Timeline 1887-1890
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1887 Jan 11, At
Fort Smith, Ark., hang man deluxe George Maledon dispatched four more
victims in a multiple hanging.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1887 Jan 20, The U.S. Senate
approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
[see Nov 29]
(AP, 1/20/98)
1887 Feb 2, People began gathering
at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., to witness the groundhog's
search for its shadow.
(WSJ, 2/2/99, p.B1)
1887 Feb 3, Congress created the
Electoral Count Act to avoid disputed natl. elections.
(MC, 2/3/02)
1887 Feb 5, Verdi’s opera
"Otello," based on the play by Shakespeare, premiered at La Scala.
(AP, 2/5/97)(WSJ, 8/1/01, p.A12)
1887 Feb 8, US Senator Henry
Dawes sponsored the Dawes Severalty Act that authorized the survey of
Indian territories in the West, in order that the commonly held tribal
lands might be broken up into property allotments of 40 to 160 acres.
The Dawes Act gave citizenship to Indians living apart from their
tribe. Section Six stated that upon completion of a Land Patent
process, the allotment holder will become a United States citizen and
"be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such
citizens." Native Americans in general did not become citizens until
the Snyder Act of 1924.
(NG, 5/95, p.91)(HN, 2/7/97)(AP, 6/2/97)
1887 Feb 8, The Allotment Act
(Dawes Act) tried to break up tribal land ownership and awarded
individual allotments. Trust accounts were established for both Indian
tribes and individual American Indians. The lands were then held in
trust, managed by the government and leased out to gas, oil and timber
companies. The status of the accounts brought to question in 1996 when
the Bureau of Indian Affairs could not account for about 15% of an
estimated $450 million held for some 300,000 Indians. In 1999 a federal
judge cited Sec. Bruce Babbitt and Robert Rubin in contempt for
official deceit in accounting for the trusts that involved some 500,000
Indians.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFC, 2/23/99, p.A1)(WSJ,
5/3/99, p.A24)
1887 Feb 8, Luke Short, owner of
the classy Fort Worth White Elephant saloon, engaged in a gunfight with
Longhair Jim Courtright, gunfighter extraordinaire. Short won.
(HT, 4/97, p.51)
1887 Feb 8, Aurora Ski Club of Red
Wing, Minn., became the 1st US ski club.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1887 Feb 11, Ernst "Putzi"
Hanfstangl, German politician and confidante of Hitler, NSDAP &
American school chum of Roosevelt ), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1887 Feb 13, Alvin York, famed US
soldier with 25 kills in WW I, was born.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1887 Feb 15, Alexander Borodin
(b.1833), Russian composer, died. He had worked on his epic opera
"Prince Igor" for 18 years. It was completed in 1888 by Glazunov and
Rimsky-Korsakov. [see Feb 27]
(WSJ, 9/19/96, p.A18)(WSJ, 5/7/98, p.A21)(WSJ,
2/6/00, p.A16)(MC, 2/15/02)
1887 Feb 18, Nikos Kazantzakis,
Greek writer, was born. [see Dec 2, 1885]
(MC, 2/18/02)
1887 Feb 19, The 49th US Congress
passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act. It abolished women's suffrage, forced
wives to testify against their husbands, disincorporated the LDS
Church, dismantled the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, abolished the
Nauvoo Legion, and provided that LDS Church property in excess of
$50,000 would be forfeited to the United States.
(http://somemormonstuff.blogspot.com/2007/02/edmunds-tucker-act-chap.html)
1887 Feb 21, The 1st US
bacteriology laboratory opened in Brooklyn.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1887 Feb 24, Mary Ellen Chase
(d.1973), New England writer, was born. "Suffering without
understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have
at least the grain of an idea what it’s all for."
(AP, 6/23/97)(HN, 2/24/01)
1887 Feb 26, Sir Benegal Narsing
Rau, president of UN Security Council (1950), was born in India.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1887 Feb 27, Alexander
Porfiryevich Borodin (53), Russian physician, composer (Prince Igor),
died. [see Feb 15]
(MC, 2/27/02)
1887 Mar 2, The American Trotting
Association was organized in Detroit, Mi., on this day.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1887 Mar 3, Anne Mansfield
Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller
to become the teacher of Helen, their blind and deaf 6-year-old
daughter.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1887 Mar 3, The anti-Catholic
American Protective Association formed in Clinton, IA.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1887 Mar 4, William Randolph
Hearst (23) became "Proprietor" of the SF Examiner newspaper.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1887 Mar 5, Heitor Villa-Lobos,
composer, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(HN, 3/5/01)(MC, 3/5/02)
1887 Mar 7, Helen Parkhurst,
educator, was born. She developed a technique later known as the Dalton
Plan.
(HN, 3/7/01)
1887 Mar 8, Everett Horton of
Connecticut patented a fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1887 Mar 8, Henry Ward Beecher
(b.1813), American clergyman and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
died. His books included the “Summer in the Soul” (1858), “Life of
Jesus Christ” (1871), Yale Lectures on Preaching (1872) and Evolution
and Religion (1885). In 2006 Debby Applegate authored “The Most
Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. ”
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASbeecher.htm)(SSFC, 7/2/06, p.M3)
1887 Mar 13, Chester Greenwood of
Maine patented earmuffs.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1887 Mar 22, Chico Marx, [Leonard
Martin], comedian (Marx Brothers), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1887 Mar 23, Juan Gris, cubist
painter (Still Life Before an Open Window), was born in Spain.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1887 Mar 23, Felix Felixovitch
Yussupov (Youssoupoff), Russian prince, murderer of Rasputin, was born.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1887 Mar 24, Ivan Kramskoy
(b.1837), Russian portrait painter, died.
(www.asopa.com/publications/2002december/kramskoy.htm)
1887 Apr 4, Susanna Medora Salter
became the first woman elected mayor of an American community—Argonia,
Kan.
(AP, 4/4/97)
1887 Apr 5, In Tuscumbia, Ala.,
teacher Anne Sullivan taught her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller,
the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1887 Apr 5, British historian Lord
Acton wrote, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts
absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
(AP, 5/5/08)
1887 Apr 10, President Abraham
Lincoln was re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Il.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1887 Apr 14, Start of Sherlock
Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires."
(MC, 4/14/02)
1887 Apr 26, Huntsville Electric
Co. was formed to sell electricity.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1887 Apr 28, Carl Ferdinand Pohl
(67), composer, died.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1887 May 2, Hannibal W. Goodwin
patented celluloid photographic film.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1887 May 2, The remains of
composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), were transferred from Paris to
Santa Croce, Florence.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1887 May 8, Alexander Ulyanov,
brother of Lenin, was hanged for assassination of tsar.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1887 May 18, Emmanuel Chabrier’s
opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis" premiered in Paris, France.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1887 May 23, The 1st
transcontinental train arrived in Vancouver, BC.
(MC, 5/23/02)
1887 May 25, Gas lamp at Paris
Opera caught fire and 200 died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1887 Jun 7, Monotype type-casting
machine was patented by Tolbert Lanston in Wash., DC.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1887 Jun 20, Kurt Schwitters
(d.1948), German artist, was born. He spent a year and a half in an
internment camp on the Isle of Man during WW II where he managed to
create some 200 works of art from salvaged scraps.
(WSJ, 8/19/97, p.A17)(HN, 6/20/01)
1887 Jun 21, Britain celebrated
the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1887 Jun 22, Sir Julian Huxley was
born in London. He became a biologist and philosopher and served as
Darwin’s Bulldog.
(YarraNet, 6/22/00)
1887 Jun 25, George Abbott,
American playwright, director and producer, was born. His plays
included "Three Men on a Horse" and "Damn Yankees."
(AP, 2/2/99)(HN, 6/25/99)
1887 Jul 7, Marc Chagall (d.1985),
French painter and designer, was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, Russia, as
Moishe Shagal. He left there in 1907 to attend art school in St.
Petersburg. He was sent to Paris by a benefactor and befriended Chaim
Soutine and Alexander Archipenko and stayed until 1914. "From late
cubism he adopted a manner of making forms and space interpenetrate."
His work included "Les Amoureux" (The Lovers - 1916), a portrait of
himself and his wife. In 1996 it sold for $4.2 mil. In 1997 Mikhail
Guerman published "Marc Chagall: The Land of My Heart - Russia."
(SFC,7/2/96,p.E3)(WSJ,10/8/96,p.A20)(SFEC,12/797,Par
p.6)(HN, 7/7/01)
1887 Jul 9, Samuel Eliot Morison
(d.1976), American biographer and historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea),
was born. "If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the
Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile."
(AP, 7/4/97)(HN, 7/9/01)(MC, 7/9/02)
1887 Jul 16, "Shoeless" Joe
Jackson, black sox player (Say it ain’t so, Joe), was born.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1887 Jul 18, Vidkum Quisling,
Norwegian minister of Defense, premier (1942-45), was born. He was
considered a traitor to his country for allowing an easy takeover by
Nazi Germany.
(HN, 7/18/98)(MC, 7/18/02)
1887 Jul 22, Gustav Hertz, German
physicist, was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1887 Jul 28, Marcel Duchamp
(d.1968), French artist, was born. He is known best for "Nude
Descending a Staircase," (1912) featured in the 1913 Armory Show in New
York. Arturo Schwarz published his complete works in 1969 with a new
edition in 1997. In 1996 Calvin Tompkins wrote "Duchamp: A Biography."
(V.D.-H.K.p.361)(WSJ, 12/18/96, p.A18)(HN, 7/28/01)
1887 Jul 29, Sigmund Romberg,
composer, was born.
(HN, 7/29/01)
1887 Aug 2, Rowell Hodge patented
barbed wire.
(MC, 8/2/02)
1887 Aug 3, Rupert Brooke
(d.1915), English poet who mainly wrote about World War I, was born:
"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
(AP, 2/20/98)(HN, 8/3/98)
1887 Aug 10, A train from Peoria,
Ill., bound for Niagara ran across a burning bridge near Chatsworth.
Only the lead locomotive made it and 82 people were killed near
Chatsworth.
(THC, 12/2/97)
1887 Aug 12, Erwin Schrodinger,
physicist, was born in Austria.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1887 Aug 15, Edna Ferber (d.1968),
American novelist, short-story writer and playwright (American Beauty,
Cimarron), was born. The "Ice Palace" is a 1950s Ferber novel inspired
by the Northward Building in Fairbanks, Alaska. "There are only two
kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind’s wheat and
the other kind’s emeralds."
