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1891 Calendar

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•  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.
•  March 17, 1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
•  May 5, 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
•  May 20, 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
•  June 16, 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
•  July 26, 1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
•  August 18, 1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
•  October 1, 1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.

•  January 22, 1891 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, and political theorist (d. 1937)
•  February 27, 1891 – Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
•  April 22, 1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
•  June 2, 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945)
•  June 20, 1891 – Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano (d. 1951)
•  August 22, 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
•  September 11, 1891 – William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949)
•  September 28, 1891 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
•  October 13, 1891 – Irene Rich, American actress (d. 1988)
•  December 25, 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d. 1980)