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Movie history events from 1895
The Christian Reform Act outlaws any religion in America not based on Christianity. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Some people carry on. (The Khyber Pass) (Carry On Up the Khyber)
Charles Foster Kane begins his newspaper career. (Citizen Kane)
Louis Lumiere develops and markets a commercially-successful motion picture camera, inventing 'The Movies'. (France) (Ragtime)
Rose Dewitt Bukater is born. (Titanic)
1st January: J. Edgar Hoover is born. (Washington, DC) (Hoover)
6th February: George Herman "Babe" Ruth is born. (Baltimore, Maryland) (The Babe)
6th April: Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. (Oscar Wilde )
19th August: John Wesley Hardin is murdered by an off-duty policeman in a saloon. (El Paso, Texas) (The Lawless Breed)