Page 5: Historical Events In 1891
Friday, 31 October 2025
May 05   Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor on this day in history.  
 
 

May 05   On this day in history new York City was the site of the dedication of a building called the Music Hall. The structure is not called the Music Hall anymore, it is called Carnegie Hall, named in honor of Andrew Carnegie.  
 
 

May 06   Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike in the year 1891.  
 
 

May 07   In the year 1891 battle in Bunyoro  Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed  
 
 

May 07   Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed on this day in history.  
 
 

May 07   On this day in history battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed  
 
 

May 08   On this day in history chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+  
 
 

May 08   Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies in the year 1891.  
 
 

May 11   In the year 1891 henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)  
 
 

May 11   In the year 1891 the Otsu Scandal takes place.  
 
 

May 12   On this day in history riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname  
 
 

May 13   17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25 on this day in history.  
 
 

May 13   Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl) on this day in history.  
 
 

May 14   Egon Kornauth, composer on this day in history.  
 
 

May 15   On this day in history british Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms  
 
 

May 15   In the year 1891 british Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) is established  
 
 

May 15   In the year 1891 chief Nipo T Strongheart, Yakima WA, US indian actor (Pony Soldier)  
 
 

May 15   Operations begin at Philips & Company in Holland in the year 1891.  
 
 

May 16   In the year 1891 george A Hormel & Co introduce Spam  
 
 

May 16   George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam in the year 1891.  
 
 

May 18   Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist) on this day in history.  
 
 

May 19   On this day in history rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered  
 
 

May 20   On this day in history history of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.  
 
 

May 21   In the year 1891 boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds  
 
 

May 22   In the year 1891 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs  
 
 

May 22   On this day in history j R Becher, writer  
 
 

May 22   The first motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs in the year 1891.  
 
 

May 23   In the year 1891 ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73  
 
 

May 24   On this day in history benedictus H Danser, Dutch botanist  
 
 

May 25   In the year 1891 robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)  
 
 

May 26   Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  
 
 

May 27   Claude Adonai Champagne, composer on this day in history.  
 
 

May 30   In the year 1891 iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter  
 
 

May 31   Work on trans-Siberian railway begins in the year 1891.  
 
 

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