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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 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).
•  May 20, 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
•  July 26, 1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
•  August 24, 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
•  October 28, 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.

•  January 7, 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer (d. 1960)
•  March 12, 1891 – George W. Mason, American industrialist (d. 1954)
•  April 7, 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
•  June 6, 1891 – Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar, Karnatakaian poet and playwright (d. 1986)
•  June 10, 1891 – Al Dubin, American lyricist (d. 1945)
•  June 30, 1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
•  September 6, 1891 – John Charles Thomas, American baritone (d. 1960)
•  November 14, 1891 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
•  November 25, 1891 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941)
•  December 9, 1891 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)