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Thursday, 10
January 1895 |
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Wednesday, 16
January 1895 |
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Wednesday, 6
February 1895 |
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Current Events:
- Babe
Ruth is born. |
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Wednesday,
13 February 1895 |
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Current Events:
- The
moving picture projector is patented. |
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Thursday, 14
February 1895 |
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Current Events:
- The
premiere of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being
Earnest in London. |
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Saturday, 23
February 1895 |
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Current Events:
- The
premiere of Gustav Mahler's
2nd Symphony in Berlin, Germany. |
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- Returning to the Bernese
Alps in south-central Switzerland, Crowley scales many of
its peaks, including the Eiger (13,025 feet), which he
conquered alone. Noting no record of an ascent of Trift
(7,667 feet) from the Mountet side, he and an
“intelligent-looking young Englishman” named Ellis climbed
it in half a day.
[56],
[286] |
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Current Events:
- Oscar
Wilde loses his libel case against the Marquess of
Queensbury, who had accused him of homosexual practices. |
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- Crowley
and Mr. New are climbing at Beachy Head and execute
the Waterhouse Climb, from the Grass Traverse between the
Spit-Block and "Etheldreda’s Pinnacle," emerging at the
angle of the cliff and the “Pinnacle Buttress." They also
climb the Round Topped Pillar by the crack in its West face
& "Nero's Gulley."
[Eastbourne
Gazette]
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- Crowley
and
Gregor Grant
climb
Gullies K. J. and C. Minor climbs. The “Cavern Climb,” an
extremely steep gully from below "The Hornet's Nest" and
running up the cliff face to the foot of Gully A.
[Eastbourne
Gazette]
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Current Events:
- Oscar
Wilde sentenced to two years imprisonment for gross
indecency (homosexuality). |
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Current Events:
- British
inventor, Birt Acres, patents a film camera/projector. |
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- In the summer of 1895
Crowley climbs the peaks of the Jungfrau (13,642 feet), Mönch (13,474 feet),
Eigerjoch, Junfraujoch, Mönchjoch, Beichgrat, Petersgrat and the Wetterhorn (12,113 feet).
[56],
[286] |
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Current Events:
- Caroline
Willard Baldwin is the first female awarded a doctorate from
an American university (Cornell University). |
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Current Events:
- British
Prime Minister Primrose's Liberal Party government falls. |
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Current Events:
- Robert
Gascoyne-Cecil becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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- Crowley,
after receiving a personal recommendations from Lord
Ritchie, former Foreign Secretary and Lord
Salisbury, Britain's then-current prime minister, begins attending
Trinity College, Cambridge and takes a room in 16 St.
John's Street, Cambridge, overlooking St. John's Chapel.
[56],
[233],
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Wednesday, 2
October 1895 |
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Current Events:
- The
first cartoon comic strip is published in a newspaper. |
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Saturday,
12 October 1895 |
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- Crowley
is 20 years old. |
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- Crowley participates
in a debate as part of the Cambridge Union debating society
at Cambridge University. Crowley's team was a "No" on the
topic of "That this House would welcome the expulsion of the
Turks from Constantinople." It's reported that Crowley
pointed out various fallacies in the speeches of his
opponents.
[Cambridge
Review]
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Thursday, 31
October 1895 |
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Current Events:
- German
physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects
electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today
as X-rays. |
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Tuesday, 19
November 1895 |
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Current Events:
- American
inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil. |
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Wednesday,
27 November 1895 |
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Current Events:
- Swedish
chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize. |
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- Crowley's
application for membership in the Alpine Club passes the
membership committee. He is proposed by
J.N. Collie and seconded by Martin Conway. Before his
name comes up for ballot vote on 6 February 1896 his name is
cut out of the proposed membership list. |
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Tuesday,
17 December 1895 |
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Tuesday,
31 December 1895 |
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