kenneth Harlan, actor (died 1967)
- July 30 – Joseph DuMoe, football coach (died 1959)
- August 10 – Harry Richman, entertainer (died 1972)
- August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick, admiral (died 1956)
- September 20 – Lloyd W. Bertaud, aviator (died 1927)
- September 22 – Elmer Austin Benson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1935 to 1936 and 24th Governor of Minnesota from 1937 to 1939 (died 1985)
- September 29 – Joseph Banks Rhine, parapsychologist (died 1980)
- October 4 – Buster Keaton, born Joseph Frank Keaton, silent film comedian (died 1966)
- October 6 – Caroline Gordon, writer and critic (died 1981)
- October 13 – Mike Gazella, baseball player (died 1978)
- October 14 – Silas Simmons, Pre-Negro league baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (died 2006)
- October 19 – Lewis Mumford, historian & philosopher of science (died 1990)
- October 22 – Johnny Morrison, baseball player (died 1966)
- October 23 – Clinton Presba Anderson, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1949 to 1973 (died 1975)
- October 30 – Dickinson W. Richards, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1973)
- November 10 – John Knudsen Northrop, airplane manufacturer (died 1981)
- November 14 – Walter Freeman, neurologist (died 1972)
- November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director and choreographer (died 1976)
- December 2 – W. Conway Pierce, chemist (died 1974)
- December 20 – Susanne Langer, philosopher (died 1985)
- December 24 – Marguerite Williams, African American geologist (died 1991)
- December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink, author (died 1981)
Deaths
- January 9 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, watchmaker (born 1812)
- February 20 – Frederick Douglass, African American rights activist and former slave (born 1817)
- March 22 РHenry Copp̩e, historian and biographer (born 1821)
- April 22 – James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895. (born 1828)
- May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham, politician (born 1832)
- June 23
- Thomas Shaw, buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1846)
- James Renwick Jr., architect (born 1818)
- June 29 – Green Clay Smith, politician (born 1826)
- July 28 – Edward Beecher, theologian (born 1803)
- August 1 – Hugh O'Brien, 31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (born 1827)
- August 6 – George Frederick Root, composer (born 1820)
- August 22 – Luzon B. Morris, politician (born 1827)
- October 2 – Robert Crozier, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (born 1827)
- October 6 – L. L. Langstroth, beekeeper (born 1810)
- October 8 – William Mahone, civil engineer and Confederate Army major general (born 1826)
- October 14 – Clara Doty Bates, poet and children's literature author (born 1838)
- November 4 – Eugene Field, children's author (born 1850)
- Full date unknown – John Miley, Methodist theologian (born 1813)
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