Today in History for Year 1891

Months in Year 1891: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 95 of 95

Jan 1st - French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
Jan 1st - King Pakketvaart sails to Neth Indies
Jan 26th - Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in NYC
Jan 27th - Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
Jan 29th - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
Jan 31st - The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breakes out in the northern city of Porto.
Feb 6th - 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
Feb 7th - Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
Feb 9th - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
Feb 15th - AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.
Feb 18th - Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
Feb 24th - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
Feb 26th - 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
Feb 26th - Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo
Feb 28th - Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
Mar 3rd - Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
Mar 3rd - Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept)
Mar 3rd - The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
Mar 10th - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde Mar 17th - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
Mar 18th - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
Mar 28th - 1st world weightlifting championship held
Apr 1st - London-Paris telephone connection opens
Apr 1st - Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
Apr 1st - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
Apr 7th - Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
Apr 11th - 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
Apr 23rd - Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
Apr 24th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
Apr 25th - Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
May 1st - Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
May 5th - Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
May 6th - Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
May 7th - Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
Composer Tchaikovsky May 11th - The Otsu Scandal takes place.
May 12th - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
May 13th - 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25
May 15th - British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
May 15th - Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
May 15th - Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
May 15th - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
May 16th - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
May 19th - Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
May 20th - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
May 21st - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
May 22nd - 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs
May 31st - Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
Jun 9th - Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
Jun 10th - 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75
Inventor Thomas Edison Jun 11th - Puerto Rican flag adopted
Jun 16th - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
Jun 29th - 100°F (SF, CA)
Jun 29th - National Forest Service organized
Jun 29th - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
Jul 5th - Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
Jul 7th - Travelers checks patents
Jul 8th - 61°F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila
Jul 14th - John T Smith patents corkboard
Jul 26th - Henry James' "American," premieres in London
Jul 26th - France annexes Tahiti.
Jul 27th - Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname
Aug 5th - 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
Aug 15th - San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
Aug 17th - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
Aug 17th - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
Aug 18th - Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
Aug 19th - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
Aug 21st - Dutch Mackay government resigns
Aug 24th - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
Sep 3rd - 11th US Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62)
Sep 3rd - Cotton pickers organize union & staged strike in Texas
Sep 3rd - John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
Sep 7th - Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria
Sep 11th - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
Sep 14th - "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
Sep 18th - Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
Sep 20th - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
Oct 1st - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
Oct 12th - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
Oct 18th - 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins
Oct 20th - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins
Oct 25th - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends
Oct 28th - Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
Nov 10th - 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
Nov 10th - Granville T Woods patents electric railway
Nov 30th - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published
Inventor James Naismith Dec 1st - James Naismith creates the game of basketball
Dec 2nd - 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
Dec 7th - 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
Dec 15th - James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
Dec 19th - 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
Dec 19th - Canadian Rugby Union forms
Dec 20th - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
Dec 21st - 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
Dec 29th - Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 265

