1893

1893

World's Fair: The Columbia Exposition

The Panic of 1893. Stock exchange crash.

New Zealand first country in world to grant women's suffrage.

First exclusively African-American high school opens in U.S. Its name? Colored High (not kidding)

SCOTUS declares tomatoes 'a vegetable.'

born: Hermann Göring, Jimmy Durante, Big Bill Broonzy, Lillian Gish.

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony #9, op. 95, "From the New World"

And go here for the Columbia University Orchestra's recording of Dvořák's 8th and 9th symphonies, and also Beethoven's 7th, Brahms' 1st, &c., &c. Lots of good stuff.