(WUD, 1994, p.523)(AP, 3/14/98)(MC, 8/15/02)
1887 Aug 17, Marcus [Garvey] Garvy
(d.1940), Black Nationalist and Jamaican leader who promoted the
departure of African-Americans back Africa, was born. In 1914, after
two years of study in London, Garvey formed the Universal Negro
Improvement and Conservation Association (U.N.I.A.) in Jamaica, a group
that worked for black emigration to Africa and promoted racial pride,
education and black business activity. In 1916 Garvey went to New York
and began organizing U.N.I.A. branches in America from 1916-1925. At
his height of popularity, Garvey had several million followers. He
advocated racial separation and emigration of American Negroes to
Africa. He was deported in 1925. The organization waned in the 1920s
with Garvey’s arrest and conviction and imprisonment on mail fraud
charges. He was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement
Association. He also founded the Black Star Line, a steamship company
owned and operated by blacks to link black communities around the
world. Marcus Garvey died in London on June 10, 1940.
(AHD, p.544)(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p.
36)(WSJ, 2/7/96, p.A-12)(HN, 8/17/98)(HNQ, 6/18/99)
1887 Aug 21, Mighty (Dan) Casey
Struck-out in a game with the NY Giants.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1887 Aug 31, Inventor Thomas A.
Edison received a patent for his Kinetoscope," a device which produced
moving pictures. [see Apr 14, 1894]
(AP, 8/31/97)
1887 Sep 5, A gas lamp at Theater
Royal in Exeter started a fire killing about 200.
(MC, 9/5/01)
1887 Sep 7, Dame Edith Sitwell
(d.1964), English poet, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell)
1887 Sep 9, Alfred M. Landon,
Republican governor of Kansas who carried only two states in his
overwhelming defeat for the presidency by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936,
was born. He ran as a presidential candidate in 1932 and 1936.
(HN, 9/9/98)(MC, 9/9/01)
1887 Sep 14, Karl Taylor Compton,
physicist and atomic bomb scientist, was born in Wooster, Ohio.
(www.britannica.com)
1887 Sep 16, Nadia Boulanger
(d.1979), conductor, was born in Paris, France. She became the 1st
woman to conduct Boston Symphony (1939).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Boulanger)(www.glbtq.com/arts/boulanger_n.html)
1887 Sep 26, Barnes Wallis,
British aeronautical engineer, was born. He invented the "Bouncing
Bombs" that destroyed German dams during World War II.
(HN, 9/26/99)
1887 Oct 4, The first issue of the
International Herald Tribune was published as the Paris Herald Tribune.
(AP, 10/4/99)
1887 Oct 6, Charles-Edouard
Jeanneret (d.1965), aka Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and
city planner, was born. He became known for trenchantly stated
principles, such as "a house is a machine for living in" and "a curved
street is a donkey track, a straight street, a road for men."
(HN, 10/6/00)(V.D.-H.K.p.363)
1887 Oct 6, Maria Jeritza,
[Jedlicka], singer (Vienna Opera, Met Opera), was born in Austria.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1887 Oct 11, Willie Hoppe,
billiards champion, was born.
(HN, 10/11/00)
1887 Oct 11, A. Miles patented the
elevator.
(MC, 10/11/01)
1887 Oct 22, John Reed, American
journalist, poet and revolutionary who witnessed the Russian Revolution
of 1917 and wrote about it in "Ten Days That Shook the World," was
born.
(HN, 10/22/98)
1887 Oct 31, Chiang Kai-shek,
Chinese Nationalist, was born.
(HN, 10/31/98)
1887 Oct 31, Rimsky-Korsakov's
"Capricio Espagnol," premiered in St Petersburg.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1887 Nov 2, Jenny Lind
(b.1820), known as the Swedish Nightingale, soprano, died in London,
England.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind)
1887 Nov 4, Alfred Loomis
(d.1975), financier and amateur physicist, was born. In 2002 Jennet
Conant authored "Tuxedo Park," an account of how Loomis led research
that enhanced radar and led to the atom bomb.
(NAS-BM, V.51, 1980)
1887 Nov 5, Oscar Bossaert,
chocolate manufacturer, was born in Belgium.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1887 Nov 5, Paul Wittgenstein,
left hand specialist pianist, was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1887 Nov 6, Walter Johnson,
baseball pitcher, "The Big Train," was born.
(HN, 11/6/00)
1887 Nov 8, Emile Berliner, a
German immigrant working in Washington D.C., patented his gramophone, a
successful system of sound recording. Berliner was the first inventor
to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks or
records.
(http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gramophone.htm)
1887 Nov 8, Doc Holliday, who
fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K.
Corral sixty years earlier, died of tuberculosis after waking from a 57
day delirium in Glenwood Springs, Colo. He downed a glass of whiskey
and said: "I’ll be damned!" and died. In 2001 Bruce Olds authored the
novel "Bucking the Tiger," based on the life of Holliday.
(HN, 11/6/98)(MesWP)(SFC, 7/29/00, p.E3)(SSFC,
9/9/01, DB p.70)
1887 Nov 10, Arnold Zweig, German
antifascist and author (Erziehung vor Verdun), was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1887 Nov 11, Albert Parsons,
August Spies, Adolph Fisher and George Engel were hanged for their
participation in the May 4, 1886, Chicago Haymarket riot. As the noose
was placed around his neck, Spies shouted out: "There will be a time
when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle
today."
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAspies.htm)
1887 Nov 14, Bernhard Paumgartner,
musicologist, conductor, composer, was born in Austria.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1887 Nov 15, Marianne Moore, poet
(Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems), was born in St. Louis.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1887 Nov 15, Georgia O’Keeffe
(d.1986), American painter, was born in Wisconsin. An introduction to
her work was published in 1997 ed. by Peter H. Hassrick: "The Georgia
O’Keeffe Museum."
(WUD, 1994, p.1002)(HFA, ‘96, p.42)(SFC, 7/16/97,
p.E3)(SFEC, 9/7/97, BR p.9)
1887 Nov 16, Philip Frohman, US
architect, was born.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1887 Nov 17, Bernard Law
Montgomery, British Field Marshall who defeated Rommel in North Africa
and lead allied troops from D-day to the end of World War II, was born.
(HN, 11/17/98)
1887 Nov 19, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective."
(MC, 11/19/01)
1887 Nov 19, Emma Lazarus (38), US
poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), died in NY.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1887 Nov 23, Boris Karloff
(d.1969), English actor most famous for his role as the monster in the
movie Frankenstein, was born in Dulwich, England.
(HN, 11/23/98)(MC, 11/23/01)
1887 Nov 24, Victorien Sardou's
"La Tosca," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1887 Nov 27, U.S. Deputy Marshall
Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, was killed in the
line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
(HN, 11/27/98)
1887 Nov 28, Ernst Roehm, early
Nazi and German staff member, later Bolivian leader, was born.
(MC, 11/28/01)
1887 Nov 29, US received rights to
Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii. [see Jan 20]
(MC, 11/29/01)
1887 Dec 1, Sherlock Holmes 1st
appeared in print: "Study in Scarlet." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first
story about the detective he named Sherlock Holmes was published in
Beeton’s Christmas Annual. It wasn’t until a London magazine called the
Strand began publishing Doyle’s shorter Holmes adventures in 1891
that the detective became a phenomenon. Today hundreds of books,
articles and movies have been devoted to the great detective and his
biographer, Dr. John Watson, at 221b Baker Street, London.
(HNQ, 4/7/01)(ON, 3/06, p.11)
1887 Dec 13, Corporal Alvin C.
York of Wolf River Valley, Tennessee, was born. York was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross for
heroism during World War I Argonne Offensive. York was a reluctant
soldier, but his frontier upbringing had made him an outstanding
marksman. [see Oct 8, 1918]
(HN, 12/13/98)
1887 Dec 27, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle."
(MC, 12/27/01)
1887 Robinson Jeffers (d.1962),
poet, was born.
(SFC, 4/22/01, BR p.1)
1887 Swami Sivananda (d.1963) was
born as Kuppuswami in India. He became a doctor but opted for a
spiritual path with 6 commands: Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate,
Realize.”
(SSFC, 10/3/04,
p.D5)(www.yogamag.net/yogas/inspY.shtml)
1887 Paul Gauguin painted "Still
Life With Carafe and Lemons."
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.B1)
1887 Van Gogh painted "The
Courtesan." It was inspired by an 1820 work by the Japanese artist
Keisai Eisen who pictured an intricately coifed woman that later
appeared on the cover of a French magazine
(SFC, 11/16/98, p.E3)(WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)
1887 Claude Monet painted "The
Seine With the Pont de la Grande Jatte."
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.B2)
1887 Camille Pissaro painted
"Boulevard de Clichy."
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.B1)
1887 Odilon Redon (1840-1916),
French painter and etcher, made his "Spider" lithograph.
(WUD, 1994, p.1203)(SFEM, 6/29/97, p.4)
1887 Chekhov’s first completed
play, "Ivanov," was a technical and critical disaster. A revised
version faired better in 1889.
(WSJ, 11/21/97, p.A20)
1887 August Strindberg, Swedish
playwright, wrote "The Father."
(WSJ, 1/17/96, p.A-16)
1887 The bible of eclipses is the
"Canon der Finsternisse," published by the Austrian astronomer Theodor
Ritter von Oppolzer. It tracked all the eclipses from 1207 BC to 2162
AD.
(SCTS, p.27)
1887 Edward Bellamy authored the
utopian novel "Looking Backward, 2000-1887," which forecast what
America might look like if people worked together for the common good.
(WSJ, 12/10/99, p.W17)
1887 H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925),
English author and poet, wrote his novel "She."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard)
1887 UC Berkeley Prof. Edward J.
Wickson published a colorful volume that advertised and promoted the
quality of life and agricultural opportunities in California.
(SFC, 5/26/96, SFEM p.4)
1887 Elizabeth Cochrane,
journalist, faked insanity to investigate insane asylums and was
admitted to Bellevue. She wrote under the pen name of Nellie Bly and
was summarily diagnosed as "positively demented… a hopeless case."
(SFEC, 2/13/00, BR p.8)
1887 Henry Lee published "The
Vegetable Lamb of Tartary - a curious fable of the cotton plant."
(Econ, 12/20/03, p.44)
1887 In Washington DC Gen.
Montgomery C. Meigs, architect, oversaw the completion of his Pension
Building. The Pension Bureau oversaw the benefits of the nation’s
ex-soldiers.
