Today in History for Year 1890

Months in Year 1890: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 114

Jan 1st - Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
Jan 2nd - Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
Jan 2nd - Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
Jan 3rd - 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
Jan 7th - W B Purvis patents fountain pen
Jan 10th - Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres
Jan 10th - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
Jan 21st - 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
Jan 22nd - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
Jan 25th - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
Jan 25th - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
Jan 25th - United Mine Workers of America forms
Feb 10th - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
Feb 14th - 1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game
Feb 20th - Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
Feb 27th - D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw
Mar 1st - 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
Mar 2nd - Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19)
Mar 4th - The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
Mar 18th - 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
Mar 20th - General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck Mar 20th - German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
Mar 21st - Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
Mar 24th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
Mar 27th - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
Apr 6th - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
Apr 7th - Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
Apr 11th - Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
Apr 14th - Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
Apr 18th - NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
Apr 19th - Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels
Apr 26th - Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London
Apr 27th - French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan
May 2nd - Territory of Oklahoma created
May 6th - Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
May 12th - Louisiana legalized prize fighting
May 12th - The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
May 13th - 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75
May 13th - Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
May 14th - 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45
May 17th - Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC
May 17th - Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
May 17th - Pietro Mascagni's opera "Rustic Chivalry" premieres in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi
May 24th - Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany
May 24th - Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
May 24th - Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
May 30th - 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
Jun 1st - US census at 62,622,250
Jun 6th - United States Polo Association forms, NYC
Jun 9th - Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago
Jun 10th - 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75
Jun 13th - Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
Jun 27th - Cecil Rhodes' colonies attack Motlousi at Matabeleland
Jun 27th - George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
Jul 1st - Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
Jul 1st - Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
Jul 2nd - Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
Jul 3rd - Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
Jul 3rd - King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
Jul 10th - Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
Jul 17th - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
Jul 20th - "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing
Jul 20th - Snow & hail in Calais, ME
Jul 23rd - Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67)
Aug 1st - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
Aug 5th - British & French accord to divide African colonization
Aug 6th - Denton True "Cy" Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game
Aug 6th - At Auburn Prison, New York murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair.
Aug 9th - 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
Aug 14th - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
Aug 16th - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
Aug 25th - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
Sep 1st - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
Sep 3rd - Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open
Sep 12th - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland and found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
Sep 13th - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury
Sep 16th - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers
Sep 19th - Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
Sep 23rd - Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
Sep 24th - Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned
Sep 25th - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)
Sep 25th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
Sep 26th - US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece
Sep 29th - 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in NYC
Oct 1st - Congress creates Weather Bureau
Oct 1st - Yosemite National Park forms
Oct 3rd - Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo
Oct 6th - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
Oct 9th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"
Oct 11th - 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)
Oct 11th - Daughters of American Revolution founded
Oct 13th - The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Oct 15th - Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham
Oct 18th - John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
Oct 23rd - Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
Oct 28th - Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
Nov 4th - Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
Nov 4th - Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London)
Nov 4th - St Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg
Nov 11th - D McCree patents portable fire escape

