1890


Events

   * January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the 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
   * U.S. Census - Herman Hollerith devises method using punch cards (like
     Jacquard's loom) to tabulate the data by machine, since existing
     methods would use more than ten years. (see also History of computing).
     Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM.
   * July 3 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
   * July 10 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
   * August 6 - At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by
     electric chair is performed (murderer William Kemmler was the subject).
   * October 11 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American
     Revolution is founded.
   * December 29 - The United States Seventh Cavalry massacres over 400 men,
     women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
   * The cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair.

Births

   * January 1 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer
   * January 4 - Victor Lustig, con artist (+ 1947)
   * January 7 - Henny Porten, actress (+ 1960)
   * January 9 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist.
   * February 10 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     literature in 1958 (+ 1960)
   * February 11 - John de Vries, fairy tale writer.
   * February 14 - Nina Hamnett, artist
   * February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (+ 1963)
   * February 24 - Marjorie Main, actress (+ 1975)
   * February 25 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (+ 1986)
   * March 9 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Union politician (+ 1986)
   * March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author of As We May Think (+ 1974)
   * March 20 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor (+ 1957)
   * March 20 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer (+ 1973)
   * March 28 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader
   * April 6 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer.
   * May 10 - Alfred Jodl, German general (+ 1946)
   * May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter, author (+ 1980)
   * May 19 - Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (+ 1969)
   * May 23 - Herbert Marshall, actor (+ 1966)
   * June 16 - Arthur Stanley Jefferson , British actor later known as Stan
     Laurel.
   * August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer.
   * August 24 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer.
   * September 10 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (+ 1973)
   * September 15 - Agatha Christie, English mystery writer.
   * September 20 - Jelly Roll Morton. Jazz pianist, composer, bandleader.
   * October 2 - Groucho Marx, comedian (+ 1977)
   * October 14 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th
     president of the United States
   * October 16 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (+ 1922)
   * October 16 - Paul Strand, American photographer.
   * November 22 - Charles de Gaulle, French president.
   * December 5 - David Bomberg, painter
   * December 8 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer

Deaths

   * July 29 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
   * October 26 - Carlo Collodi, italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio
   * November 8 - Cˇsar Franck, composer and organist
   * December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist