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October 14 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (died 1969) 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 (died 1928)
The incident is noteworthy as the engagement in military history in which the most Medals of Honor have been awarded in the military history of the United States. This was the last tribe to be invaded which broke the backbone of the American Indian Wars and the American Frontier. [9] In 1891 the Chilean Civil War was fought from January to ...
The 1890 United States census determines the US population to be 62,979,766, an increase of 25.5 percent relative to the 1880 census. June 16 – Royal Dutch Petroleum, predecessor of Royal Dutch Shell, the major worldwide energy production and sales company, is founded in the Netherlands to develop an oilfield in Pangkalan Brandan, North ...
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
A Hollerith tabulator that has been modified for the first 1890 census tabulation; the punched-card reader was removed, replaced by a simple keyboard. [2]: 61 The 1890 census was the first to be compiled using methods invented by Herman Hollerith and was overseen by Superintendents Robert P. Porter (1889–1893) and Carroll D. Wright (1893–1897).
The Tariff Act of 1890, commonly called the McKinley Tariff, was an act of the United States Congress, framed by then Representative William McKinley, that became law on October 1, 1890. [1] The tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost 50%, an increase designed to protect domestic industries and workers from foreign competition, as ...
Donald Trump, getting history and economics very wrong. Indeed, he seems to know one thing about the 1890s in America: That it was a period of high tariffs.
The Indian Removal Act is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, authorizing the U.S. government to negotiate the removal of Native American tribes of the southeastern United States to federal territory in what is now Oklahoma. 1831: Mexico ratifies the boundaries with the United States originally established by the Adams–Onís Treaty ...