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 250

Jan 1st - Florence Lawrence, Hamilton Ont, silent screen actress (Confidence)
Jan 1st - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
Jan 4th - Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff
Jan 4th - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP (communist)
Jan 5th - Cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies
Jan 7th - Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star (Deception)
Jan 7th - Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US Open-1912)
Jan 8th - Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst
Jan 9th - Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined the word "robot"
Jan 9th - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co)
Jan 10th - Douglas MacLean, Phila, silent film comedian/producer (Going Up)
Jan 10th - Ernest Milton, SF CA, actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three)
Jan 10th - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
Jan 11th - Monte Blue, Indianapolis IN, silent film actor (Montana, Oh Boy)
Jan 11th - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954)
Jan 11th - Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)
Jan 12th - Mordecai W Johnson, educator
Jan 13th - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945)
Jan 15th - Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
Jan 16th - Karl Freund, Czech/Austrian cameraman/director
Jan 16th - Lloyd Bacon, San Jose CA, actor (Charlie Chaplin)
Jan 22nd - Fred M Vinson, Ky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53)
Jan 22nd - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
Jan 28th - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
Jan 29th - Marguerite Canal, composer
Jan 31st - Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde)
Feb 2nd - Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China)
Feb 3rd - Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria Ill, actor (Calvin & Colonel)
Feb 8th - Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist/opponent of US colonialism
Feb 9th - Jacobus J P Oud, Dutch architect/co-founder (Stijl)
Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak (Feb 10th) Feb 10th - Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
Feb 10th - Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage)
Feb 10th - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918)
Feb 11th - John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer
Feb 11th - David Drummond, Australian politician (d. 1965)
Feb 14th - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
Feb 15th - Robert Ley, Nazi politician. Committed suicide 1945.
Feb 16th - Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer
Feb 18th - Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born)
Feb 18th - Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
Feb 18th - Lauri SA Haarla, Finnish (stage)writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja)
Feb 24th - Antonio Massana, composer
Feb 24th - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
Feb 25th - Myra Hess, London England, concert pianist
Feb 27th - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
Feb 28th - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
Mar 1st - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
Mar 3rd - Norman Bethune, Canada, Doctor in Spain & China
Mar 6th - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
Mar 8th - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
Mar 9th - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN)
Mar 11th - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
Mar 12th - A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
Mar 12th - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
Mar 12th - William Dudley Pelley, American leader of the Silver Legion (d. 1965)
Mar 13th - Michael Taube, composer
Mar 13th - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
Mar 16th - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
Mar 17th - Harold Morris, composer
Mar 18th - Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education
Mar 20th - Lauritz Melchior, Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (Natl Symphony)
Mar 25th - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
Mar 26th - Jozef Arras, Flemish writer
Mar 28th - Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club)
Mar 31st - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
Apr 5th - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
Apr 6th - Anton Hermann Fokker, avation pioneer born
Apr 6th - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
Apr 6th - Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider)
Apr 7th - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
Apr 11th - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
Apr 13th - Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
Apr 17th - Art Acord, Glenwood Sevier UT, western actor (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists)
Apr 18th - James Rennie, Toronto Ontario, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
Apr 19th - Lou Bandy, [Lodewijk F Dieben], revue-artist (Look for the Sun)
Apr 20th - Adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)
Apr 20th - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec, known as "Le Chef" (d. 1959)
Apr 23rd - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
Apr 23rd - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
Apr 26th - Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, US actor/director (My Old Dutch)
May 2nd - E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary). Died 1965
May 3rd - B Traven, writer
May 5th - Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil)
May 6th - Claire Whitney, NY, silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine)
May 7th - Billy House, Minn, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
May 11th - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
May 14th - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
May 15th - Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
May 17th - Philip James, composer
May 19th - Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)
May 20th - Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
May 21st - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
May 23rd - Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)
May 23rd - Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer
May 26th - Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits)
May 29th - Francis de Bourguignon, composer
Jun 1st - Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Wizard of Oz), (d. 1949)
Jun 2nd - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
Jun 6th - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
Jun 6th - Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 70 of 70

Jan 7th - Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
Jan 7th - Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 82
Jan 14th - Francesco D'Arcais, composer, dies at 59
Jan 17th - Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
Jan 18th - Amadeus I FM, king of Spain (1870-73), dies at 44
Jan 20th - Franz Paul Lachner, composer, dies at 86
Jan 30th - Karl Merz, composer, dies at 53
Feb 3rd - Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72
Feb 17th - Christopher Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
Feb 18th - Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66
Feb 22nd - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
Feb 22nd - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
Mar 13th - Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
Mar 16th - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
Mar 20th - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
Mar 22nd - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
Apr 1st - David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
Apr 2nd - Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliographer, dies at 70
Apr 4th - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Quebec politician (b. 1820)
Apr 4th - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)
Apr 8th - Junius Morgan, philanthropist, dies at 76
Apr 11th - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)
Apr 13th - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
Apr 17th - John Barnett, composer, dies at 87
May 6th - Hubert Leonard, composer, dies at 71
May 19th - Gus Kempis, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies of fever at 24
May 28th - Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer, dies at 49
Jun 3rd - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76
Jun 20th - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63
Jun 28th - Edouard Gregoir, composer, dies at 67
Jun 30th - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71
Jul 7th - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
Jul 13th - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
Jul 15th - Gottfried Keller, writer, dies at 70
Jul 16th - Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies
Jul 29th - Vincent Van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France
Aug 3rd - Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76
Aug 11th - John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89
Aug 22nd - Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69
Sep 3rd - Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63
Sep 3rd - Willem Linnig Jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
Sep 5th - Ludwig Deppe, composer, dies at 61
Sep 18th - Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
Sep 22nd - Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79
Oct 3rd - Andries Andre, actor (Trumpeter-Major), dies at 36
Oct 3rd - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
Oct 4th - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
Oct 7th - John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
Oct 13th - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
Oct 17th - Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77
Geographer, Explorer & Translator Richard Francis Burton (Oct 20th) Oct 20th - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
Oct 23rd - Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
Oct 26th - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
Nov 3rd - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
Nov 4th - Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
Nov 4th - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46
Nov 8th - Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67
Nov 16th - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71
Nov 22nd - Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77
Nov 23rd - Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies at 73
Nov 24th - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
Nov 27th - Emmanuele Muzio, composer, dies at 69
Dec 3rd - Bill Midwinter, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia, 4 for England), dies
Dec 4th - Willem III, Dutch king, buried
Dec 10th - Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84
Dec 15th - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US
Dec 21st - Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73
Dec 26th - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86
Dec 29th - Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
Dec 31st - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (b. 1826)