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Historical Events in May 1891

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Young's 1st Cleveland Game

May 1 Legendary pitcher Cy Young wins first game played at Cleveland's League Park; Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3

MLB Pitcher Cy Young

Carnegie Hall Opens

May 5 Music Hall (now Carnegie Hall) opens in New York City, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of the New York Music Society Orchestra

Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • May 6 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
  • May 7 Battle in Bunyoro: British Captain Frederick Lugard stops Muslim rebellion, 300 killed

Assassination Attempt on Prince Nicholas

May 11 The Otsu Scandal: While visiting Japan, Prince Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II) survives an assassination attempt

Tsar of Russia Nicholas II
  • May 12 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo, Suriname
  • May 13 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25
  • May 15 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms

Grisélidis

May 15 Jules Massenet's opera "Grisélidis" premieres in Paris

Composer Jules Massenet
  • May 15 Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland

Rerum Novarum

May 15 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum

256th Pope Leo XIII
  • May 16 George A. Hormel & Co establishes Geo. A.Hormel & Co. (Hormel Foods Corporation) in Austin, Minnesota
  • May 19 Rice Institute, which became Rice University in Houston, Texas, is chartered

Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope

May 20 1st public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope to members of the National Federation of Women's Club

Inventor Thomas Edison
  • May 21 Australian boxer Peter Jackson and future world heavyweight champion Jim Corbett fight a No Contest in 61 rounds at California Athletic Club, San Francisco
  • May 31 Work on Trans-Siberian railway begins


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