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1891
March 4 - The International Copyright Act is passed by Congress.
March 21 - The long standing Hatfield-McCoy feud of West Virginia ends when a son and a daughter, one from each faction, announce their engagement.
April 27 - Ground is broken for Grant's Tomb in New York City.
July 9 - Irene Coit becomes the first woman to receive a Certificate of Admission to Yale University.
July 24 - Augustus Lewis is arrested in New York for bigamy, having no less than eight living wives.
August 17 - The first public baths with showers open in New York City.
August 18 - Rainmaking experiments are conducted near Midland, Texas by the U.S. government.
August 28 - Alfred Love is elected president of the Universal Peace Union in the U.S.
September 18 - Harriet Maxwell Converse becomes the first white woman to become an American Indian chief of the Six Nations Tribe.
October 7 - 14 Barnard College graduates become the first women to receive college degrees in New York City.