Special News Items from around the 1891
Special : 06/29/1891 100ø F (SF, CA)
Special : 12/21/1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
Special : 10/20/1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) begins
Special : 10/25/1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends
Special : 12/19/1891 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
Special : 11/10/1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
Special : 02/26/1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
Special : 02/06/1891 1st great train robber by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
Special : 10/18/1891 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (MSG, NYC) begins
Special : 02/09/1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
Special : 08/05/1891 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
Special : 03/28/1891 1st world weightlifting championship held
Special : 12/02/1891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
Special : 12/07/1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
Special : 07/08/1891 61ø F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila
Special : 03/31/1891 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #308 Polyxo
Special : 11/27/1891 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #322 Phaeo
Special : 02/16/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #305 Gordonia
Special : 03/05/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #307 Nike
Special : 05/16/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #310 Margarita
Special : 06/11/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #311 Claudia
Special : 08/28/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #312 Pierretta
Special : 09/01/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #314 Rosalia
Special : 09/08/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #316 Goberta
Special : 09/11/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #317 Roxane
Special : 09/24/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #318 Magdalena
Special : 10/08/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #319 Leona
Special : 03/21/1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia
Special : 10/12/1891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
Special : 05/15/1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) established
Special : 03/17/1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltor killing 574
Special : 05/05/1891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
Special : 05/06/1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
Special : 09/03/1891 Cottonpickers organize union & staged strike in Texas
Special : 02/12/1891 E Millosevich discovers asteroid #303 Josephina
Special : 03/01/1891 E Millosevich discovers asteroid #306 Unitas
Special : 12/29/1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
Special : 07/08/1891 Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
Special : 11/10/1891 Granville T Woods patents electric railway
Special : 02/07/1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
Special : 07/05/1891 Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
Special : 08/18/1891 Hurricane hits Martinique; about 700 die
Special : 02/14/1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #304 Olga
Special : 04/06/1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #309 Fraternitas
Special : 08/30/1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #313 Chaldaea
Special : 09/04/1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #315 Constantia
Special : 10/11/1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #320 Katharina
Special : 10/15/1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #321 Florentina
Special : 12/15/1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
Special : 04/23/1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
Special : 09/03/1891 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
Special : 05/13/1891 Kingman wins Kentucky Derby
Special : 01/27/1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
Special : 04/07/1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
Special : 03/03/1891 Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created
Special : 05/15/1891 Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
Special : 06/09/1891 Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
Special : 04/01/1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
Special : 11/30/1891 Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published
Special : 04/25/1891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
Special : 10/28/1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
Special : 04/24/1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
Special : 12/20/1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
Special : 08/24/1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
Special : 07/07/1891 Travelers cheque patented
Special : 08/19/1891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
Special : 05/31/1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begans
Special : 05/06/1891 32øF lowest temperature for May in NYC
Special : 09/18/1891 91øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
Special : 03/02/1891 9øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
