1891

Events

   * January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor
     of that state.
   * January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii
   * March 17 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of
     Gibraltar, killing 574.
   * May 1 - Fourmies Massacre - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops
     fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of 8-hour day in
     Fourmies, France.
   * May 20 - Film history: First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's
     prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of
     the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
   * June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
   * June 21 - first long-distance transmission of Alternating current by
     the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
   * August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.
   * Winter James Naismith invents Basketball
   * December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio

Births

   * January 8 - Walter Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for
     Physics in 1954 (+ 1957)
   * February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (+ 1958)
   * February 11 - J W Hearne English cricket player.
   * February 27 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (+ 1971)
   * March 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor (+ 1984)
   * March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (+ 1974)
   * March 24 - John Knittel, dramatist (+ 1970)
   * March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (+ 1950)
   * April 2 - Max Ernst, painter (+ 1976)
   * April 13 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist.
   * April 17 - George Adamski, UFO traveler
   * April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
   * May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, writer (+ 1940)
   * May 16 - Richard Tauber, tenor (+ 1948)
   * May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (+ 1970)
   * May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (+ 1916)
   * June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
   * September 14 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst
   * November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the
     Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923
   * November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
   * December 26 - Henry Miller, writer

Deaths

   * January 5 - Emma Abbott, american opera singer
   * January 21 - Calixa LavallŽe, composer
   * April 7 - P. T. Barnum, circus impresario
   * July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, US politician.
   * September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author of Oblomov.
   * October 6 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Nationalist leader.
   * October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer.
   * November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet

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