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" The Great Freeze of 1894 – 95 hastened Miami's growth, as the crops of the Miami area were the only ones in Florida that survived.
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In the winter of 1894-1895, Cocoa suffered a second severe economic setback when the " Great Freeze " destroyed the citrus crop and forced many citrus workers to seek new occupations.
The name reflects the hope of its founders for a fruit-growing industry, but their crops were destroyed in the Great Freeze of 1894-95.
President Field was charged with further securing $ 200, 000 for endowment, but the Great Freeze of 1911, which wiped out half the California citrus crop and severely damaged the local economy, made this impossible.
The financial Panic of 1893, the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 and two devastating freezes ( see Great Freeze for details ) caused financial difficulties and he mortgaged his Florida assets for $ 2 million.
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He disappeared after 1888, but circumstantial evidence suggests that he died in the Great Hinckley Fire in 1894, although this remains impossible to substantiate.
Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.
* Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting: A course of four lectures on electric illumination delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ( 1894 ) 228 pages,.
The Union successfully struck the Great Northern Railway in April 1894, winning most of its demands.
In 1894 Palemon Howard Dorsett, a lifelong Department of Agriculture employee, turned up at the Department of State with a metal die engraved with the Great Seal, claiming it had originally been given to his family by a nephew of George Washington.
Perhaps inspired by the Lydney Park excavations, Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan ( 1890 ; revised and expanded 1894 ) has a Roman pillar dedicated to Nodens.
The summit house's 1894 annex had suffered from storm damage during the Great Hurricane of 1938 and had been demolished ; in 1942 the enclosed tramway to the summit house broke down.
As Ocean Grove drew more and more visitors, the second tabernacle was also outgrown, and construction of the present Great Auditorium was completed in 1894.
The Great Auditorium is mostly unchanged after being constructed in 1894 on bridge-like iron trusses laid on stone foundations.
Acomb was part of the district council of Great Ouseburn, until 1894, when it became a district council in its own right.
His principal works include, " The Boy " ( 1885 ); " Cain " ( 1886 ), later destroyed ; " Brotherly Love ," sometimes called " Two Friends " ( 1887 ); the allegorical " Two Natures " ( 1894, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York ); " The Hewer " ( 1902, at Cairo, Illinois ); " Great God Pan " Dodge Hall quadrangle, Columbia University campus, New York City ; the " Rose Maiden "; the simple and graceful " Maidenhood ".
In 1888 Little Bowden parish was transferred from Northamptonshire to Leicestershire and following the Local Government Act of 1894, an Urban District Council was formed for Market Harborough, covering the town and the parishes of Little and Great Bowden.
Work began in 1875 and the new church was consecrated in 1894 as Saint James Cathedral, after Saint James the Great, the patron of the parish the church served.
In Arthur Machen's 1894 novella The Great God Pan, Helen Vaughan, the satanic villainess and offspring of Pan, lives off Piccadilly in the pseudonynmous Ashley Street.
He demonstrated hands-on leadership in the dry summer of 1894, when the Great Hinckley Fire spread across east-central Minnesota on September 1.
The Great Fire of 1894 destroyed much of the west side of Central Ave., and The Grimes-Davis Mansion, which stood at the corner of Broadway and Central Ave. A gas station now occupies the site.
The BNHS logo is the Great Hornbill, inspired by a Great Hornbill named William, who lived on the premises of the Society from 1894 until 1920, during the honorary secretaryships of H. M. Phipson until 1906 and W. S. Millard from 1906 to 1920.
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Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).
* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.
* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
* 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.
Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220 – 221.
* 1958 – Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait " A Great Day in Harlem " in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
* 1917 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32 % of the city leaving 70, 000 individuals homeless.
* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.
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