(AH, 10/01, HT p.28)
1887 The Grand Hotel was built on
Michigan’s Mackinac Island. Its front porch was 880 feet long. The 1980
film "Somewhere in Time," starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour,
was filmed at here.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.E3)(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.C1)
1887 Cardinal Gibbons and the
American hierarchy convinced Rome to back off of a papal condemnation
of the Knights of Labor.
(WSJ, 8/31/01, p.W17)
1887 Ford City, Pa., was founded
by John B. Ford, head of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. on the shore of
the Allegheny River. Later some 47 acres of the factory grounds were
fenced off due to contamination from arsenic left behind by decades of
industrial glassmaking.
(WSJ, 8/12/97, p.B1)
1887 Pennsylvania House was
founded in Lewisburg, Pa., to make high-quality case furniture. In 2000
La-Z-Boy bought the company and in 2004 moved production to China.
(SFC, 6/4/08, p.G3)
1887 Louis Keller founded the
Social Register with an initial list of 5,000 people, mostly
descendants of English or Dutch settlers who had built New York City.
(WSJ, 5/7/96, p.A-16)
1887 Lord Francis Henry Hope, heir
to the Hope Diamond, married the stage singer May Hoy.
(THC, 12/3/97)
1887 The first softball game on
record was held indoors at the Farragus Boat Club in Chicago.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.E5)
1887 The US federal Interstate
Commerce Commission Act was passed. It was enacted to restrict
monopolies but did not have much power of enforcement. It regulated
railroads and protected farmers from fees that it judged excessive.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R48)
1887 In Hawaii American
businessmen forced King Kalakaua to sign a new constitution that took
away his power to appoint legislators to the House of Nobles. Members
would hence be elected by property owners.
(ON, 11/02, p.5)
1887 In Alaska William Moore, a
former steamboat captain, homesteaded 160 acres with his son in a
settlement he called Mooresville, where the Taiya River meets the
Skagway. He anticipated a gold rush that arrived in 1897. His
settlement was overrun and became Skagway.
(SSFC, 9/18/05, p.E13)
1887 The Mansions Hotel, a
Victorian hotel in Pacific Heights was constructed. It is allegedly
haunted by a dark-haired mechante named Claudia, the shapely niece of
the original owner, Utah Senator Charles Chambers.
(SFE Mag, 5/5/96, p.A-7)
1887 The Orpheum Theater opened on
O’Farrell St.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, DB p.44)
1887 In San Francisco the 3-story
Sharon Building was built next to the children’s playground in Golden
Gate Park. It was designed by Percy & Hamilton.
(SSFC, 1/24/10, p.C2)
1887 St. Boniface Church was
founded as a parish for German Catholics.
(SFC, 11/28/98, p.A19)
1887 John McLaren, a Scottish-born
landscape gardener, was hired by William Hammond Hall as assistant park
superintendent of Golden Gate Park. Hall was a surveyor who gave the
Park its initial design under plans pushed by Governor Haight and Mayor
McCoppin.
(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide, p.4)(Ind, 10/28/00, 5A)
1887 The land at Stern Grove was
officially granted to the Greene family.
(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide, p.6)
1887 John Tadich acquired the New
World Market Coffee Stand at 221 Leidesdorff.
(SFC, 6/19/96, zz1, p.1)
1887 In San Francisco a stranded
schooner carrying some 40 tons of dynamite exploded near the Cliff
House.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.B3)
1887 The American Graphaphone Co.
was founded in Washington DC. They made a sound producing machine that
was peddle operated and based on work by Alexander Bell that used a
cardboard cylinder coated with a waxy material to hold sounds.
(SFC,11/19/97, Z1 p.7)
1887 Warwick China Co. was
incorporated in Wheeling, West Virginia. The company closed operations
in 1951.
(SFC, 1/4/06, p.G2)
1887 Frank Brownell, the maker of
George Eastman’s roll holder, created for Eastman a simple box camera.
Eastman named it “Kodak” and patented the name with the camera. [see
1888]
(ON, 3/05, p.12)
1887 James William Cannon founded
Cannon Mills in Concord, NC. It was bought by Fieldcrest Mills in 1986,
which in turn was bought by Pillowtex in 1997. In 2003 Pillotex went
bankrupt.
(WSJ, 8/1/03, p.B1)
1887 William D. Gates founded the
American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Co. (Gates Potteries) in Terra Cotta,
Ill. The company was sold in 1930 and renamed American Terra Cotta Co.
It closed in 1966.
(SFC, 5/9/07, p.G7)
1887 The Hearst Corporation was
founded by William Randolph Hearst with help from his father,
California Senator Hearst. The elder Hearst had amassed wealth from the
Comstock mines of Nevada.
(SFC, 4/14/99, p.A19)
1887 Hart Schaffner & Marx, a
haberdashery, was founded and became a key military supplier. It was
later renamed Hartmarx.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R40)
1887 The egg topper or egg opener
was patented. It was a scissor type tool to cut the top of the shell
from soft boiled eggs.
(SFC, 8/25/99, Z1 p.6)
1887 The inflatable bicycle tire
was invented and spawned, along with the car tire, a worldwide rubber
boom.
(SFEM, 5/7/00, p.9)
1887 A. Eugen Fick, a Swiss
physician, published the results of experiments with glass lenses that
fit over the entire eye, the first contact lenses.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R21)
1887 Albert Michelson and Edward
Morley compared the speed of light in the direction of earth’s orbit
with the speed of light at right angles to earth’s motion and found it
is the same.
(BHT, Hawking, p.20)
1887 An electric-powered car in
Richmond got its power from a four-wheeled carriage trolled along wires
overhead, hence the name trolley car.
(SFC,10/18/97, p.E4)
1887 Aloys Zötl (b.1831),
Austrian naïve artist, died. Zotl’s paintings included "The
Rhinoceros."
(WSJ, 4/9/03, p.D10)
1887 Charles Lux died. His firm,
Miller and Lux, by this time owned some 700,000 head of cattle in
Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Over 700 miles of private telegraph lines
connected their ranches.
(SSF, 1976, p.2)
1887 Geographers of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire set fixed points to measure altitude in
connection with the European measurement of meridional and parallel
degrees. One marker at Rakhiv, Ukraine, was later mis-interpreted to
mark the center of Europe.
(WSJ, 7/14/04, p.A1)
1887 In Canada a mining blast in
Nanaimo killed 148 miners.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.$27)
1887 China’s Huang Ho (Huang He,
Yellow River) flooded and killed about 900,000 people.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_toll)
1887 Spitalfields opened as a
fruit and vegetable market in London, England. It was built over the
site of a medieval hospital and construction c2000 revealed some 6,000
bodies buried 30 feet deep.
(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.T7)
1887 In France Sadi Carnot
(1837-1994) became president.
(WUD, 1994 p.225)
1887 A severe earthquake hit the
Ligurian village of Perinaldo, Italy.
(SFCM, 3/17/02, p.29)
1887 In Japan Saigo Takamori, a
samurai statesman from Kyushu, led a bloody rebellion against the
national government which he helped create.
(NG, Jan. 94, p.96)
1887 Sophus Lie (1842-1899),
Norwegian mathematician, recognized a mathematical structure called E8,
which contained 248 dimensions. It took 120 years to solve. In 2007 Dr.
Garrett Lisi proposed that this structure could be used to describe
fully the laws of physics.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophus_Lie)(Econ,
11/24/07, p.87)
1887 The artificial international
language called Esperanto was introduced in a pamphlet published by
Polish ophthalmologist Dr. Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof. Zamenhof
(1859-1917), invented the artificial language known as Esperanto in
1885. Zamenhof used the pen name "Esperanto," which means "the
hoper" in the new language. Esperanto vocabulary is comprised primarily
of words with Latin roots and words common to several languages.
Esperanto is less complicated than an earlier attempt at artificial
language called Volapuk. While Esperanto associations formed around the
world, it never became widely accepted.
(Wired, 8/96, p.84)(HNQ, 6/15/98)
1887 Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum
(1887-1979) founder of the Satmar Hassids in Satu Mare, Romania, was
born. The ultra-orthodox sect of Judaism later established itself in
NYC.
(Econ, 4/29/06,
p.37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Teitelbaum)
1887 In Russia Alexander Ulyanov,
the older brother of Lenin, was executed for a conspiracy to
assassinate Czar Alexander III.
(WSJ, 10/5/00, p.A24)
1887 In Scotland the Earl of
Lovelace built a shooting lodge that was later converted to the Loch
Torridon Hotel.
(SFEC,12/797, p.T5)
1887 The Marxist Hunchakian
Revolutionary Party, called the Hunchaks, was founded in Geneva,
Switzerland by Armenians from Russia.
(http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/Armenia/justin.html)
1887-1888 Van Gogh painted "Self-Portrait with Felt
Hat."
(WSJ, 10/30
(AP, 2/4/03)/98, p.W11)
1887-1891 German colonial administrators made
Bagamoyo, Tanzania, their capital.
(SSFC, 7/13/03, p.C9)
1887-1918 Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Portuguese
futurist artist. He moved to Paris in 1906 befriended Modigliani,
Brancusi, Gris and others. 8 of his works were exhibited at the 1913
Armory Show in New York.
(WSJ, 2/1/00, p.A24)
1887-1943 Alexander Woollcott, American author and
critic: "Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could
have if we didn't spend half our time wishing."
(AP, 2/29/00)
1887-1948 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist:
"The passionate belief in the superior worthwhileness of our
children—it is stored up in us as a great battery charged by the
accumulated instincts of uncounted generations."
(AP, 7/3/98)
1887-1953 Roland Young, English actor: "I’m a
self-made man, but I think if I had it to do over again, I’d call in
someone else."
(AP, 7/23/01)
1887-1954 Ernest Albert Hooton, American
anthropologist. "History is principally the inaccurate narration of
events which ought not to have happened."
(AP, 3/19/97)
1887-1956 Diego Rivera, Mexican mural painter. His
murals included the "History of Medicine."
(SFC, 4/18/96, E-1)(NH, 7/96, p.6)
1887-1959 Theresa Helburn, American theatrical
producer: "One's lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and
the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and first thing you
know, you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too."
(AP, 1/9/99)
1887-1964 Hesketh Pearson, British biographer:
"Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted."
(AP, 1/29/00)
1887-1966 A bench in Boston at the intersection of
Arlington St. and the Public Garden is dedicated to Charles Pagelson
Howard: "Lawyer, soldier, public servant and defender of the Artistic
Integrity of Commonwealth Avenue."
(SFC, 12/10/95, p.T-5)
1887-1972 Marianne Moore, American poet: "The
passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."
