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Events on the year of 1891 in history

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01 Jan 1891 French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
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01 Jan 1891 King Pakketvaart sails to the Netherlands Indies
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26 Jan 1891 Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua" premieres in New York City NY
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27 Jan 1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
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29 Jan 1891 Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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31 Jan 1891 History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
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06 Feb 1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
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07 Feb 1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
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09 Feb 1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
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15 Feb 1891 Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
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18 Feb 1891 Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
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24 Feb 1891 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Di
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26 Feb 1891 Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler, " premieres in Oslo
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26 Feb 1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
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28 Feb 1891 Oscar Grund
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03 Mar 1891 Congress creates Office of Supt of Immigration (Treasury Department)
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03 Mar 1891 Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
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03 Mar 1891 Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created
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10 Mar 1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
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17 Mar 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
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17 Mar 1891 SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
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18 Mar 1891 Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
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21 Mar 1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
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23 Mar 1891 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall
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28 Mar 1891 1st world weightlifting championship held
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01 Apr 1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
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01 Apr 1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
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01 Apr 1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
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07 Apr 1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
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11 Apr 1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumour spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
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23 Apr 1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
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24 Apr 1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
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25 Apr 1891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco
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05 May 1891 Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
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05 May 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.
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06 May 1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
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07 May 1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
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11 May 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.
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12 May 1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
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13 May 1891 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52
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15 May 1891 Jules Massenets opera "Griselde, " premieres in Paris
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15 May 1891 Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
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15 May 1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) is established
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15 May 1891 Jules Massenets opera "Griselde" premieres in Paris France
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15 May 1891 Operations begin at Philips & Company in Holland
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15 May 1891 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
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16 May 1891 The International Electrotechnical 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).
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16 May 1891 George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam
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19 May 1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
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20 May 1891 History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
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21 May 1891 Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
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22 May 1891 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs
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31 May 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
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09 Jun 1891 Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
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10 Jun 1891 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75
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11 Jun 1891 Puerto Rican flag adopted
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11 Jun 1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #311 Claudia
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16 Jun 1891 John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
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29 Jun 1891 National Forest Service organized
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29 Jun 1891 100
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05 Jul 1891 Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, South Dakota
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07 Jul 1891 Travelers checks patents
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08 Jul 1891 Future President Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
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09 Jul 1891 Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University
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14 Jul 1891 John T Smith patents corkboard
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26 Jul 1891 France annexes Tahiti.
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27 Jul 1891 Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname
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05 Aug 1891 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
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16 Aug 1891 The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
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17 Aug 1891 Electric self-starter for automobile patented
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18 Aug 1891 Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
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19 Aug 1891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
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21 Aug 1891 Dutch Mackay government resigns
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24 Aug 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
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03 Sep 1891 11th US Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62)
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03 Sep 1891 Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas
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03 Sep 1891 John Stephens Durham, named Minister to Haiti
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07 Sep 1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria
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14 Sep 1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
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18 Sep 1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
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01 Oct 1891 In California, Stanford University opens its doors.
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12 Oct 1891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
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18 Oct 1891 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins
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20 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins
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20 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) begins
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25 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends
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25 Oct 1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends
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28 Oct 1891 The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
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28 Oct 1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
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10 Nov 1891 Granville T Woods patents electric railway
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10 Nov 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
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01 Dec 1891 James Naismith creates the game of basketball
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02 Dec 1891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
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07 Dec 1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
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15 Dec 1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
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19 Dec 1891 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
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19 Dec 1891 Canadian Rugby Union forms
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20 Dec 1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands the pull of 4 horses
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21 Dec 1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
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22 Dec 1891 Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
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29 Dec 1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
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