What Happened In March 1891 - Historical Events 1891 March

Historical Events for March, 1891

10th » Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
17th » SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson 1886 6 in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.

3rd » Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (d. 1949)
3rd » Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (d. 1982)
4th » Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961)
4th » Lois W., American activist, co-founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
8th » Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)
9th » José P. Laurel, Filipino politician, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
10th » Sam Jaffe, American actor and engineer (d. 1984)
11th » Gertrud Wolle, German actress (d. 1952)
12th » George W. Mason, American businessman (d. 1954)
18th » Alice Cullen (politician) e.g Alice Cullen, Scottish politician (d. 1969)
19th » Earl Warren, American politician and jurist, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
21st » Jonathan Hale, Canadian-American actor (d. 1966)
24th » Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist (d. 1951)
27th » A. P. Elkin, Australian anthropologist and priest (d. 1979)
27th » Vallance Jupp, English cricketer (d. 1960)
27th » Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1974)
29th » Yvan Goll, French-German poet (d. 1950)
29th » Alfred Neubauer, Czech race car driver and manager (d. 1980)
31st » Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1976)