Timeline April 1894

Events in April 1894 3

• 1894 Edison's Kinetoscope parlors open The first commercial motion-picture venue opens in New York The first Kinetoscope parlor, showing short films through Thomas Edison's peep-hole viewing device, opened on Broadway in New York City on 14 April 1894. Viewers paid to watch brief moving images individually rather than as a projected shared screening. The parlors were an early step toward the commercial cinema industry that emerged in the following decade.
• 1894 – 1971 Nikita Khrushchev De-Stalinisation and the Cuban Missile Crisis Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15, 1894 – September 11, 1971) led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. He denounced Stalin's cult of personality, launched Sputnik, and navigated the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was removed in a coup by Politburo colleagues in 1964.
• 1894 – 1987 Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) Died 17 August 1987, aged 93 Hess was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party until his solo flight to Scotland in 1941 in an attempt to negotiate peace with Britain. He was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and served as the last prisoner at Spandau Prison in Berlin. He died there, apparently by suicide.