Today in History for January 1891

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 6 of 6

1st - French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
1st - King Pakketvaart sails to Neth Indies
26th - Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in NYC
27th - Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
29th - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
31st - The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breakes out in the northern city of Porto.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 35 of 35

1st - Frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out)
3rd - Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
4th - Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
5th - Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893]
6th - Ted McDonald, cricketer (great Australian quick of 20's)
7th - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
8th - Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer
8th - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
8th - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
9th - August Gailit, Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor)
10th - Jos Speybrouck, Flemish painter
15th - Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
15th - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
17th - Marjorie Gateson, Bkln NY, actress (One Man's Family)
17th - Norman "Squab" Read, US aviator who lived to be 101
17th - Walter Eucken, German economist
20th - Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist
21st - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese runner
21st - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
21st - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
22nd - Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analytical
22nd - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La Souris Boiteuse)
23rd - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
24th - Walter Model, German fieldmarshal
25th - Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britain, actress (Cleopatra)
25th - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR
26th - Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw)
26th - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
26th - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
27th - Ilja Ehrenburg, writer
28th - Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis)
28th - Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
28th - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
29th - R Norris Williams, American tennis champ (US Open-1914) and survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
31st - Max Drischner, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

4th - Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies
4th - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
5th - Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89
5th - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
7th - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
8th - Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
11th - Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81
16th - Clement Philibert Leo Delibes, composer (Lakmé), dies at 54
17th - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
20th - David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies
21st - Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48
23rd - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21
26th - Nicholaus Otto, German auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. (b. 1833)
31st - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75