"Psychology, which explains everything, explains nothing, and we are
still in doubt."
(AP, 2/17/98)(AP, 11/15/98)
1887-1973 Marjorie Merriweather Post, one of the
richest women of her day. Her Hillwood mansion in Washington DC was
restored for $9 million in 2000. She had one daughter by financier E.F.
Hutton.
(WSJ, 9/22/00, p.W14)
1887-1979 Nadia Boulanger, French music composer
teacher. "Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to
cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece." "Loving a child
doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out
the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."
(AP, 3/26/97)(AP, 2/23/99)
1887-1982 Arthur Rubinstein, pianist. A biography of
Rubinstein, written in 1995 by Harvey Sachs, is titled Rubinstein: A
Life. A review of the book is written by Harold C. Schonberg, author of
The Great Pianists.
(WSJ, 11/15/95, p.A-20)
1887-1986 Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter. [see
1887 Nov 15]
(SFEC, 9/7/97, BR p.9)
1888 Jan 3, Marvin C. Stone of
Washington, DC, patented the drinking straw. Slurp.
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1888 Jan 12, A major blizzard hit
South Dakota and left hundreds of children and adults dead. In 2004
David Laskin authored “The Children’s Blizzard.”
(WSJ, 11/24/04, p.D10)
1888 Jan 24, Ernst Heinrich
Heinkel, German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft), was born.
(MC, 1/24/02)
1888 Jan 24, Henry King, US
director (Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High), was born.
(MC, 1/24/02)
1888 Jan 27, National Geographic
Society was founded in Washington, DC. It 1st magazine was published
Oct 1, 1888. In 2004 Robert M. Poole authored “Explorers House:
National Geographic and the World it Made.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Society)(Econ,
10/16/04, p.81)
1888 Jan 30, Asa Gray (b.1810),
American botanist, died. He made great contributions to the descriptive
botany of North America. He was the chief American exponent of Darwin's
concepts, defending them against the attacks of zoologist Louis Agassiz.
(HNQ, 3/14/99)
1888 Feb 13, Georgios Papandreou,
Greek prefect of Lesbos, minister, premier, was born.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1888 Feb 20, Marie Rambert, ballet
dancer and director, was born.
(HN, 2/20/01)
1888 Feb 22, John Reid of Scotland
demonstrated golf to Americans at Yonkers, NY. Reid converted his lawn
to six hole for golf in Yonkers N.Y., the first golf course in the US.
(SFEC, 7/18/99, Z1 p.8)(MC, 2/22/02)
1888 Feb 25, John Foster Dulles
was born. He served as Secretary of State to President Eisenhower
(1953-1959).
(HN, 2/25/98)(MC, 2/25/02)
1888 Feb 27, Lotte Lehmann, German
opera singer, was born.
(HN, 2/27/01)
1888 Feb 28, Vincent d'Indy's
Wallenstein trilogy, premiered.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1888 Mar 4, Knute Rockne,
Norwegian-US football player, coach for Notre Dame, was born.
(HN, 3/4/98)(SC, 3/4/02)
1888 Mar 5, Friedrich Schnack,
German journalist, writer (Rosewood), was born.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1888 Mar 6, Louisa May Alcott
(1832) died in Boston just hours after the burial of her father. Her
novels included "Little Women" (1868). In 1998 "Little Women" premiered
in Houston as an opera by Mark Adomo.
(HN, 3/6/01)(WSJ, 8/29/01, p.A12)
1888 Mar 10, Barry Fitzgerald,
actor (Academy Award - Going My Way), was born in Dublin, Ireland.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1888 Mar 10, The 1st performance
of Cesar Franck's "Psyche."
(MC, 3/10/02)
1888 Mar 11-14, The famous
"Blizzard of ‘88" struck the northeastern United States, resulting in
some 400 deaths. New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington were cut
off for days.
(AP, 3/11/98)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)
1888 Mar 13, Great Blizzard of
1888 raged. During the blizzard a cattle drover killed his biggest ox,
gutted it, and crawled inside to survive the freeze.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.8)(MC, 3/13/02)
1888 Mar 20, Start of the Sherlock
Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia."
(MC, 3/20/02)
1888 Mar 21, Arthur Pinero's
"Sweet Lavender," premiered in London.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1888 Mar 23, Morrison R. Waite
(b.1816), US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1874-1888), died after
serving for 14 years. He interpreted constitutional amendments after
the Civil War.
(SFC, 9/6/05,
p.A4)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/43/)
1888 Mar 29, James E. Casey,
founder of the United Parcel Service, was born.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1888 Apr 3, Gertrude Bridget "Ma"
Rainey, American singer, "the mother of the blues," was born. [see Apr
26, 1886]
(HN, 4/3/01)
1888 Apr 7, Start of Sherlock
Holmes adventure "Yellow Face."
(MC, 4/7/02)
1888 Apr 15, Matthew Arnold (65),
English poet, died.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1888 Apr 16, Drentse and Friese
peat cutters went on strike.
(MC, 4/16/02)
1888 Apr 20, 246 people were
reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1888 Apr 24, Eastman Kodak was
formed. The company produced the Kodak Camera: “You press the button –
we do the rest.”
(HN, 4/24/98)(WSJ, 1/22/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/2/06, p.B10)
1888 Apr 26, Aleksandr Mikhailov,
astronomer, was born in USSR.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1888 Apr 30, John Crowe Ransom,
poet and critic, was born.
(HN, 4/30/98)
1888 May 6, Russell Stover, candy
manufacturer, was born.
(HN, 5/6/01)
1888 May 7, Edouard Lalo's opera
"Le roi d'Ys," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 5/7/02)
1888 May 7, George Eastman
patented his Kodak box camera.
(MC, 5/7/02)
1888 May 10, Maximilian Raoul
Walter Steiner (Max Steiner), composer (Gone With Wind), was born in
Vienna.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1888 May 11, Songwriter Irving
Berlin, composer of White Christmas, was born Israel Baline in Temun,
Russia.
(AP, 5/11/97)(HN, 5/11/98)
1888 May 13, DeWolf Hopper 1st
recited "Casey at the Bat."
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1888 May 13, Slavery was abolished
in Brazil. Some 4 million slaves had been imported, the most of any
nation in the western hemisphere.
(WSJ, 8/6/96, p.A1)(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)(HN,
5/13/98)
1888 May 25, Miles Malleson,
writer, actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1888 May 28, James Francis Thorpe,
American athlete, was born in Shawnee, OK. Jim Thorpe won an Olympic
gold medal in 1912, and played for professional football and baseball
teams.
(HN, 5/28/99)(MC, 5/28/02)
1888 Jun 1, California got its
first seismographs as three of the devices were installed at the Lick
Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Ca.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1888 Jun 3, The poem “Casey at the
Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was 1st published in the SF Daily
Examiner. The poem was based on a game played in Stockton, Ca.
(SFC, 4/28/05, p.A1)(www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE23.html)
1888 Jun 13, The US Congress
created the Department of Labor.
(AP, 6/13/97)
1888 Jun 15, Wilhelm II became
emperor of Germany.
(MC, 6/15/02)
1888 Jun 16, Bobby Clark, comedian
and actor, was born.
(HN, 6/16/01)
1888 Jun 23, Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at
the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first
black candidate nominated for US president. The nomination went to
Benjamin Harrison.
(AP, 6/23/00)
1888 Jun 23, Emil Naumann (60),
composer, died.
(MC, 6/23/02)
1888 Jun 27, Antoinette Perry,
actress and director, namesake of the "Tony" Awards, was born.
(HN, 6/27/01)
1888 Jun 29, Professor Frederick
Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.
(HN, 6/29/98)
1888 Jul 4, Many believe that the
first rodeo in America was held in Prescott, Arizona, on this day.
Before this, informal competitions were frequently held among ranch
hands from a single ranch or from neighboring spreads, but they were
not full-scale rodeos. The Prescott event went on to become an annual
contest.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1888 Jul 11, Bartomeo Vanzetti,
executed with Nicola Sacco for several murders during a robbery, the
trial created an international storm of protest, was born.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1888 Jul 17, S.Y. Agnon, Israeli
writer (The Day Before Yesterday), was born.
(HN, 7/17/01)
1888 Jul 22, Selman Abraham
Waksman, biochemist, was born.
(HN, 7/22/02)
1888 Jul 23, Raymond Chandler,
writer of detective stories, creator of the character Philip Marlow,
was born.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1888 Jul 27, Philip Pratt unveiled
the 1st electric automobile.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1888 Jul, Harold P. Brown, on
behalf of Thomas Edison, zapped dogs at Columbia College to demonstrate
the supposed danger of alternating current, a mode of power favored by
Edison’s rival George Westinghouse. The NY state legislature had
recently designated electrocution as the official means for capital
punishment.
(SFEC, 3/22/98, p.A26)(ON, 10/04, p.7)
1888 Jul, In Japan Mount Bandai
erupted and left 461 people dead.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A17)
1888 Aug 6, Martha Turner was
murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in
London, England. Between August and November 506 women were murdered in
London’s Whitechapel district. In 1994 Philip Sugden authored “The
Complete History of Jack the Ripper.”
(HN, 8/6/98)(WSJ, 1/31/09, p.W8)
1888 Aug 7, Theophilus Van Kannel
of Philadelphia received a patent for the revolving door.
(HN, 8/7/00)
1888 Aug 12, Bertha, wife of
inventor Karl Benz, made the 1st motor tour.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1888 Aug 13, John Logie Baird,
inventor (father of TV), was born in Scotland.
(MC, 8/13/02)
1888 Aug 15, The British soldier
T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia for his military
exploits against the Turks in World War I, was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested
from a sure defeat."
(AP, 8/15/97)(HN, 8/15/98)(AP, 5/19/01)
1888 Aug 17, Monty Wooley, actor
(Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1888 Aug 31, Mary Ann Nicholls, a
42-year-old prostitute, was found murdered in London's East End. She is
generally regarded as the first of at least five murder victims of
"Jack the Ripper." [see Aug 6]
(AP, 8/31/99)(YN, 8/31/99)
1888 Sep 4, George Eastman
received patent #388,850 for his roll-film camera and registered his
trademark: "Kodak." George Eastman introduced the box camera.
(V.D.-H.K.p.273)(AP, 9/4/97)(MC, 9/4/01)
1888 Sep 6, Joseph P. Kennedy,
Boston Mass, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy, was born.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1888 Sep 7, The 1st US incubator
was used on a premature infant, Edith Eleanor McLean. It was built by
Dr. William Champion Deming at the State Emigrant Hospital, Ward's
Island, NY.
