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1891 Calendar

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•  January 29, 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
•  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 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 20, 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
•  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.
•  October 28, 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.

•  January 29, 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
•  February 13, 1891 – Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
•  February 27, 1891 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
•  March 4, 1891 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961)
•  June 30, 1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
•  October 12, 1891 – Edith Stein, Carmelite Catholic nun (d. 1942)
•  November 15, 1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, “The Desert Fox” (d. 1944)
•  November 28, 1891 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
•  December 23, 1891 – Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)