Messiah (the second coming of Jesus) and the Mahdi awaited in Islam. May 1 Troops fire on a workers' May Day demonstration in support of the 8-hour workday in Fourmies, France, killing 9 and wounding 30. The first Fascio dei lavoratori (Workers League) is founded by Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida in Catania, Sicily. May 5 – The Music Hall in New York (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Peter Tchaikovsky as guest conductor. May 11 – Ōtsu incident: Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich (the future Czar Nicholas II) of Russia survives an assassination attempt while visiting Japan. May 15 – Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Rerum novarum, on the rights and duties of capital and labor, resulting in the creation of many Christian Democrat parties throughout Europe. May 20 – Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs. May 31 N.S. (May 19 O.S.) – In the Kuperovskaya district of Vladivostok, a grand ceremonial inauguration of construction work on the Trans-Siberian Railway is carried out by the Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich, and a religious service held. June 1 – The Johnstown Inclined Plane opens in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. June 15 – Minas Gerais was granted in 1891. June 16 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister. June 21 – The first long-distance transmission of alternating current is made, from the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado, by Lucien and Paul Nunn. June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine (London) for the first time, in the issue dated July. July–September July 10 – Erik Gustaf Boström becomes Prime Minister of Sweden. July 30 – The Springboks rugby union team of South Africa play their first international test match against the Lions team of the British Isles, and win by 4–0. July 30 – Serbian inventor, Nikola Tesla, becomes a naturalized American citizen at the age of 35. August 27 – France and Russia conclude a defensive alliance. September 14 – The first penalty kick is awarded in a football match; John Heath scores it for the Wolverhampton Wanderers. September 18 – The Chilean Civil War of 1891 ends. September 22 – The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa. September 28 – The C.A. Peñarol is founded in Montevideo,