(HN, 9/7/98)(www.medterms.com)
1888 Sep 12, Maurice Chevalier
(d.1972), actor, was born in Paris, France.
(HN, 9/12/00)(www.jimpoz.com)
1888 Sep 18, Start of Sherlock
Holmes adventure "Sign of Four."
(MC, 9/18/01)
1888 Sep 25, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles."
(MC, 9/25/01)
1888 Sep 25, The Royal Court
Theatre, London, opened.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1888 Sep 26, T.S. Eliot (d.1976),
American-Anglo poet, critic, and dramatist, was born. His poetry
included "The Waste Land" and "Ash Wednesday." "Those who say they give
the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end
by debauching it."
(AP, 3/28/99)(HN, 9/26/99)
1888 Sep 30, "Jack the Ripper"
butchered 2 more women, Elizabeth Stride (45), aka Long Liz, on Berner
St. and Kate Eddowes (45). Donald Rumbelow later authored "The Complete
Jack the Ripper."
(MC, 9/30/01)(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.T7)
1888 Oct 1, National Geographic
magazine published for 1st time. The National Geographic Society was
founded by Gardiner Hubbard, the father-in-law of Alexander Graham
Bell. In 1997 Charles McCarry edited: "From the Field: A Collection of
Writing from National Geographic."
(NG, Nov. 1985, p. 657)(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.T13)(SFEC,
7/18/99, Z1 p.8)(MC, 10/1/01)
1888 Oct 7, Henry A. Wallace,
(D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45) and founder Progressive Party, was born.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1888 Oct 8, Melville W. Fuller
(1833-1910) was sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice.
(SFC, 9/6/05,
p.A4)(www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/50/)
1888 Oct 9, The Washington
Monument, designed by Robert Mills, was completed and the public was
first admitted. Steam powered elevators carried visitors to the top in
12 minutes. It underwent a $1.5 million renovation in 1998. In 1903
Frederick L. Harvey authored "History of the Washington National
Monument and Washington National Monument Association." In 1995 Craig
and Katherine Doherty authored "The Washington Monument."
(SFC, 5/23/98, p.A3)(ON, 3/00, p.10)(HN, 10/9/00)
1888 Oct 14, Katherine Mansfield,
short story writer, was born.
(HN, 10/14/00)
1888 Oct 16, Eugene O'Neill
(d.1953), Nobel Prize-winning playwright (1936), was born in NYC. His
work includes "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "The Iceman
Cometh."
(AP, 11/27/97)(HN, 10/16/00)(MC, 10/16/01)
1888 Oct 25, Richard E. Byrd, U.S.
aviator and explorer who made the first flight over the North Pole, was
born.
(HN, 10/25/98)
1888 Oct 29, Lord Salisbury
granted Cecil Rhodes a charter for the BSA Company.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1888 Oct 30, John J. Loud patented
a ballpoint pen.
(MC, 10/30/01)
1888 Oct 30, In London Jack the
Ripper murdered his last victim. [see Nov 3]
(MC, 10/30/01)
1888 Oct-1888 Dec, Vincent van
Gogh shared a 4-room house in Arles, France, with Paul Gauguin. During
this period Van Gogh painted his portrait “l’Arlesienne, Madame Ginoux”
based on a drawing by Gauguin. In December Van Gogh cut off his ear
with a razor during a quarrel with painter Paul Gauguin, who then fled
to Paris. They never saw each other again. In 2006 martin Gayford
authored “The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks
in Arles.”
(Econ, 4/29/06, p.89)
1888 Vincent van Gogh painted the
"Portrait of a Young Man in a Cap." The painting later went up for
auction for as much as $8 mil. Van Gogh also painted his "Boats at
Saintes-Maries," "The Bedroom," "Self Portrait as an Artist," "Postman
Joseph Roulin," and "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" in this year. In 1990
Robert Altman directed a film titled "Vincent and Theo" about Van Gogh
and his brother.
(WSJ, 4/27/95, p.C-18)(WSJ, 11/10/95, p. A-10)(SFC,
4/13/96, p.E3)(SFC, 1/14/98, p.D3)(SFEC, 10/25/98, Z1 p.12)(WSJ,
9/3/99, p.W10)(WSJ, 9/24/99, p.W9)
1888 Nov 3, In London Jack the
Ripper murdered his last victim. In 2002 Patricia Cornwell, crime
writer, reported that Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), English
Impressionist painter, was Jack the Ripper. [see Oct 30]
(WSJ, 9/27/01, p.A16)(MC, 11/3/01)(SSFC, 2/24/02,
Par p.2)
1888 Nov 6, Benjamin Harrison of
Indiana won the presidential election, beating incumbent Grover
Cleveland on electoral votes, 233-168, although Cleveland led in the
popular vote. Tammany Hall helped carry new York for the GOP. In 2008
Charles W. Calhoun authored “Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and
the Front Porch Campaign of 1888.
(AP, 11/6/97)(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A26)(WSJ, 12/3/08,
p.A15)
1888 Nov 10, Andrej N. Tupelov,
Russian aircraft builder, was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1888 Nov 17, Peter Tchaikovsky's
5th Symphony premiered in St. Petersburg.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1888 Nov 20, William Bundy
patented a timecard clock.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1888 Nov 21, Adolph Arthur "Harpo"
Marx, American comedian, one of the Marx brothers, was born. The
inventive American pantomimist never spoke a line in his many movies,
which he starred in alongside his brothers.
(HN, 11/23/00)
1888 Nov 24, Dale Carnegie
(d.1955), public speaker, was born in Missouri. He authored "How to Win
Friends and Influence People" (1937).
(HN,
11/24/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie)
1888 Dec 2, Mehmed N. Kemal Bey
(47), Turkish writer and journalist (Vatan), died.
(MC, 12/2/01)
1888 Dec 7, Joyce Cary (d.1957),
Irish-born novelist (The Horse's Mouth), was born. "It is the tragedy
of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know -- and the less a
man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything."
(HN, 12/7/00)(AP, 1/30/99)
1888 Dec 7, Ernst Toch, composer
and pianist, was born.
(HN, 12/7/00)
1888 Dec 7, John Boyd Dunlop
(1840-1921), Scotland-born inventor, patented a pneumatic tire. Two
years after he was granted the patent Dunlop was officially informed
that it was invalid as Scottish inventor Robert William Thomson
(1822–1873), had patented the idea in France in 1846 and in the US in
1847. Dunlop's patent was later declared invalid on the basis of
Thomson's prior art.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_Dunlop)
1888 Dec 18, Robert Moses, power
broker, was born. He built Long Island and NYC parks & roads.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1888 Dec 19, Fritz Reiner, US
conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), was born in Budapest, Hungary.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1888 McKendree Robbins Long
(d.1976), Southern gothic painter and evangelical preacher, was born in
Statesville, NC.
(SFC, 7/6/02, p.D6)
1888 James Ensor, Belgian artist,
painted "Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889." It was later acquired
by the Getty Museum.
(WSJ, 4/9/99, p.W16)(SFEM, 10/17/99, p.11)
1888 Vincent van Gogh painted the
"Portrait of a Young Man in a Cap." The painting later went up for
auction for as much as $8 mil. Van Gogh also painted his "Boats at
Saintes-Maries," "The Bedroom," "Self Portrait as an Artist," "Postman
Joseph Roulin," and "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" in this year. In 1990
Robert Altman directed a film titled "Vincent and Theo" about Van Gogh
and his brother.
(WSJ, 4/27/95, p.C-18)(WSJ, 11/10/95, p. A-10)(SFC,
4/13/96, p.E3)(SFC, 1/14/98, p.D3)(SFEC, 10/25/98, Z1 p.12)(WSJ,
9/3/99, p.W10)(WSJ, 9/24/99, p.W9)
1888 John Singer Sargent painted
the portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner titled "Mrs. Jack."
(WSJ, 8/5/99, p.A16)
1888 Rudolph Swoboda painted "The
Munshi Abdul Karim," a portrait of Queen Victoria's favorite servant
after the death of Hohn Brown.
(WSJ, 11/26/03, p.D10)
1888 Edward Bellamy published his
novel "Looking Backward 2000-1887." In the book he foresaw the credit
card, the radio, and the women’s movement.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, Par p.10)
1888 Madame Blavatsky, co-founder
of Theosophy, authored "The Secret Doctrine," in which she outlined the
principles of all religion.
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.W15)
1888 David Goodman Croly, a
newspaper columnist known as "Sir Oracle," compiled a set of
predictions in a volume titled "Glimpses of the Future." Passages were
later paraphrased in the 1981 book "The Book of Predictions" by David
Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace and Irving Wallace.
(WSJ, 1/1/00, p.R8)
1888 Webster Edgerley, head of the
Ralston health Club of America, authored “Lessons in the Mechanics of
Personal Magnetism.”
(Arch, 5/04, p.33)
1888 August Strindberg wrote his
drama "Miss Julie," about the sex war and class war.
(SFC, 5/28/96, p.D1)(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A20)
1888 Gen’l. Lew Wallace wrote "The
Boyhood of Christ."
(HT, 3/97, p.66)
1888 Debussy composed "Ariettes
oubliees" to symbolist poems by Paul Verlaine.
(WSJ, 8/16/01, p.A12)
1888 In New York City the 13-story
Tower building was constructed at 50 Broadway.
(HT, 5/97, p.24)
1888 The Hotel del Coronado was
built in San Diego by 2 retired midwesterners who helped lure the
railroad to San Diego.
(WSJ, 10/25/96, p.B9)
1888 In Massachusetts the Searles
Castle was built in Great Barrington on commission by Mary Hopkins
(d.1891), the widow of railroad tycoon Mark Hopkins. Its seven turrets
and blue dolomite exterior created a 60,000-square-foot fortress at the
end of Main Street. Mary Hopkins hired noted interior decorator Edward
Searles for the project, and the two married a year before it was
finished. In 2007 it sold for $15 million.
(AP, 5/19/07)
1888 In San Francisco the Bayview
Opera House was built at 4705 3rd Street. In 2007 a 3-year $4 million
renovation program was begun.
(SFC, 10/19/07, p.B1)
1888 The Lick Observatory was
built atop Mt. Hamilton near San Jose, California with its 36-inch
telescope, the largest in the world.
(SFC, 3/5/97, p.C1)
1888 The Blagen Block building was
built in Portland, Oregon, at a cost of $50,000. Its decorations were
made of cast iron.
