What Day of the Week

1891 Calendar

Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)

•  January 29, 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
•  January 31, 1891 – The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
•  March 10, 1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
•  April 1, 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
•  May 11, 1891 – The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
•  May 15, 1891 – Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
•  May 16, 1891 – The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
•  July 26, 1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
•  August 24, 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
•  October 1, 1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.

•  January 10, 1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970)
•  January 29, 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
•  April 13, 1891 – Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
•  June 9, 1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
•  June 21, 1891 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (d. 1979)
•  August 6, 1891 – William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
•  September 26, 1891 – Charles Münch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
•  October 24, 1891 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
•  November 15, 1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, “The Desert Fox” (d. 1944)
•  December 2, 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)