Today in History for May 1891

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 17 of 17

1st - Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
5th - Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
6th - Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
7th - Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
11th - The Otsu Scandal takes place.
12th - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
13th - 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25
15th - British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
15th - Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
15th - Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
15th - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
16th - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
19th - Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
20th - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
21st - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
22nd - 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs
31st - Work on trans-Siberian railway begins

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 24 of 24

3rd - Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
4th - Frederick Jacobi, composer
4th - Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread)
7th - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988)
8th - Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+
11th - Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)
13th - Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl)
14th - Egon Kornauth, composer
15th - Chief Nipo T Strongheart, Yakima WA, US Native American actor (Pony Soldier)
15th - David Vogel, Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven)
15th - Fritz Feigl, Austria, chemist (spot tests)
15th - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow)
17th - Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
18th - Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist)
19th - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
22nd - J R Becher, writer
22nd - Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of California)
22nd - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
23rd - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
24th - Benedictus H Danser, Dutch botanist
24th - William F Albright, US old testament scholar/archaeologist
25th - Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)
27th - Claude Adonai Champagne, composer
30th - Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

4th - Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
8th - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
11th - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
16th - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
23rd - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
26th - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67