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List of events
Events from the year 1890 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Thomas Seay (
Democratic ) (starting December 1),
Thomas G. Jones (
Democratic ) (starting December 1)
Governor of Arkansas :
James Philip Eagle (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
Robert Waterman (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Job Adams Cooper (
Republican )
Governor of Connecticut :
Morgan G. Bulkeley (
Republican )
Governor of Delaware :
Benjamin T. Biggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Francis P. Fleming (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
John Brown Gordon (
Democratic ) (until November 8),
William J. Northen (
Democratic ) (starting November 8)
Governor of Idaho :
George L. Shoup (
Republican ) (until December 18),
N. B. Willey (
Republican ) (starting December 18)
Governor of Illinois :
Joseph W. Fifer (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
Alvin P. Hovey (
Republican )
Governor of Iowa :
William Larrabee (
Republican ) (until February 27),
Horace Boies (
Democratic ) (starting February 27)
Governor of Kansas :
Lyman U. Humphrey (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Simon B. Buckner (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Francis T. Nicholls (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Edwin C. Burleigh (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Elihu Emory Jackson (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Oliver Ames (
Republican ) (until January 7),
John Q. A. Brackett (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Michigan :
Cyrus G. Luce (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
William R. Merriam (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
Robert Lowry (
Democratic ) (until January 13),
John M. Stone (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Missouri :
David R. Francis (
Democratic )
Governor of Montana :
Joseph Toole (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
John Milton Thayer (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Charles C. Stevenson (
Republican ) (until September 21),
Frank Bell (
Republican ) (starting September 21)
Governor of New Hampshire :
David H. Goodell (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
Robert Stockton Green (
Democratic ) (until January 21),
Leon Abbett (
Democratic ) (starting January 21)
Governor of New York :
David B. Hill (
Democratic )
Governor of North Carolina :
Daniel Gould Fowle (
Democratic )
Governor of North Dakota :
John Miller (
Republican )
Governor of Ohio :
Joseph B. Foraker (
Republican ) (until January 13),
James E. Campbell (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Oregon :
Sylvester Pennoyer (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
James A. Beaver (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Herbert W. Ladd (
Republican ) (until May 26),
John W. Davis (
Democratic ) (starting May 26)
Governor of South Carolina :
John Peter Richardson III (
Democratic ) (until December 4),
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (
Democratic ) (starting December 4)
Governor of South Dakota :
Arthur C. Mellette (
Republican )
Governor of Tennessee :
Robert Love Taylor (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Lawrence Sullivan Ross (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
William P. Dillingham (
Republican ) (until October 2),
Carroll S. Page (
Republican ) (starting October 2)
Governor of Virginia :
Fitzhugh Lee (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
Philip W. McKinney (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Washington :
Elisha Peyre Ferry (
Republican )
Governor of West Virginia :
Emanuel Willis Wilson (
Democratic ) (starting February 6),
Aretas B. Fleming (
Democratic ) (starting February 6)
Governor of Wisconsin :
William D. Hoard (
Republican )
Governor of Wyoming :
Francis E. Warren (
Republican ) (until November 24),
Amos W. Barber (
Republican ) (starting November 24)
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–June
January–June period –
George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record
phonograph cylinders , in New York.
January 1 – In
Michigan , the wooden steamer Mackinaw burns in a fire on the
Black River .
[1]
January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the
White House .
[2]
January 22 – The
United Mine Workers is founded.
January 25 – Journalist
Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
February 24 –
Chicago is selected to host the
Columbian Exposition .
March 2–7 – The
Cherry Creek Campaign occurs in
Arizona Territory .
March 3 – The first American football game in
Ohio State University history is played in Delaware, Ohio against
Ohio Wesleyan University ; Ohio State wins 20–14.
March 8 –
North Dakota State University is founded in
Fargo, North Dakota .
March 27 – A
tornado strikes
Louisville, Kentucky , killing 76 people and injuring 200.
March 28 –
Washington State University is founded in
Pullman, Washington .
May –
National American Woman Suffrage Association established.
[3]
May 2 –
Oklahoma Territory is organized.
May 31 – The 5-story skylight
Cleveland Arcade opens in
Cleveland, Ohio .
June 1 – The
United States Census Bureau begins using
Herman Hollerith 's
tabulating machine to record
census returns using
punched card input, a landmark in the
history of computing hardware . Hollerith's company eventually becomes
IBM .
June 12 – On
Lake Huron (Michigan), the wooden steamer Ryan is lost near
Thunder Bay Island .
[1]
June 20 –
The Picture of Dorian Gray by
Oscar Wilde published by
Philadelphia -based
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .
July–December
June 9:
Idaho becomes the 43rd state (1891–1957 seal pictured)
December 29:
Wounded Knee Massacre
July 2 – The
Sherman Antitrust Act becomes U.S. law.
July 3 –
Idaho is admitted as the 43rd
U.S. state (see
History of Idaho ).
July 10 –
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state (see
History of Wyoming ).
July 13 – In
Minnesota , storms result in the
Sea Wing disaster on
Lake Pepin killing 98.
August 6 – At
Auburn Prison in
New York ,
William Kemmler becomes the first person to be
executed in the
electric chair .
August 10 – In
Boston , Irish-born poet
John Boyle O'Reilly dies suddenly, aged 46. The death triggers a mass outpouring of grief and tributes across the country and the world.
