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Art Neuendorffer
Mrs. Henry Pott: _Francis Bacon & his Secret Society_ (1891):
The Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung was set up in 1890 and the first
meeting of the Association was organised in HALLE in September 1891.
Despite the bitter antagonism between Cantor and Kronecker, Cantor
invited Kronecker to address this first meeting as a sign of respect for
one of the senior and most eminent figures in German mathematics.
However, Kronecker never addressed the meeting, since his wife was
seriously injured in a climbing accident in the summer and died on
AUGUST 23, 1891. Kronecker only outlived his wife by a few months,
and died in December 1891.>>
Sir James Matthew (Baronet) Barrie's melodramatic novel,
THE LITTLE MINISTER (1891), became a huge success,
and was filmed later three times.
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1/1/1891 An office was opened on Ellis Island, New York,
to cope with the vast flood of immigrants
1/8/1891 Walter Bothe, particle physicist (Nobel 1954), born
1/24/1891 Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani steps down from the throne on to
avoid any bloodshed and to pardon her supporters who had been jailed
by the Provisional Government. After 4 days as queen, Liliuokalani fought
against making Hawaii a part of the United States. Five years later the
U.S. Congress annexed Hawaii--without a vote from the Hawaiians.
2/14/1891 William Tecumseh Sherman dies in New York City. His famous
"March to the Sea" changed modern warfare. "Vox populi, vox humbug."
(The voice of the people is the voice of humbug).
2/27/1891 David Sarnoff, RCA pioneer of U.S. television, born.
3/17/1891 British steamer Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar.
3/19/1891 Earl Warren born. 14th Supreme Court Chief Justice
(1953-1969) led the Warren Commission that investigated the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "I always turn to
the sports page first. The sports page records people's
accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failure."
3/24/1891 Evening Sun early obituary to to allow Barnum to read it.
3/26/1891 Phineas Taylor Barnum dies at 72.
4/1/1891 The London-Paris telephone connection opened.
4/2/1891 Max Ernst, founder of surrealism, born.
April 23, 1891 Serge Prokofiev (Romeo & Juliet) born
4/29/1891 Mars/Neptune conjunction
May 4, 1891 Prof. James Moriarty dies from climbing accident
5/5/1891 Carnegie Hall (then named Music Hall) has
its opening night; Tchaikovsky guest conductor.
5/8/1891 Helene Petrovna Blavatsky dies in London
5/10/1891 Mercury TRANSIT
6/9/1891 Cole Porter born (d.1964)
6/28/1891 Esther Forbes (Johnny Tremain author), born.
6/28/1891 Chicago Herald built Columbus MONVMENT on San Salvador.
7/23/1891 Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, born.
7/31/1891 Great Britain declared territories in Southern Africa
up to the Congo to be within their sphere of influence.
8/23/1891 Prof. Kronecker's wife dies from climbing accident
9/?/1891 Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung first meeting. Despite their
bitter antagonism Baconian Cantor invites Kronecker to address meeting.
9/28/1891 Herman Melville (b.1819), dies in obscurity in New York City
10/1/1891 The Leland Stanford Junior Memorial Univ. in Palo Alto, Ca.,
was dedicated. Stanford Univ. opened its Mission Romanesque Quadrangle.
Established by Leland & Jane Stanford in honor of their late son.
12/29/1891 Kronecker dies.
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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/billybudd/edition.html
<<Melville worked on Billy Budd during the final years
of his life, and though he seems to have essentially
finished a draft of the novel, he never prepared it for
publication. When he died September 28, 1891
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Mercury TRANSIT 10 May 1891
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020509.html
TRANSIT starts at 9 May 1891 23:51
TRANSIT ends at 10 May 1891 4:52
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Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891)
<<P.T. Barnum: the most famous American showman of all time.
He began his career in 1835 when he purchased a very old
hymn-singing slave named Joice HETH and exhibited her
as the 161 year old nurse of GEORGE WASHINGTON.
An added attraction: the preserved body of a FeeJee MERMAID.>>
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Mrs. Henry Pott: _Francis Bacon & his Secret Society_ (1891):
The Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung was set up in 1890 and the first
meeting of the Association was organised in HALLE in September 1891.
Despite the bitter antagonism between Cantor and Kronecker, Cantor
invited Kronecker to address this first meeting as a sign of respect for
one of the senior and most eminent figures in German mathematics.
However, Kronecker never addressed the meeting, since his wife was
seriously injured in a climbing accident in the summer and died on
AUGUST 23, 1891. Kronecker only outlived his wife by a few months,
and died in December 1891.>>
Sir James Matthew (Baronet) Barrie's melodramatic novel,
THE LITTLE MINISTER (1891), became a huge success,
and was filmed later three times.
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Art Neuendorffer