(Exc, 6/96, p.70)
1888 For the dedication of
Skidmore Fountain in Portland, Oregon, brewer Harvey Weinhard offered
to pump his beer through the fountain. The city fathers declined the
offer.
(Hem, 4/96, p.129)
1888 The fraternal order of the
Moose Lodge was founded.
(WSJ, 11/8/96, p.A1)
1888 The Geological Society of
America was founded.
(NG, May 1988, Mem For)
1888 The US Patent and Trademark
Office changed its requirements due to space problems and allowed the
submission of blueprints of devices to be patented instead of models.
(Cont, 12/97, p.22)
1888 Blanche Kelso Bruce
(1841-1898), former US Senator from Mississippi, was named recorder of
deeds in Washington DC under Pres. Benjamin Harrison.
(WSJ, 7/12/06, p.D12)
1888 In Cleveland a statue was
commissioned and constructed to honor Moses Cleaveland by the city
fathers. The resulting likeness seemed a little too porky so the artist
simply cut a part of the midriff out and closed the gap.
(SFC, 6/2/96, T10)
1888 Edward Katzinger founded a
commercial baking-pan company in Chicago. It later became known as Ecko
Housewares Co. By the 1960s it was the country’s largest manufacturer
of non-electric kitchen items.
(SFC, 4/16/08, p.G3)
1888 In Chicago Louis Glunz set up
shop as a wine, beer and spirits merchant at Wells and Division
streets. By 2009 the Louis Glunz Beer company represented
Chicago-land consumers with the largest portfolio of Micro, Specialty
and Import Beers with 665 brands and 172 breweries worldwide.
(www.glunzbavarianhaus.com/glunz-bavarian-chicago.html)
1888 Thomas Adams installed the
1st Tutti Frutti machines on the platforms of the elevated trains of
NYC. They dispensed gumballs for a penny.
(WSJ, 7/28/00, p.W13)
1888 William Henry Belk founded a
dry goods store in Monroe, NC. By 1960 the partnerships produced a
chain of 362 Belk Inc. department stores under the leadership of
his son, John Montgomery Belk (1920-2007).
(WSJ, 8/25/07,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belk)
1888 Asa Candler purchased the
Coca Cola formula. In 2004 Constance L. Hays authored "The Real thing:
Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company."
(SSFC, 2/22/04, p.M3)
1888 Wells Fargo introduced
Ocean-to-Ocean express services, the first transcontinental express
that shipped all kinds of valuables.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A10)
1888 In Hawaii Benjamin Franklin
Dillingham, a seaman from Mass., founded the Oahu Railway and Land Co.
(SFC, 10/28/98, p.A19)
1888 W.W. Mayo and his sons,
Charles and William, established their family practice. It later grew
to become the Mayo Clinic.
(SFC, 7/5/96, PM, p.5)
1888 John Gregg introduced his
system of shorthand.
(SFEC, 7/18/99, Z1 p.8)
1888 George Parker began selling
fountain pens.
(SFEC, 7/18/99, Z1 p.8)
1888 In Colorado Richard Wetherill
and Charles Mason, cowboys looking for lost cattle, came upon the
abandoned 150-room Cliff Palace of the Puebloan people, who had lived
in the area from about 400-1300. In 1906 the area became Mesa Verde
National Park.
(SSFC, 4/2/06, p.F10)
1888 Olaf and Edward Ohman, a
Swedish immigrant farmer, while digging up tree stumps in Kensington,
Minn., came upon a 202-pound stone with runic inscriptions. Dated to
1363 (1362) the inscriptions seemed to describe how a party of Vikings
had returned to this spot after an exploratory survey, and found ten
men left behind "red with blood and dead." Ever since the discovery,
scholars have debated the stone's authenticity.
(SFEM, 11/15/98, p.25)(HNQ, 6/4/01)
1888 Willi Posselt, an American
hunter and trader, reported on his search for treasure in the ruins of
the Great Zimbabwe in East Africa.
(ATC, p.145-146)
1888 In Afghanistan a royal decree
granted Pashtun Sunnis rights to graze their herds in the central
highlands, land occupied by the Hazara people.
(SFC, 10/21/08, p.A12)
1888 The Queen Victoria Building
was built in Sydney, Australia.
(Hem, 6/96, p.64)
1888 In Belgium the first beauty
contest was held.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)
1888 A gastrointestinal disorder,
later known as celiac disease, was formally described by and English
pediatrician. The disease was later understood as an auto-immune attack
on the small intestine lining triggered by gluten proteins in grains.
An effective treatment emerged in 1950 when Willem Dicke, a Dutch
doctoral student, noticed that celiac children had improved after WW II
disrupted flour supplies.
(WSJ, 12/8/05, p.A1,9)
1888 An Egyptian farmer discovered
thousands of cat mummies.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, BR p.7)
1888 Etienne Henri Dumaige
(b.1830), French sculptor, died. He worked in marble, plaster and
bronze. His subjects included Rabelais, Sappho, Perseus and other
classical figures.
(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.G5)
1888 German scientists discovered
that small amounts of poison might actually do an organism good. The
paradoxical effect was called hormesis.
(WSJ, 12/19/03, p.B1)
1888 In Jerusalem the Mary
Magdalene convent was consecrated. Its decoration was overseen by Grand
Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, consort to Russia’s Grand Duke Sergei
Alexandrovich, the brother of Tsar Alexander III.
(Econ, 12/19/09, p.82)
1888 Fridtjof Nansen of Norway led
a 5-man team across Greenland on skis.
(ON, 7/05, p.1)
1888 In Mexico the Santo Tomas
Winery was founded near Ensenada.
(SFC, 9/27/96, p.E3)
1888 In Spain the fishing
company Grupo Viera SA was founded.
(WSJ, 1/18/07, p.A13)
1888 In Switzerland Dr. Eugen
Frick made the first set of contact lenses.
(SFEC, 1/24/99, Z1 p.8)
1888-1889 Albert G. Spalding (1850-1915), American
baseball star and promoter, led a 6-month world tour to promote
baseball. In 2006 Mark Lamster authored “Spalding’s World Tour,” an
account of Spalding’s 6-month world tour to promote baseball.
(http://tinyurl.com/na793)(WSJ, 3/29/06, p.D10)
1888-1889 This period in Vienna, Austria, is
documented by Frederic Morton in his Thunder at Twilight: Vienna
1888-1889.
(WSJ)
1888-1912 A bottle-nosed dolphin escorted ships for 6
miles through the narrow channel into New Zealand’s Pelores Sound.
Sailors named the dolphin Pelores Jack.
(SFEC, 9/7/97, Z1 p.5)
1888-1923 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander author:
New Zealander author: I do believe one ought to face facts. If you
don’t they get behind you and may become terrors, nightmares, giants,
horrors. As long as one faces them one is top dog. "To be wildly
enthusiastic, or deadly serious—both are wrong. Both pass. One must
keep ever present a sense of humour."
(AP, 6/3/97)(AP, 9/26/98)
1888-1924 Vincente Greco, Argentine composer, best
know for his tango composition "Ojos Negros," or Black Eyes. He was the
son of poor Italian immigrants and turned to music early on. He learned
several instruments, among them the bandoneon.
(E-mail, zgg@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de, 9/15/95,
Eckart Haerter)
1888-1935 T.E. Lawrence, English soldier and author:
"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested
from a sure defeat."
(AP, 5/19/97)
1888-1939 Heywood Broun, American journalist: "I see
no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day."
(AP, 12/11/00)
1888-1941 Aline Kilmer, American poet: "Many
excellent words are ruined by too definite a knowledge of their
meaning."
(AP, 2/5/99)
1888-1957 Richard Evelyn Byrd, American polar
explorer. He flew over the north pole on May 9, 1926 with Floyd
Bennett. Admiral Byrd flew over the South Pole on Nov. 29, 1929.
(HFA, ‘96, p.42)(HFA, ‘96, p.30)(TMC, 1994, p.1926)
1888-1960 Vicki Baum, Austrian-born author: "Marriage
always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two
human beings."
(AP, 2/1/01)
1888-1965 Mary Day Winn, American writer: "Sex is
the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on
every course in the menu."
(AP, 1/10/01)
1888-1969 Boris Karloff, born to an upper-class
British family as William Henry Pratt, renowned actor and star in the
1931 feature film: Frankenstein.
(WSJ, 10/19/95, A-18)
1888-1973 Frances Marion, Hollywood screenwriter. Her
films included "The Big House" (1930) and "The Champ" (1931) for which
she won Oscars.
(WSJ, 7/28/00, p.W6)
1888-1978 Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter. In
1998 Paolo Baldacci published a collection his work: "De Chirico: The
Metaphysical Period 1888-1919."
(WUD, 1994, p.258)(WSJ, 12/3/98, p.W4)
1889 Jan 2, Tito Schipa, tenor (La
Rondine), was born in Italy.
(MC, 1/2/02)
1889 Jan 8, Dr. Herman Hollerith
(1860-1929), statistician for the US Census Bureau, received the 1st US
patent for a tabulating machine. It resembled Charles Babagge’s
Analytical Engine, but used electromagnetic relays instead of metal
gears.
(www.answers.com/topic/herman-hollerith)(ON, 5/05,
p.7)
1889 Jan 9, A tornado struck
Brooklyn, NY, when Flatbush was farmland. A twister blew through what
are now the neighborhoods of Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Downtown,
Fort Greene and Williamsburg, blowing roofs off houses and uprooting
trees, but killing no one. 14 people were killed by the tornado in
Pittsburg, Pa.
(http://tinyurl.com/349275)(http://tinyurl.com/395f4q)
1889 Jan 14, The 1st issue of the
Lithuanian "Varpas" (Bell) newspaper was published.
(LHC, 1/14/03)
1889 Jan 16, An Australian record
temperature of 128F, or 53C, was recorded in Cloncurry, Queensland.
(MC, 1/16/02)
1889 Feb 4, Harry Longabaugh was
released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous
nickname, "the Sundance Kid."
(HN, 2/4/99)
1889 Feb 4, The Panama Canal
project under Ferdinand de Lesseps (d.1894) went bankrupt. Over 5,000
French people died working on the project. In all over 25,000 people
died during 8 years of work, mostly from malaria and yellow fever.
(Econ, 2/24/07,
p.97)(www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/185.html)
1889 Feb 17, H[aroldson] L. Hunt,
Texas oil multi-millionaire, was born.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1889 Feb 22, President Cleveland
signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the
Union.
