1891 Calendar
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1891 Historical Event(s)
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.
April 1, 1891
– The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
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).
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.
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.
October 28, 1891
– The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
Who Were Born On 1891?
January 8, 1891
– Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
January 27, 1891
– Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967)
April 13, 1891
– Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
May 18, 1891
– Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
June 2, 1891
– Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945)
June 20, 1891
– John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
August 11, 1891
– Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and lecturer (d. 1962)
August 22, 1891
– Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
September 28, 1891
– Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
November 15, 1891
– Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, “The Desert Fox” (d. 1944)