1891

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1891 is a year that will stand in history as the time when a huge earthquake hit Japan and technological breakthroughs like the patenting of the radio took place.

Important events

• The first day of the year saw Germany starting to pay the old age pension.
• March 3 – The 51st Congress of The United States of America passes the International Copyright Act of 1891
• March 17 – 574 people were killed after SS Utopia British ship sunk off the coast of Gibraltar
• May 5 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky becomes the first man to conduct in the Music Hall in New York. It later became known as Carnegie Hall.
• May 20 – For the first time in history a kinetoscope is showed to the public. It was built by Thomas Alva Edison
• June 16 – John Abbott become the third ever prime minister in Canada
• August 27 – An alliance with the purpose of defense is concluded between Russia and France
• October 1 – World renowned Stanford University is inaugurated.
• October 27 – An earthquake measured 8.0 on the Richter scale hit Utsuzumi, Japan. The result was a 3 meter tall fault visible today and over 7,000 people dead.
• December 29 – Radio is patented by Thomas Edison.

Other important events that have unknown events include:

• The shift of the London Metropolitan Police headquarters to New Scotland Yard
• Homo Erectus fossils were discovered by Eugene Dubois in Java
• A Civil War took place in Chile

Dates of birth

• January 7 – Renaissance writer born in Harlem Zora Neale Hurston, died in 1960. One day later Walther Bothe, German physicist that was to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics (died in 1957).
• February 9 – English author Ronald Colman, died in 1958
• March 10 – American actor Sam Jaffe, died in 1984
• April 2 – German painter Max Ernst, died in 1976
• May 15 – Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, died in 1940
• May 18 – German philosopher Rudolf Carnap, died in 1970
• May 24 – American Biblical scholar and archeologist William F. Albright, died in 1971
• June 20 – Irish John A. Costello. He was to become the second President of Ireland and died in 1976
• August 21 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, American super centenarian, the oldest American veteran of World War I that lived
• November 14 – Canadian physicist that was to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Frederick Banting, died in 1941
• December 26 – American writer Henry Miller, died in 1980