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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)
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). In the British Empire, the 1890s epitomised the late ...
But as José Martí showed, Ariel and Caliban came together and talked to each other in 1889-1890. They greatly increased their knowledge of each other in the six months of the First International American Conference. In the process they discovered that despite their differences, they shared a fundamental reality: our America. [citation needed]
In United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
Trump describes America in the 1890s as 'the wealthiest it ever was.' In fact, it was a decade of Depression, and a dark age for the Republican Party ... as the nearby Indigenous population called ...
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.
He held aces and eights, now known as the Dead man's hand. 1876 – U.S. presidential election, 1876 seemingly elects Samuel J. Tilden president and Thomas A. Hendricks vice president, but results are disputed with 20 Electoral College votes allegedly in doubt.
The concept of automated data processing had been born. In 1890, Herman Hollerith invented the mechanical tabulating machine, a design used during the 1890 Census which stored and processed demographic and statistical information on punched cards. [14] [15] 1890 Shredded wheat. Shredded wheat is a type of breakfast cereal made from whole wheat.