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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 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
1890 1890 Revolution of the Park: Argentina: Civic Union: 1890 1890 First Franco-Dahomean War: Kingdom of Porto-Novo. French Third Republic. Kingdom of Dahomey: 1890 1916 Castaic Range War: William Willoby Jenkins. Los Angeles Rangers. William C. Chormicle 1895 1900 Colorado Range War: Cattle Barons: Homesteader and Rustlers 1890 1891 Ghost ...
January–June period – George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York. January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. [1] January 22 – The United Mine Workers is founded. January 25 – Journalist Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
Trump describes America in the 1890s as 'the wealthiest it ever was.' ... The latter was followed by a slow recovery that didn't conclude until after 1900. More than 800 banks failed from 1893 ...
July 14 – John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (born 1825) August 2 – John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (born 1825) August 5 – Luke Pryor, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (born 1820) August 12 – James Edward Keeler, astronomer (born 1857)
Herman Hollerith invents the first electric counting machine for the 1890 census. Samuel Marinus Zwemer co-founds the American Arabian Mission. [4] Schools founded include: Plattsburgh Normal School (Plattsburgh, New York) Riverside Elementary School (Wichita, Kansas) Battle Ground Academy Franklin, Tennessee.
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