5th » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
11th » The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
Famous Birthdays on May in 1891
3rd » Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)
7th » Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
10th » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (d. 1934)
15th » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian author and playwright (d. 1940)
15th » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (d. 1971)
16th » Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor and actor (d. 1948)
17th » Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
17th » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (d. 1957)
18th » Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher (d. 1970)
19th » Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot (d. 1916)
22nd » Eddie Edwards (musician) or Eddie Edwards, American baseball player and trombonist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) (d. 1963)
23rd » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
24th » William F. Albright, American archeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
27th » Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (d. 1965)
27th » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and writer (d. 1958)