What Happened In January 1891 - Historical Events 1891 January

Historical Events for January, 1891

29th » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
31st » History of Portugal (1834–1910) or History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republicanism called republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.

1st » Sampurnanand, Indian politician (d. 1969)
2nd » Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)
4th » Edward Brooker, Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
7th » Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and author (d. 1960)
8th » Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
8th » Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (d. 1986)
8th » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972)
9th » August Gailit, Estonian author (d. 1960)
10th » Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970)
15th » Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
15th » Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
20th » Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
22nd » Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1937)
24th » Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
26th » Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1973)
26th » August Froehlich, German priest and martyr (d. 1942)
26th » Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
27th » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author (d. 1967)
28th » Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
29th » Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
29th » R. Norris Williams, Swiss-American tennis player (d. 1968)

4th » Antoine Labelle, Canadian priest (b. 1833)
5th » Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
16th » Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
17th » George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)
20th » Kalākaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
21st » Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American composer (b. 1842)
26th » Nikolaus Otto, German engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (b. 1833)