Admiral Sir Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley VC, KCB, DSC, DL, RN ( 1893 – 1986 ) was a British admiral in World War II and a hero of the First World War.

A small blot occurred in the summer of 1893 when, while commanding a torpedo boat, Scott ran it aground, a mishap which earned him a mild rebuke.

* was an Alarm-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1893.

He built his first submarine, Argonaut Junior, in 1894 in response to an 1893 request from the Navy for a submarine torpedo boat.

* HMS Dryad was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1893 and renamed HMS Hamadryad in 1918 before being sold for scrapping in 1920.

* Ralph Waldo Christie ( 1893 – 1987 ), Navy Admiral involved with torpedo and submarine operations before and during World War II

* was a Havock-class destroyer launched in 1893, becoming the first design of torpedo boat destroyers in the Navy.

* Argonaute ( 1893 ), a torpedo boat

A prime research tool for film historians, the catalog consists of entries on more than 50, 000 films, from 1893 to the mid-1970s, documenting casts, crews, synopses and production notes.

Between 1892 and 1893, Eastman experienced problems with production.

Oil production in the Los Angeles Basin started with the discovery of the Brea-Olinda Oil Field in 1880, and continued with the development of the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1893, the Beverly Hills Oil Field in 1900, the Salt Lake Oil Field in 1902, and many others.

So uncustomary was the French Aesthetic viewpoint that, when Pierrot made an appearance in an eponymous pantomime ( 1893 ) by Alfred Thompson, set to music by the American composer Laura Sedgwick Collins, The New York Times covered it as an event, even though it was only a student production.

Electrification enabled modern mass production, as with Thomas Edison ’ s iron ore processing plant ( about 1893 ) that could process 20, 000 tons of ore per day with two shifts of five men each.

While popular farces and melodramas like the stage adaptation of Trilby anchored the repertoire ( the production ran for an extraordinary 260 performances ), Tree also encouraged the new drama, staging Maeterlinck's The Intruder ( 1890 ), Ibsen's An Enemy of the People ( 1893 ) and Wilde's A Woman of No Importance ( 1893 ), among others.

In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrile in conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory.

Several powerful hurricanes following the Civil War and up to the 1893 hurricane resulted in uprooted trees and flood damaged dikes in the rice fields and ultimately ended the production of rice on the Waccamaw Neck.

Tarkington returned to the Triangle stage as Cassius in the 1893 production The Honorable Julius Caesar.

* Cedric Gibbons ( 1893 – 1960 ), prolific film art director and production designer

Following the completion of a railway line to Roberval in 1893, Chicoutimi especially developed at the beginning of the 20th century as an industrial city based on pulp production.

A scene from the original production of Verdi's Falstaff ( opera ) | Falstaff ( 1893 ) as depicted by artist Ettore Tito.

Another Browning design, the Winchester Model 1893 was the first successful pump-action shotgun design ; as strengthened in 1897 for smokeless-propellant shells, it remained in production until the mid 1950s.

The production of elongated coins can be divided into three general classes, each of which covers a distinct period from 1893 to the present.

In 1893, William Britain revolutionized the production of toy soldiers by devising the method of hollow casting, making soldiers that were cheaper and lighter than their German counterparts.

In 1893, he appeared together with Violet Vanbrugh, elder sister of Irene Vanbrugh, in Daly's production of Love in Tandem at Daly's Theatre in London.

The 1893 production, The Honorable Julius Caesar, was again a reworking of Shakespeare.

He got a patent for lamps with tungsten filaments ( US Patent No. 575, 002 Illuminant for Incandescent Lamps, Application on January 4, 1893 ) and sold it to General Electric ( 1906 ), who began the first industrial production of such lamps.

These include the opera ' The Fall of the House of Usher ' ( 1915 – 17 ), first performed at the Bregenzer Festspiele on 7 August 2006 in a production by Phyllida Lloyd and now available on DVD Capriccio 93517 ; No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence '( 1914 ), first performed in Los Angeles on 8 May 2006, conducted by Ransom Wilson ; ' Fetes galantes ' ( 1915 ); ' La Saulaie ' ( 1899 – 1900 ); ' Nocturne ' for Violin and Orchestra ( 1893 – 96 ); ' Poeme ' for Violin and Orchestra ( 1910 – 14 ); as well as orchestrations of ' Diane au bois ' ( 1881 – 85 ); the ' Proses lyriques ' ( 1892 – 93 ); the ' Chansons de Blitis ' ( 1898 ) and the ' Second Suite Bergamasque ' ( 1904 ).

One of the first official demonstrations of the production ability of Milking Shorthorns was made at the World's Exposition in Chicago in 1893 where two of the leading cows of the test were Kitty Clay 3rd and Kitty Clay 4th, the latter standing third in net profit over all breeds.

His 1893 book Poems was a Meynell production and initiative.

In 1893, the world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the Kinetographic Theater, was completed on the grounds of Edison's laboratories at West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making film strips for the Kinetoscope.

The production of pigment at the works ceased in 1857, but mining was kept up until 1893.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

The character was in the Brussels police force by 1893.

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

A collection of his work, Les minutes de sable mémorial, was published in 1893.

In 1893, Mortimer Durand was deputed to Kabul by the government of British India for this purpose of settling an exchange of territory required by the demarcation of the boundary between northeastern Afghanistan and the Russian possessions, and in order to discuss with Amir Abdur Rahman Khan other pending questions.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

He was followed by Ḍiyá ' iyyih < u > Kh </ u > ánum, Fu ’ ádíyyih < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( d. few years old ), Rúhangíz Khánum ( d. 1893 ), Túbá Khánum, Husayn Effendi ( d. 1887 aged 5 ), Túbá < u > Kh </ u > ánum, Rúhá < u > Kh </ u > ánum and Munnavar < u > Kh </ u > ánum.

However, their time in league football was even less successful and considerably briefer than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893 and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems.

Alexandria was founded in 1836 and was chartered as a city in 1893.

The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of the Matabele kingdom, was administered from the Bechuanaland Protectorate after 1893, to which it was formally annexed in 1911.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

The institution, also called BankItalia, was established in 1893 from the combining of three major banks in Italy after the Banca Romana scandal.

In September 1893 Potter was on holiday at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire.

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

By 1900, the family was farming southeast of Streetman, Texas, and Lemon Jefferson's birth date is indicated as September 1893 in the 1900 census.

The 1910 census, taken in May before his birthday, further confirms his birth year as 1893, and indicated the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near Lemon Jefferson's birthplace.

When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

Clark Ashton Smith ( 13 January 1893 – 14 August 1961 ) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

Smith was born January 13, 1893 in Long Valley, California, of English and Yankee parentage.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.