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April 15 – A. Philip Randolph, African American labor union leader (died 1979) April 18 – Harold Saxton Burr, scientist (died 1973) April 21 A. J. Balaban, Russian-American businessman, co-founded Balaban and Katz (died 1962) Walter Costello, gangster (died 1917) S. W. Harrington, American football player, coach, and physician (died 1975)
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 ...
Rarely, events significant to the history of the West but which occurred within the modern boundaries of Canada and Mexico are included as well. Western North America was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Native Americans and later served as a frontier to the Spanish Empire, which began colonizing the region starting in the 16th century.
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 ...
1890s: Bike boom sweeps Europe and America. The Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota was the last battle in the American Indian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West. Italy annexes Eritrea. First use of the electric chair as a method for execution. Death of Vincent van Gogh. The cardboard box is invented.
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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).
1889 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) 1889 disestablishments in the United States (12 C, 8 P) 1889 establishments in the United States (53 C, 22 P)