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1889 – North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington become states; 1889 – Johnstown Flood in Pennsylvania; 1889 – Jane Addams founds Hull House; December 6, 1889 – Former Confederate president Jefferson Davis dies. 1889 - During a speech given by Benjamin Harrison, he becomes the first U.S. president in history to have a voice ...
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.
1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1889th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 889th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1880s decade. As of ...
The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899.. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "gay nineties" ("gay" meaning carefree or cheerful).
American National Red Cross headquartered in city. [23] July 2: Assassination of James A. Garfield; he would die two months of complications in Elberon, New Jersey [27] 1885 – Washington Monument dedicated. [13] 1888 – Electric streetcar begins operating. [7] 1889 – National Zoo opens. [7] 1890 Rock Creek Park established. [7] Population ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
T. S. Eliot, American-born poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 (died 1965 in the United Kingdom) October 4 – Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (died 1961) October 7 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd vice president of the United States from 1941 to 1945 (died 1965) October 16