1890
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1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
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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.
- 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
- 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 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 to 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.
- 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 (see Wounded Knee Massacre).
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Unknown dates
- 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.
- The bustle goes out of fashion.
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Births
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January-March
- 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 - Elise Rivet, French Roman Catholic nun and war heroine (d. 1945)
- 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 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)
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April-June
- April 6 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (d. 1939)
- 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, President of North Vietnam (d. 1969)
- May 23 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)
- 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 living person on record since May 2004
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July-September
- July 18 - Frank Forde, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1983)
- July 22 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American philantropist and matriarch of the Kennedy family
- August 5 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 1956)
- August 15 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962)
- 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 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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October-December
- October 2 - Groucho Marx, American comedian (d. 1977)
- October 14 - Dwight David Eisenhower, U.S. general and President of the United States (d. 1969)
- October 16 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
- October 16 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1976)
- October 17 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
- October 24 - Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, Portuguese supercentenarian
- November 22 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
- November 23 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
- November 24 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
- December 5 - David Bomberg, English painter (d. 1957)
- December 8 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (d. 1959)
- December 20 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
- December 26 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, Appalachian fiddler (d. 1992)
- December 30 - Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot (d. 1916)
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Unknown date
- Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (d. 1964)
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Deaths
- January 18 - King Amadeus I of Spain (b. 1845)
- February 22 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
- February 22 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
- June 30 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
- July 15 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
- July 29 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
- August 11 - John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1801)
- October 26 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
- November 3 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
- November 8 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
- November 23 - King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
- December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822)
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