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Movie history events from 1893

A Vatican researcher found a letter mentioning the buried church in Kenya. A team came to excavate it. Everyone disappeared. (Vatican City) (Exorcist: The Beginning)

An exposition takes place. (Chicago, Illinois) (House of Wax)

Villagers defeat members of British cantonment at cricket in bid to avoid paying unfair agrarian taxes known as 'Lagaan'. (Champaner, a village in India) (Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India)

Fitzpatrick dies. (Phantasm)

9th March: Claude "Lefty" Williams is born. (Aurora, Missouri) (Eight Men Out)

26th April: Anita Loos is born. (Mt. Shasta, California) (The Audrey Hepburn Story)

1st May: John Phillip Sousa's band debuts on Opening Day at the World's Fair in Chicago. (Chicago, Illinois) (Stars and Stripes Forever)

8th May: Francis Ouimet is born. (Brookline, Massachusetts) (The Greatest Game Ever Played)

7th June: Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) (Gandhi)

26th November: British sailors start from Havre to Lyons. (Le Havre, France) (Dracula: Dead and Loving It)

27th November: Victoria Regina Phibes born (The Abominable Dr. Phibes)

30th November: London Enterprise newspaper mistakenly says Wednesday and has the headline: "CORPSE OF CAPTAIN FOUND ON EMPTY VESSEL. Sole Survivor A Raving Maniac." (London, England) (Dracula: Dead and Loving It)


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