(AP, 2/22/99)
1889 Mar 2, Congress passed the
Indian Appropriations Bill, proclaiming unassigned lands in the public
domain; the first step toward the famous Oklahoma Land Rush.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1889 Mar 2, Kansas passed 1st US
antitrust legislation.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1889 Mar 4, Benjamin Harrison was
inaugurated as 23rd President.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1889 Mar 8, Jens/John Ericsson
(85), Swedish-US, engineer (fire extinguisher), died.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1889 Mar 19, Sarah Gertrude
Millina, South African writer (The Dark River, God's Stepchildren).
(HN, 3/19/01)
1889 Mar 23, President Harrison
opened Oklahoma for white colonization.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1889 Mar 31, French engineer
Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower,
officially marking its completion. Constructed of 7,000 tons of iron
and steel, the 984-foot structure was designed by Alexandre Gustave
Eiffel for the Paris Exhibition of 1889, commemorating the centennial
of the French Revolution. The price for the Eiffel Tower was more than
$1 million, but fees for the year 1889 alone nearly recouped the cost.
Fifty-five years later, plans by Hitler to leave the tower and much of
Paris a smoking ruin were foiled by an unlikely hero. After the Paris
World Fair a church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was dismantled
and shipped to Santa Rosalia in Baja, Mexico.
(SFEC, 10/20/96, Par, p.23)(SFEC, 11/10/96,
p.T11)(HNPD, 3/31/99)(AP, 3/31/08)
1889 Mar, Friedrich Nietzsche
entered an asylum 2 months after a mental collapse at age 44.
Nietzsche's sister Elizabeth edited his writings from this time on.
(WSJ, 2/4/99, p.A20)
1889
Apr 1, The first dishwashing machine was marketed (in Chicago).
(OTD)
1889 Apr 5, Start of Sherlock
Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches."
(MC, 4/5/02)
1889 Apr 6, George Eastman placed
the Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1889 Apr 8, Adrian Boult,
conductor, composer (BBC Sym Orch), was born in Chester, England.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1889 Apr 11, Nick La Rocca, US
cornetist, composer (Tiger Rag), was born.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1889 Apr 14, Arnold Toynbee
(d.1975), English historian, was born. He wrote the 12-volume "A Study
of History." "The history of almost every civilization furnishes
examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in
quality." "Of the 20 or so civilizations known to modern Western
historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when
we diagnose each case ... we invariably find that the cause of death
has been either War or Class or some combination of the two."
(AP, 3/24/98)(AP, 8/24/98)(HN, 4/14/99)
1889 Apr 15, Thomas Hart Benton
(d.1975), painter, muralist, was born in Missouri.
(HN,
4/15/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_%28painter%29)
1889 Apr 15, Asa Philip Randolph,
American labor leader, was born.
(HN, 4/15/98)
1889 Apr 15, A marshal's posse
killed and captured a group of Sooners, settlers who stole onto the
Public Domain territory in Oklahoma in hopes of claiming it legally,
just nine days before the official start of the land rush.
(HN, 4/15/99)
1889 Apr 15, Rev. Damien de
Veuster (b.1840), Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in
Hawaii, died of leprosy. In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI set his canonization
date for Oct 11, 2009. He was beatified in 1995 after the Vatican
declared that the 1987 recovery of a nun of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus
and Mary was a miracle. Audrey Toguchi recovered from lung cancer in
1999 after praying to Damien.
(AP,
2/21/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien)
1889 Apr 16, Charlie Chaplin
(d.1977), actor, director, composer and silent movie comedian, was born
in London into a family of music hall performers. He is best remembered
for his character "Little Tramp." He was a British motion-picture
actor, producer, writer, director and composer and worked in America
from 1913-1952. In 1997 his biography "Charlie Chaplin and His Times"
by Kenneth S. Lynn was published.
(HFA, '96, p.28)(AHD, p.225)(WUB, 1994, p.247)(WSJ,
3/7/97, p.A12)(HN, 4/16/99)(AP, 4/16/00)
1889 Apr 20, Adolf Hitler, leader
of National Socialist Party (1921-1945), was born in Braunau, Austria.
He was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945 and started World
War II by invading Poland. He committed suicide in his Berlin bunker.
The German Fascist leader, promised to bring Germany to the promised
land on one condition: that the state would have total control over all
the organs, organizations, and citizens of the nation. Brigitte Hammann
later authored "Hitler in Vienna: A Dictator’s Apprenticeship." In 1998
Ron Rosenbaum published "Explaining Hitler," a look at the various
agendas and needs of different scholars in their examination of Hitler.
In 1999 Ian Kershaw published "Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris."
(V.D.-H.K.p.309)(HN, 4/20/98)(SFEC, 10/18/98, BR
p.5)(WSJ, 1/21/98, p.A16) (AP, 4/20/99)(HN, 4/20/99)(WSJ, 4/4/01, p.A6)
1889 Apr 22, The US federal
government opened up the Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory to the
country’s first land run. The Oklahoma land rush officially started at
noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.
(WSJ, 1/4/96, p.A-8)(AP, 4/22/97)(HN, 4/22/98)
1889 Apr 26, Ludwig Wittgenstein
(d.1951), philosopher (Tractatus), was born in Vienna, Austria. He
pondered the nature of knowledge and the limits of language. He argued
that the criteria for the correct use of any language must be social.
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
(SFEC, 10/27/96, BR p.4)(SFC, 1/31/98, p.E1)(WSJ,
8/21/98, p.W13)(AP, 1/3/01)(MC, 4/26/02)
1889 Apr 28, Antonio de Oliveira
Salazar, premier, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), was born.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1889 Apr 30, Washington’s
inauguration became the first U.S. national holiday. Washington’s
inauguration was later depicted in a painting by Ramon de Elorriaga.
(HN, 4/30/98)(SSFC, 1/21/01, p.A12)
1889 May 1, Bayer in Germany
introduced aspirin in powder form.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1889 May 6, The Paris Exposition
formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
(AP, 5/6/97)
1889 May 11, Major Joseph
Washington Wham took charge of $28,000 in gold and silver to pay troops
at various points in the Arizona Territory. The money was soon stolen
in a train robbery.
(HN, 5/11/99)
1889 May 18, Jules Massenet’s
opera "Esclarmonde" premiered in Paris, France.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1889 May 20, Felix Arndt,
composer, was born.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1889 May 24, George Henry Calvert
(b.1803), American author and great grandson of Lord Baltimore, died.
His writing covered historical subjects. In 1854 Calvert was sworn in
as mayor of Newport, Rhode Island.
(www.lib.umd.edu/RARE/MarylandCollection/Riversdale/timeline.html)
1889 May 25, Gilardo Gilardi,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1889 May 25, Sverre Jordan,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1889 May 25, Igor Sikorsky,
aviation engineer, was born in Russia. He moved to America in 1919 and
developed the first successful helicopter.
(HN, 5/25/99)(ON, 3/06, p.5)
1889 May 29, August Strindberg's
"Hemsoborna" premiered in Copenhagen.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1889 May 30, The brassiere was
invented in Paris. [see 1902]
(HN, 5/30/98)(WSJ, 2/3/99, p.A1)
1889 May 31, Johnstown,
Pennsylvania was destroyed by a massive flood. The South Fork Dam
across a tributary of the Little Conemaugh River collapsed under
pressure from the rain-swollen Lake Conemaugh. Water slammed into
Johnstown, Pa., 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh and killed 2,209
people in a flood and related fire. Torrential rains had weakened the
poorly constructed dam, located 14 miles upstream from the city. By the
afternoon of May 31, after desperate efforts to shore up the earthen
dam had failed, it broke and unleashed a 40-foot-high wave of water and
debris into Johnstown with the force of Niagara Falls. Buildings and
trees, along with animals and people--both dead and alive--piled up
against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's Stone Bridge. The mountain
of debris then caught fire, trapping hundreds. More than 2,000 people
lost their lives in the devastating Johnstown Flood. The South Fork Dam
had been constructed to create Lake Conemaugh, a playground for the
wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. In 1959
Richard O'Connor published "Johnstown, the Day the Dam Broke." In 1968
David McCullough authored “The Johnstown Flood.”
(SFC, 3/24/97, p.C2)(AP, 5/31/97)(HN, 5/31/98)(WSJ,
1/27/06, p.P8)
1889 Jun 4, Beno Gutenberg,
seismologist, was born.
(HN, 6/4/01)
1889 Jun 19, Start of Sherlock
Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip."
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1889 Jun 28, Maria Mitchell
(b.1818), American astronomer, died in Lynn, Mass.
(ON, 2/07, p.10)
1889 Jul 4, Washington state
constitutional convention held 1st meeting.
(Maggio, 98)
1889 Jul 5, Jean Cocteau (d.1963),
French artist, writer and actor, was born. "History is a combination of
reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes
the truth."
(AP, 11/16/00)(HN, 7/5/01)
1889 Jul 8, In Mississippi Jake
Kilrain (1859-1937) fought boxing champion John L. Sullivan in the last
world heavyweight championship prizefight decided with bare knuckles
under London Prize Ring rules in history. Sullivan defeated Kilrain in
a match that went to 75 rounds.
(AH, 2/06,
p.29)(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_-_Kilrain_Fight)
1889 Jul 8, Dow Jones & Co.
turned its “Customer’s Afternoon Letter” into a full-fledged newspaper
and co-founder Charles Bergstresser dubbed it the Wall Street Journal.
(AP, 7/8/97)(WSJ, 5/2/07, p.C1)
1889 Jun 8, Gerard Manley Hopkins
(54), poet, died.
(MC, 6/8/02)
1889 Jul 13, Vincent van Gogh
painted "Moonrise." The exact date was determined in 2003 by a
physicist using a computer and moon data from the painting.
(SFC, 7/16/03, p.D2)
1889 Jul 17, Erle Stanley Gardner,
writer of detective stories and creator of Perry Mason, was born.
(HN, 7/17/98)
1889 Jul 30, Vladimir Zworykin,
called the "Father of Television" for inventing the iconoscope, was
born in Russia.
(AP, 7/30/97)
1889 Jul, Bare-knuckle boxer John
Lawrence Sullivan reigned as America’s first sports hero at the end of
the 19th century. In July 1889, when challenged by Jake Kilrain of
Baltimore, Sullivan was still unbeaten despite his heavy drinking.
About 3,000 fans gathered in the blazing sun of Richburg, Mississippi,
for what was to be the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The
marathon match went 75 rounds and lasted 2 hours and 16 minutes before
the battered Kilrain’s handlers threw in the towel. Sullivan remained
the champ until September 1892, when he was knocked out for the first
time in his career by "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. The mighty Sullivan died
in 1918.
