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1900 Fly swatter. A fly swatter is a hand-held device for swatting and killing flies and other insects. The first modern fly-destruction device was invented in 1900 by Robert R. Montgomery, an entrepreneur based in Decatur, Illinois. [75] On January 9, 1900, Montgomery was issued U.S. patent #640,790 for the "Fly-Killer". [76] 1900 Thumbtack
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.
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 ...
1890 – Sherman Antitrust Act; 1890 – Jacob Riis published "How the Other Half Lives" 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
December 6 – Jefferson Davis, only president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1851 and from 1857 to 1861 (born 1808) See also [ edit ]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The 1900s (pronounced "nineteen-hundreds") was a decade that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time. The term "nineteen-hundreds" is sometimes also used to mean the entire century from January 1, 1900, to December 31, 1999 (the years beginning with "19").
1890 (United States) United Mine Workers of America founded. [20] 1890 (United States) United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Strike occurred; the union demanded an eight-hour work day. [20] 25 July 1890 (United States) New York garment workers won the right to unionize after a seven-month strike.