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Events from the year 1890 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ]
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
January–June [ edit ] 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 Oscar Wilde published by Philadelphia -based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine July–December [ edit ] 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 disasterLake 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 [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] 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 ) 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 [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
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