1890

Years: 1887 1888 1889 - 1890 - 1891 1892 1893
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1890 in art 1890 in literature 1890 in music 1890 in science 1890 in sports

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Heads of State

Events

January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House.
January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
January 25 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
June 1 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 3 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
August 6 - At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed (murderer William Kemmler was the subject).
October 11 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 23 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.
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.
The cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair.
U.S. Census - Herman Hollerith devises method using punch cards (like Jacquard's loom) to tabulate the data by machine, since existing methods would use more than ten years. (see also History of computing hardware). Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.

Births

January 1 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer
January 4 - Victor Lustig, con artist (d. 1947)
January 7 - Henny Porten, actress (d. 1960)
January 9 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
January 9 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
February 10 - Boris Pasternak, writer, winner Nobel Prize in literature
January 19 - Elise Rivet, Roman Catholic nun and war hero (d. 1945)
February 11 - John de Vries, fairy tale writer
February 14 - Nina Hamnett, artist
February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (d. 1963)
February 24 - Marjorie Main, actress (d. 1975)
February 25 - (old date) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
February 27 - Freddie Keppard, jazz musician (d. 1933)
March 9 - (new date) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author of As We May Think (d. 1974)
March 20 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor (d. 1957)
March 20 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer (d. 1973)
March 28 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
April 6 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer
May 10 - Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, author (d. 1980)
May 19 - Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (d. 1969)
May 23 - Herbert Marshall, actor (d. 1966)
June 6 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician and entertainer (d. 1971)
June 16 - Arthur Stanley Jefferson, British actor later known as Stan Laurel
June 26 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (d. 1929)
July 18 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
August 20 - Howard Phillips Lovecraft, horror writer.
August 24 - Duke Kahanamoku, US swimmer
September 10 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
September 15 - Agatha Christie, English mystery writer
September 20 - Jelly Roll Morton. Jazz pianist, composer, bandleader (d. 1941)
October 2 - Groucho Marx, comedian (d. 1977)
October 14 - Dwight David Eisenhower, US general and president
October 16 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
October 16 - Paul Strand, American photographer.
November 22 - Charles de Gaulle, French president
December 5 - David Bomberg, painter
December 8 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer
December 30 - Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot

Deaths

January 18 - Amadeus I of Spain, ex-king
February 22 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman
July 29 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio
November 3 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, member of the Swiss Federal Council (* 1811)
November 8 - César Franck, composer and organist
November 23 - King William III of the Netherlands
December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist

Heads of State

China - Guāngxù Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
France - Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States (1889-1893)