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Panhard-Levassor (1890–1895). This model was the first automobile to circulate in Portugal. 1890s: Bike boom sweeps Europe and America with hundreds of bicycle manufacturers in the biggest bicycle craze to date. 1890: Clément Ader of Muret, France creates his Ader Éole. "Ader claimed that while he was aboard the Ader Eole he made a steam ...
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 George Edward Brett, publisher (born 1829) Hugh Buchanan, politician from Georgia (born 1823) June 30 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (born 1819)
Herman Hollerith invents the first electric counting machine for the 1890 census. Samuel Marinus Zwemer co-founds the American Arabian Mission. [4] Schools founded include: Plattsburgh Normal School (Plattsburgh, New York) Riverside Elementary School (Wichita, Kansas) Battle Ground Academy Franklin, Tennessee.
Trump describes America in the 1890s as 'the wealthiest it ever was.' ... The latter was followed by a slow recovery that didn't conclude until after 1900. More than 800 banks failed from 1893 ...
1890 – Sherman Silver Purchase Act; 1890 – McKinley Tariff; 1890 – Yosemite National Park created; 1890 – Idaho and Wyoming become states; 1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre; 1890 – National American Woman Suffrage Association founded; 1890 - Reporter Nelly Bly circles globe by train and steamship in 72 days; 1891 – Baltimore crisis
July 4 – Katharine Lee Bates' lyrics for "America the Beautiful" are first published. July 6 – Van Cortlandt Golf Course opens in The Bronx as the country's first and oldest public golf course. [1] August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 begins. After a 13-day special session, the California legislature votes for Thomas R. Bard to fill the vacancy for its U.S. Senator vacant since March 1899. February 9 – Dwight F. Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
January 15 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). January 26 – Reconstruction: Virginia rejoins the Union. January 27 – The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at DePauw University.