1891

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Heads of State

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.
April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France.
May 20 - 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.
October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors
December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio
Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball
The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran

January 8 - Walther Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (d. 1957)
February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)
February 11 - J W Hearne English cricket player.
February 27 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971)
March 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor (d. 1984)
March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
March 24 - John Knittel, dramatist (d. 1970)
March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950)
April 2 - Max Ernst, painter (d. 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 (d. 1940)
May 16 - Richard Tauber, tenor (d. 1948)
May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1916)
May 22 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (d. 1963)
May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar
June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
June 20 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976)
June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (d. 1953)
September 14 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst
November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923
November 15 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959)
November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
December 26 - Henry Miller, writer

China - GuāngxÃÂÃÂ¹ Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
France - Marie FranÃÂÃÂ§ois Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States (1889-1893)