Jan 1st - Frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out)
Jan 3rd - Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
Jan 4th - Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
Jan 5th - Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893]
Jan 6th - Ted McDonald, cricketer (great Australian quick of 20's)
Jan 7th - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
Jan 8th - Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer
Jan 8th - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
Jan 8th - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
Jan 9th - August Gailit, Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor)
Jan 10th - Jos Speybrouck, Flemish painter
Jan 15th - Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
Jan 15th - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
Jan 17th - Marjorie Gateson, Bkln NY, actress (One Man's Family)
Jan 17th - Norman "Squab" Read, US aviator who lived to be 101
Jan 17th - Walter Eucken, German economist
Jan 20th - Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist
Jan 21st - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese runner
Jan 21st - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
Jan 21st - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
Jan 22nd - Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analytical
Jan 22nd - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La Souris Boiteuse)
Jan 23rd - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
Jan 24th - Walter Model, German fieldmarshal
Jan 25th - Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britain, actress (Cleopatra)
Jan 25th - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR
Jan 26th - Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw)
Jan 26th - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
Jan 26th - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
Jan 27th - Ilja Ehrenburg, writer
Jan 28th - Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis)
Jan 28th - Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
Jan 28th - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
Jan 29th - R Norris Williams, American tennis champ (US Open-1914) and survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
Jan 31st - Max Drischner, composer
Feb 1st - James Price Johnson, composer
Feb 2nd - Antonio Segni, premier/president (Italy)
Feb 2nd - Frank Foyston, NHL Hall of Famer (Seattle)
Feb 3rd - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice (1926-33)
Feb 3rd - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
Feb 4th - Yuri Losmann, Estonia, marathon runner (Olympic-silver 1920)
Feb 4th - Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d: 1978).
Feb 5th - Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim California, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled)
Feb 5th - Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum)
Feb 7th - Joachim Stutschewsky, composer
Feb 7th - Ann Little, American actress (d. 1984)
Feb 8th - Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer
Feb 9th - Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
Feb 9th - Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Acad Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
Feb 10th - Harold RLG, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gov-gen of Canada (1945-52)
Feb 11th - J W Hearne, cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for England in 24 Tests). Died 1965
Feb 12th - Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner (1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair)
Feb 12th - Maurice Yvain, composer
Feb 12th - Max Terhune, actor (Arizona Stagecoach, Hit the Saddle, Range Justice)
Feb 13th - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
Feb 16th - Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967)
Feb 17th - Georg Britting, writer
Feb 18th - Chester Clute, NJ, actor (Niagra Falls)
Feb 19th - J C "Farmer" White, cricketer (Somerset slow lefty 1909-37)
Feb 22nd - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
Feb 22nd - Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
Feb 22nd - Lucien Cailliet, composer
Feb 22nd - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
Feb 23rd - Harold Horder, Australian Rugby League player (d. 1978)
Feb 26th - Alan Bridge, PA, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills)
Feb 27th - David Sarnoff, US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA)
Feb 27th - Georges E Migot, French composer
Feb 27th - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
Mar 3rd - Federico Moreno Torroba, composer
Mar 3rd - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council
Mar 4th - Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs)
Mar 4th - Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
Mar 5th - Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, Chicago Ill, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
Mar 6th - Victor Kilian, Jersey City NJ, actor (Gentleman's Agreement)
Mar 7th - Marcel Barger, [Meyer Streliskie], cabaret performer (I keep Susy)
Mar 8th - Sam Jaffe, NYC, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
Mar 10th - Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP)
Mar 12th - Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
Mar 12th - George W. Mason, American industrialist (d. 1954)
Mar 14th - John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa)
Mar 19th - Earl Warren, Ca, (Gov-R-Ca)/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69)
Mar 21st - Jonathan Hale, actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
Mar 23rd - Catherine Murphy Urner, composer
Mar 24th - Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)
Mar 24th - John Knittel, writer
Mar 24th - Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
Mar 28th - Karel MJF Cruysberghs, Flemish author
Mar 28th - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Mar 29th - Ivan Goll, writer
Mar 29th - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980)
Mar 30th - Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)
Mar 31st - Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
Mar 31st - Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
Mar 31st - Victor Varconi, Hungary, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City)
Apr 2nd - Max Ernst, Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism)
Apr 7th - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
Apr 9th - John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor (Electricity, Hostage Rights)
Apr 10th - Tim McCoy, Saginaw MI
Apr 13th - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
Apr 13th - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Mar 21st - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
Jul 8th - Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 75 of 75

Jan 4th - Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies
Jan 4th - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
Jan 5th - Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89
Jan 5th - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
Jan 7th - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
Jan 8th - Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
Jan 11th - Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81
Jan 16th - Clement Philibert Leo Delibes, composer (Lakmé), dies at 54
Jan 17th - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
Jan 20th - David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies
Jan 21st - Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48
Jan 23rd - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21
Jan 26th - Nicholaus Otto, German auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. (b. 1833)
Jan 31st - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
Feb 9th - Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71
Feb 10th - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
Feb 13th - David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77
Feb 14th - William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71
Mar 15th - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
Mar 15th - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
Mar 17th - Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68
Mar 28th - Dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies
Post-Impressionist Painter Georges Seurat (Mar 29th) Mar 29th - Georges Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
Apr 7th - Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88
Apr 15th - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
Apr 17th - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77
Apr 24th - Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
Apr 25th - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
May 4th - Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
May 8th - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
May 11th - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
May 16th - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
May 23rd - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
May 26th - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67
Jun 6th - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
Jun 14th - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77
Jun 23rd - Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73
Jun 23rd - George Parr, cricketer (Nottinghamshire & All-England), dies
Jun 23rd - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
Jun 24th - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer, dies at 80
Jun 28th - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
Jul 3rd - Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
Jul 4th - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
Jul 4th - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
Jul 21st - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
Jul 31st - Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian painter, dies at 77
Aug 4th - George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
Aug 5th - Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73
Aug 12th - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies
Aug 14th - Johnny Mullagh, cricketer (Aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
Aug 22nd - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
Aug 29th - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
Sep 2nd - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76
Sep 7th - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
Sep 9th - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
Sep 18th - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
Sep 27th - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
Moby Dick Author Herman Melville (Sep 28th) Sep 28th - Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72
Sep 30th - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
Oct 3rd - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
Oct 6th - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
Oct 9th - Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
Oct 11th - Charles Stewart Parnells remains buried in Ireland
Oct 15th - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
Oct 16th - Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
Oct 22nd - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
Nov 1st - John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59
Nov 10th - JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37
Dec 5th - JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies
Dec 11th - Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
Dec 17th - Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition
Dec 17th - Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the Congo
Dec 23rd - Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81
Dec 28th - Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47
Dec 29th - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68