September –
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President
Wilford Woodruff issues the "
1890 Manifesto " officially advising against any future
polygamy in the Church.
September 25 –
Sequoia National Park created.
October 1 –
Yosemite National Park created.
October 11 – In
Washington, D.C. , the
Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
[4]
October 13
November 29 – In
West Point, New York , the
United States Navy defeats the
United States Army 24–0 in the first
Army–Navy football game .
December 24 – The Oklahoma territorial legislature establishes three institutions of higher learning
University of Oklahoma ,
Oklahoma State University , and
University of Central Oklahoma .
December 29 –
Wounded Knee Massacre : Near
Wounded Knee Creek ,
South Dakota the
U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disarm a
Native American camp and shooting starts. 153
Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene.
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
Births
Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 4 –
Victor Adamson , Western film director, producer, screenwriter and actor (died
1972 )
January 21 –
Wesley Englehorn , American football player (died
1993 )
January 22 –
Fred M. Vinson , 13th
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (died
1953 )
January 28 –
Robert Franklin Stroud , "Birdman of Alcatraz" (died
1963 )
February 18
February 24 –
Marjorie Main , character actress (died
1975 )
February 27
March 11 –
Vannevar Bush , science administrator (died
1974 )
March 21 –
C. Douglass Buck , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1943 to 1949 (died
1965 )
March 28 –
Paul Whiteman , bandleader (died
1967 )
April 7
April 13 –
Frank Murphy , politician and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1949 )
April 23 –
Adelbert Ford , psychologist (died 1976)
[6]
May 1 –
Laurence Wild , basketball player and 30th
Governor of American Samoa (died 1971)
May 11 –
Woodall Rodgers , lawyer and politician,
Mayor of Dallas (died
1961 )
May 15 –
Katherine Anne Porter , author (died
1980 )
June 1 –
Frank Morgan , character actor (died 1949)
June 12 –
Junius Matthews , actor (died
1978 )
June 26
June 28 –
William H. P. Blandy , admiral (d.
1954 )
June 30 –
Gertrude McCoy , actress (d.
1967 )
July 22 –
Rose Kennedy , philanthropist and matriarch of the
Kennedy family (died
1995 )
July 26 –
Daniel J. Callaghan , admiral (killed in action
1942 )
August 11 –
Lillian Holley , sheriff (d.
1994 )
August 20 –
H. P. Lovecraft , horror fiction author (died
1937 )
September 9 –
Colonel Sanders , founder of
Kentucky Fried Chicken (died
1980 )
September 20 –
Jelly Roll Morton , jazz pianist, composer and bandleader (died
1941 )
September 24 –
Allen J. Ellender , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1937 to 1972 (died 1972)
October 1
October 2 –
Groucho Marx , comedian (died
1977 )
October 8 –
Eddie Rickenbacker , race car driver and World War I fighter pilot (died
1973 )
October 12 –
Katherine Corri Harris , socialite and actress, first wife of
John Barrymore (died
1927 )
October 13 –
Conrad Richter , fiction writer (died
1968 )
October 14 –
Dwight D. Eisenhower , 34th
president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (died
1969 )
October 20 –
Sherman Minton , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1935 to 1941, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1956 (died 1965)
October 25 –
Floyd Bennett , aviator and explorer (died
1928 )
December 21 –
Hermann Joseph Muller , geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946 (died 1967)
December 25 –
Robert Ripley , collector of odd facts (died 1949)
December 26 –
Uncle Charlie Osborne , Appalachian fiddler (died
1992 )
Deaths
January 2 –
George Henry Boker , poet and playwright (born
1823 )
January 28 –
Prudence Crandall , educationist (born
1803 )
February 22 –
John Jacob Astor III , businessman (born
1822 )
March 2 –
James E. English , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1875 to 1876 (born
1812 )
March 19 –
John S. Hager , U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1875 (born
1818 )
April 1 –
David Wilber , politician (born
1820 )
April 19 –
James Pollock , politician (born
1810 )
April 30 –
Marcus Thrane , author, journalist, and the leader of the first labour movement in Norway (born
1817 )
May 3 –
James B. Beck , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (born
1822 in Scotland )
May 15 –
Edward Doane , Protestant missionary in Micronesia (born 1820)
June 11
June 30 –
Samuel Parkman Tuckerman , composer (born
1819 )
July 9 –
Clinton B. Fisk , philanthropist and temperance activist (born
1828 )
July 10 –
Thomas C. McCreery , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1868 to 1871 (born
1816 )
July 13 –
John C. Frémont , soldier, explorer and U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1851 (born
1813 )
August 6 –
William Kemmler , murderer, first person executed in the
electric chair (born
1860 )
August 10 –
John Boyle O'Reilly , poet, novelist, journalist and transportee (born
1844 in Ireland )
September 8 –
Isaac P. Christiancy , Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1875 to 1879 (born 1812)
September 30 –
Frederick H. Billings , lawyer and financier (born 1823)
October 7 –
John Hill Hewitt , songwriter (born
1801 )
October 8 –
James W. Deaderick , Chief Justice of the
Tennessee Supreme Court from 1876 to 1886 (born
1812 )
October 20 –
Alfred B. Mullett , architect (born
1834 )
November 7 –
Comanche , horse, survivor of
Custer 's cavalry at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn
December 15 –
Sitting Bull , Native American chief (born c.
1831 )
Ann Leah Underhill, one of the
Fox sisters , fraudulent medium (born
1814 )
See also
References
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