1890 in the United States

1890 in the United States
Decades:	1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s
Years:	1887 1888 1889 – 1890 – 1891 1892 1893
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Events from the year 1890 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
• Vice President: Levi P. Morton (Republican)
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine)
• Congress: 51st

Events

January–June

• January 1 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Mackinaw burned 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 – 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 31 – The 5-story skylight Arcade opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
• June 12 – In 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

December 29: Wounded Knee Massacre

• July 2 – The Sherman Antitrust Act becomes United States law.
• July 3 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. State.
• July 10 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. State.
• 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.
• September 25 – Sequoia National Park created.
• October 1 – Yosemite National Park created.
• October 11 – In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.^[3]
• October 13 – The Delta Chi Fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
• October 13 – In Michigan, the schooner J.F. Warner is lost at Thunder Bay.^[1]
• 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 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

• Herman Hollerith devises a method using punched cards (like Jacquard's loom) to tabulate census data by machine. (See also History of computing hardware.) The United States Census Bureau begins using Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
• The United States city of Boise, Idaho drills the first geothermal well.
• The corrugated cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair, a Brooklyn printer who developed production of paper-board boxes in 1879.
• Brown trout is introduced into the upper Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park.
• High School Cadets is written by John Philip Sousa.

Ongoing

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)

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References

External links

• Media related to 1890 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons