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See also:	History of the United States (1865–1918) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860-1899) List of years in the United States

Events from the year1890 in the United States.

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

• January–June period –George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to recordphonograph cylinders, in New York.
• January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in theWhite House.^[1]
• January 22 – TheUnited Mine Workers is founded.
• January 25 – JournalistNellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• February 18 –National American Woman Suffrage Association established.^[2]
• February 24 –Chicago is selected to host theColumbian Exposition.
• March 2–7 – TheCherry Creek Campaign occurs inArizona Territory.
• March 3 – The first American football game inOhio State University history is played in Delaware, Ohio againstOhio Wesleyan University; Ohio State wins 20–14.
• March 8 –North Dakota State University is founded inFargo, North Dakota.
• March 27 – Atornado strikesLouisville, Kentucky, killing 76 people and injuring 200.
• March 28 –Washington State University is founded inPullman, Washington.
• May 2 –Oklahoma Territory is organized.
• May 31 – The 5-story skylightCleveland Arcade opens inCleveland, Ohio.
• June 1 – TheUnited States Census Bureau begins usingHerman Hollerith'stabulating machine to recordcensus returns usingpunched card input, a landmark in thehistory of computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomesIBM.
• June 12 – OnLake Huron (Michigan), the wooden steamerRyan is lost nearThunder Bay Island.^[3]
• June 20 –The Picture of Dorian Gray byOscar Wilde published byPhiladelphia-basedLippincott's Monthly Magazine.

• July 2 – TheSherman Antitrust Act becomes U.S. law.
• July 3 –Idaho is admitted as the 43rdU.S. state (seeHistory of Idaho).
• July 10 –Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state (seeHistory of Wyoming).
• August 4 –Thomas G. Jones iselected the 28thgovernor of Alabama defeatingBenjamin M. Long.
• August 6 – AtAuburn Prison inNew York,William Kemmler becomes the first person to beexecuted in theelectric chair.
• September 19 – TheUniversity of North Texas is founded, as the Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute.
• September 24 –The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints PresidentWilford Woodruff issues the "1890 Manifesto" officially advising against any futurepolygamy in the Church.
• September 25 –Sequoia National Park created.
• October 1 –Yosemite National Park created.
• October 11 – InWashington, D.C., theDaughters of the American Revolution is founded.^[4]
• October 13
  • TheDelta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students atCornell University inIthaca, New York.
  • OnLake Huron, theschoonerJ. F. Warner is lost inThunder Bay (Michigan).^[3]
• November 29 – InWest Point, New York, theUnited States Navy defeats theUnited States Army 24–0 in the firstArmy–Navy football game.
• December 1 –Thomas G. Jones is sworn in as the 28thgovernor of Alabama replacingThomas Seay.^[5]
• December 24 – The Oklahoma territorial legislature establishes three institutions of higher learningUniversity of Oklahoma,Oklahoma State University, andUniversity of Central Oklahoma.
• December 24 –Woman's Canning and Preserving Company was established byAmanda Jones, inChicago, Illinois.^[6]
• December 29 –Wounded Knee Massacre: NearWounded Knee Creek,South Dakota theU.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disarm aNative American camp and shooting starts. 153Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene.

• The United States city ofBoise, Idaho drills the firstgeothermal well.
• Thecorrugated cardboard box is invented byRobert Gair, aBrooklyn printer who developed production of paper-board boxes in 1879.
• TheDemarest Building, a commercial building onFifth Avenue inNew York City, is completed as the first with an electricelevator (installed byOtis).
• The march "High School Cadets" is written byJohn Philip Sousa.
• Brown trout are introduced into the upperFirehole River inYellowstone National Park.
• The Ohio Northern University Marching Band is founded as a part of the military department. Becoming known as the “Star of Northwest Ohio”, they will perform regularly each football season and travel across the world through their sponsoring university.^[7]

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

• September 30 – TheBrooklyn Bridegrooms clinch theNational League pennant.

• January 4 –Victor Adamson, Western film director, producer, screenwriter and actor (died1972)
• January 21 –Wesley Englehorn, American football player (died1993)
• January 22 –Fred M. Vinson, 13thChief Justice of the Supreme Court (died1953)
• January 28 –Robert Franklin Stroud, "Birdman of Alcatraz" (died1963)
• February 18
  • Edward Arnold, actor (died1956)
  • Adolphe Menjou, film actor (died 1963)
• February 24 –Marjorie Main, character actress (died1975)
• February 27
  • Freddie Keppard, jazz cornet player (died1933)
  • Art Smith, pilot (died in aviation accident1926)
• March 11 –Vannevar Bush, science administrator (died1974)
• March 21 –C. Douglass Buck, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1943 to 1949 (died1965)
• March 28 –Paul Whiteman, bandleader (died1967)
• April 7
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas, conservationist and writer (died1998)
  • Harry W. Hill, admiral (died1971)
• April 13 –Frank Murphy, politician andAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died1949)
• April 23 –Adelbert Ford, psychologist (died 1976)^[8]
• May 1 –Laurence Wild, basketball player and 30thGovernor of American Samoa (died 1971)
• May 11 –Woodall Rodgers, lawyer and politician,Mayor of Dallas (died1961)
• May 15 –Katherine Anne Porter, author (died1980)
• June 1 –Frank Morgan, character actor (died 1949)
• June 12 –Junius Matthews, actor (died1978)
• June 26
  • Oscar C. Badger II, admiral (died1958)
  • Jeanne Eagels, actress (died1929)
• June 28 –William H. P. Blandy, admiral (d.1954)
• June 30 –Gertrude McCoy, actress (d.1967)
• July 22 –Rose Kennedy, philanthropist and matriarch of theKennedy family (died1995)
• July 26 –Daniel J. Callaghan, admiral (killed in action1942)
• August 11 –Lillian Holley, sheriff (d.1994)
• August 20 –H. P. Lovecraft, horror fiction author (died1937)
• September 9 –Colonel Sanders, founder ofKentucky Fried Chicken (died1980)
• September 20 –Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader (died1941)
• September 24 –Allen J. Ellender, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1937 to 1972 (died 1972)
• October 1
  • Alice Joyce, silent film actress (died1955)
  • Blanche Oelrichs, poet, second wife of John Barrymore (died1950)
• October 2 –Groucho Marx, comedian (died1977)
• October 8 –Eddie Rickenbacker, race car driver and World War I fighter pilot (died1973)
• October 12 –Katherine Corri Harris, socialite and actress, first wife ofJohn Barrymore (died1927)
• October 13 –Conrad Richter, fiction writer (died1968)
• October 14 –Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34thpresident of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (died1969)
• 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 (died1928)
• December 21 –Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, recipient of theNobel 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 (died1992)

• January 2 –George Henry Boker, poet and playwright (born1823)
• January 28 –Prudence Crandall, educationist (born1803)
• February 22 –John Jacob Astor III, businessman (born1822)
• March 2 –James E. English, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1875 to 1876 (born1812)
• March 19 –John S. Hager, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1875 (born1818)
• April 1 –David Wilber, politician (born1820)
• April 19 –James Pollock, politician (born1810)
• April 30 –Marcus Thrane, author, journalist, and the leader of the first labour movement in Norway (born1817)
• May 3 –James B. Beck, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1877 to 1890 (born1822 in Scotland)
• May 15 –Edward Doane, Protestant missionary in Micronesia (born 1820)
• June 11
  • George Edward Brett, publisher (born1829)
  • Hugh Buchanan, politician from Georgia (born1823)
• June 30 –Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (born1819)
• July 9 –Clinton B. Fisk, philanthropist and temperance activist (born1828)
• July 10 –Thomas C. McCreery, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1868 to 1871 (born1816)
• July 13 –John C. Frémont, soldier, explorer and U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1851 (born1813)
• August 6 –William Kemmler, murderer, first person executed in theelectric chair (born1860)
• August 10 –John Boyle O'Reilly, poet, novelist, journalist and transportee (born1844 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 (born1801)
• October 8 –James W. Deaderick, Chief Justice of theTennessee Supreme Court from 1876 to 1886 (born1812)
• October 20 –Alfred B. Mullett, architect (born1834)
• November 7 –Comanche, horse, survivor ofCuster's cavalry at theBattle of the Little Bighorn
• December 15 –Sitting Bull, Native American chief (born c.1831)
• Ann Leah Underhill, one of theFox sisters, fraudulent medium (born1814)

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