1890

1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar).

Events

January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House.
January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma fraternity founded
January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
January 25 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
March 1 - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as French Minister of the Interior
March 4 - The longest bridge in Britain, the Forth Bridge (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened.
March 20 - Wilhelm II of Germany fires Otto von Bismarck
March 27 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people and injuring 200.
May 12 - The first ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
June 1 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 1 - Britain receives Zanzibar from Germany in exchange of Heligoland
July 2 - The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Sherman Silver Purchase Act become United States law.
July 3 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
July 27 - Vincent van Gogh shoots himself in the chest and dies two days later
August 6 - At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed (murderer William Kemmler was the subject).
October 8 - First flight of Clement's Ader airplane "Eole" In Satory, France. In Greek mythology, Eole is the god of the winds.
October 11 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
October 13 - The Delta Chi Fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithica, New York.
November 23 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and his daughter Princess Wilhelmina became Queen, Luxembourg only wanted to accept a male heir and broke her personal union with and became fully independent from The Netherlands.
November 29 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
November 29 - In West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24 to 0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
December 29 - The United States Seventh Cavalry massacres over 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (see Wounded Knee Massacre).

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Scotland Yard moves to the Embankment.
The corrugated cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair.
U.S. Census - Herman Hollerith devises a method using punch cards (like Jacquard's loom) to tabulate census data by machine. (see also History of computing hardware). Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
Prosecution of Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln for using ritualistic practices ends
The bustle goes out of fashion.
The United States city of Boise, Idaho drills the US' first geothermal well.

Births

January

January 1 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
January 4 - Victor Lustig, Bohemian-born con artist (d. 1947)
January 9 - Kurt Tucholsky, German-born journalist and satirist (d. 1935)
January 9 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
January 19 - Élise Rivet, French Roman Catholic nun and war heroine (d. 1945)
January 22 - Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)

February

February 10 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
February 14 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
February 17 - Ronald Fisher, English biologist (d. 1962)
February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
February 24 - Marjorie Main, American actress (d. 1975)
February 25 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
February 27 - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)

March

March 3 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939)
March 9 - (new style) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
March 11 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor, and politician (d. 1974)
March 20 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957)
March 20 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor (d. 1973)
March 28 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
March 31 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

April

April 6 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (d. 1939)
April 11 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)

May

May 4 - Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
May 10 - Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
May 11 - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
May 19 - Ho Chi Minh, Prime minister/president of North Vietnam (d. 1969)
May 23 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)

June

June 6 - Ted Lewis, American jazz musician and entertainer (d. 1971)
June 16 - Stan Laurel, British actor (d. 1965)
June 26 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (d. 1929)
June 29 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, oldest known living person May 2004 - Aug 2005 (d. 2005)

July

July 18 - Frank Forde, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1983)
July 22 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American philanthropist and matriarch of the Kennedy family (d. 1995)

August

August 5 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 1956)
August 15 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962)
August 15 - Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, current second oldest living person
August 18 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
August 20 - Howard Phillips Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
August 24 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (d. 1968)

September

September 10 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
September 15 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
September 15 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
September 20 - Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1941)

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