(HNPD, 7/8/98)
1889 Aug 1, John F. Mahoney,
developed penicillin treatment of syphilis, was born.
(MC, 8/1/02)
1889 Aug 6, Major General George
Kenney, commander of the U.S. Fifth Air Force in New Guinea and the
Solomons during World War II, was born.
(HN, 8/6/98)
1889 Aug 10, Dan Rylands patented
a screw cap.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1889 Aug 12, Zerna Sharp, creator
of the "Dick and Jane" reading books, was born.
(HN, 8/12/00)
1889 Aug 13, The first
coin-operated telephone was patented by William Gray of Hartford, Conn.
A foreman had refused to let Gray call his sick wife from the company
phone.
(SFEC, 10/22/00, Z1 p.2)(AP, 8/13/08)
1889 Aug 14, David S. Terry,
former Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court (1857-1859), was
shot by a bodyguard of Stephen Field, an associate justice of the US
Supreme Court, after Terry slapped Field in the face at a railroad
restaurant in Lathrop, Ca.
(SFC, 9/7/09,
p.C6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Terry)
1889 Aug 16, Buffalo Bill's Wild
West Show star Annie Oakley, using a Colt .45, shot the ash off the end
of a cigarette held in the mouth by a young German Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Appearing at Berlin's Charlottenburg Race Course, Oakley asked in jest
for a volunteer from the audience and, to her horror, the young ruler
of the Reich stepped forward. A nervous Oakley successfully performed
the trick shot. Years later, after the start of WWI, Oakley reportedly
wrote to the Kaiser, asking for a second shot.
(HNPD, 8/16/99)
1889 Aug 23, The 1st ship-to-shore
wireless message was received in US in SF.
(MC, 8/23/02)
1889 Aug 24, Jan E. Matzeliger,
Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), died.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1889 Aug 24, Auguste Neal, a
convicted murderer, was executed in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, becoming
the first and only person to be executed by guillotine in North
America. The device was specially shipped from Martinique for the
execution.
(SSFC, 11/16/08, p.E5)
1889 Aug 31, Start of Sherlock
Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box."
(MC, 8/31/01)
1889 Sep 8, Robert A. Taft, U.S.
Republican Senator from Ohio, was born. He unsuccessfully sought
the presidential nomination in 1952 and helped pass the 1947
Taft-Hartley Act. He was the son of the 27th president of the U.S.
William Howard Taft. Robert was known as "Mr. Republican" because of
his steadfast espousal of traditional conservative values. Taft was a
candidate for the Republican presidential nomination three times and
served in the Senate from 1938 until his death in 1953. Taft
consistently opposed the New Deal program, led the Congressional
isolationist bloc and fought the Lend-Lease bill.
(HN, 9/8/98)(HNQ, 7/8/99)(MC, 9/8/01)
1889 Sep 15, Robert Benchley,
humorist, was born.
(HN, 9/15/00)
1889 Sep 16, Robert Younger, in
Minnesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary for life, died of tuberculosis.
Brothers Cole and Bob remained in that prison.
(HN, 9/16/98)
1889 Sep 23, William Wilkie
Collins, English writer (Moonstone), died.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1889 Sep 23, Walter Lippmann,
journalist, was born in NYC. He was one of the founders of The New
Republic Magazine in 1914. His political writings included "Men of
Destiny."
(HN, 9/23/00)
1889 Sep 23, Louise Nevelson,
sculptor, was born.
(HN, 9/23/00)
1889 Sep 26, Martin Heidegger,
existentialist philosopher and writer, was born in Germany. He wrote
"Being and Time," and criticized the tyranny of modern technology over
man.
(WUD, 1994, p.657)(WSJ, 8/28/97, p.A12)(MC, 9/26/01)
1889 Oct 6, The Moulin Rouge in
Paris first opened its doors to the public.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1889 Oct 6, Thomas Edison showed
his 1st motion picture.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1889 Oct 18, Fannie Hurst,
novelist (Anatomy of Me), was born.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1889 Oct 25, Abel Gance, French
film director (Napoleon), was born.
(HN, 10/25/00)(MC, 10/25/01)
1889 Nov 2, North Dakota was made
the 39th state.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1889 Nov 2, South Dakota was made
the 40th state.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1889 Nov 8, Montana became the
41st state.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(AP, 11/8/97)(HN, 11/6/98)
1889 Nov 11, Washington became the
42nd state of the US.
(HFA, ‘96, p.18)(AP, 11/11/97)
1889 Nov 12, DeWitt Wallace,
founder of Reader’s Digest (1921), was born in St Paul, Minn.
(HN, 11/12/00)(MC, 11/12/01)
1889 Nov 14, Jawaharlal Nehru
(d.1964), Indian nationalist leader (1947-1964), was born. "A man who
is afraid will do anything."
(AP, 9/27/97)(HN, 11/14/00)(MC, 11/14/01)
1889 Nov 14, Nellie Bly, the pen
name of journalist Elizabeth Cochran, sailed from New York to begin her
record-breaking 24,899-mile trip around the world--a journey that would
end on January 25, 1890. Cochran had become a reporter for the
Pittsburgh Dispatch at age 18 and adopted the pen name "Nellie Bly"
from a popular song by Stephen Foster. Her six-month series of stories
from Mexico attracted the attention of Joseph Pulitzer and, in 1887,
she went to work for Pulitzer's New York World. Feigning insanity,
Nellie once had herself committed to the Blackwell's Island mental
hospital and then wrote an expose that brought about needed reforms.
The around-the-world trip originated in an attempt to beat the Jules
Verne's fictional hero Phineas Fogg's 80-day journey. Millions of
people followed the adventures of the plucky reporter through stories
posted back to the World at every stop. Tremendous celebrations greeted
Nellie when she arrived in New York. Her trip lasted 72 days, six hours
and eleven minutes--a record that would stand until the Graf Zeppelin
circled the globe in 20 days, four hours and fourteen minutes in 1929.
(AP, 11/14/97)(HNPD, 11/14/98)
1889 Nov 15, In Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, Emperor Dom Pedro II was overthrown and military officers
established a republic.
(AP, 11/15/97)(WSJ, 4/6/06, p.D8)
1889 Nov 16, George S. Kaufman,
American playwright and screenwriter, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. His
plays included "Dinner at Eight," "You Can't Take it With You" and "The
Man Who Came to Dinner."
(HN, 11/16/99)(MC, 11/16/01)
1889 Nov 17, The Union Pacific
Railroad Co. began direct, daily railroad service between Chicago and
Portland, Ore., as well as Chicago and San Francisco.
(AP, 11/17/97)
1889 Nov 20, Edwin Hubble
(d.1953), American astronomer, was born. He proved that there are other
galaxies far from our own.
(HN, 11/20/98)(WSJ, 7/25/00, p.A20)
1889 Nov 20, Gustav Mahler's 1st
Symphony premiered.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1889 Nov 23, The first jukebox
made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. The
contraption consisted of an Edison tinfoil phonograph with four
listening tubes and a coin slot for each tube.
(AP, 11/23/97)
1889 Nov 27, 1st permit issued to
drive a car through Central Park, NYC, was issued to Curtis P. Brady.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1889 Dec 6, Jefferson Davis (81),
the first and only president of the Confederate States of America
(1861-1865), died in New Orleans. In 2001 William J. Cooper Jr.
authored "Jefferson Davis, American."
(AP, 12/6/97)(SSFC, 1/28/01, Par p.12)(MC, 12/6/01)
1889 Dec 7, Gilbert and Sullivan’s
"Gondoliers," premiered in London.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1889 Dec 12, Robert Browning (77),
English poet (Ring & Book), died.
(MC, 12/12/01)
1889 Dec 24, Daniel Stover and
William Hance patented a bicycle with back pedal brake.
(MC, 12/24/01)
1889 Dec, The poem Clancy of the
Overflow by Banjo Paterson 1st appeared in the Christmas edition of
Australia’s Bulletin magazine.
(NG, 8/04, p.10)
1889 Roger Adams, American
chemist, was born. Adamsite, a yellow crystalline compound used
dispersed in air as a poisonous gas, is named after him.
(WUD, 1994 p.16)
1889 Marc Chagall, painter, was
born in Vitebsk, Belarus. He grew up here in a traditional Jewish
family and studied for two years in St. Petersburg after showing a good
gift for draftsmanship. He left for Paris with the help of a wealthy
benefactor in 1910. [see 1887-1985]
(WSJ, 5/11/95, p. A-14)
1889 Van Gogh painted "The
Gardener," while a patient in St. Remy-de-Provence as well as “Starry
Night.” He also did "Wheatfield with a Reaper" and "Crab on Its Back"
in this year.
(SFC, 5/21/98, p.A14)(SFC, 1/18/99, p.B1)(WSJ,
8/14/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/18/08, p.W12)
1889 Pierre Bonnard created his
3-panel screen "Marabout and Four Frogs."
(WSJ, 3/27/00, p.A20)
1889 Joaquin Maria Machado de
Assis (1839-1908), mulatto writer wrote "Dom Casmurro." The Oxford
Library of Latin America published a new edition in 1998.
(WSJ, 2/3/98, p.A20)
1889 Andrew Carnegie,
Scottish-born American industrialist, authored his essay “Gospel of
Wealth,” a primer on why some people had so much money and how to give
it away.
(SSFC, 10/22/06, p.M3)
1889 Norwegian Knut Hamsun wrote
"From the Cultural Life in Modern America."
(SFEC, 4/20/97, DB p.47-49)
1889 William Temple Hornaday
published "The Extermination of the American Bison."
(ON, 3/02, p.9)
1889 J.J. Thomas (1840-1889)
authored “Froudacity,” an attack on the writings about the West Indies
of English historian J. Anthony Froude. The Trinidad-born,
self-educated black intellectual, wrote the work during a visit to
London where he died of TB.
(WSJ, 10/4/05,
p.D8)(www.wwnorton.com/nael/victorian/topic_4/thomas.htm)
1889 Oscar Wilde wrote his novella
“The Portrait of Mr. W.H.”
(WSJ, 7/8/06, p.P8)
1889 National Geographic depicted
the area of Ashville, N.C. and inaugurated its famed map series. In
1998 a complete set of NG maps was made available on CD-ROM by
Mindscape.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.D3)
1889 The San Jose, Ca., City Hall,
an ornate Victorian style building, was constructed.
(SFC, 7/14/97, p.A15)
1889 The Greystone Cellars were
completed in the Napa Valley. The Christian Brothers later sold the
Cellars to Heublein.
(WCG, 7/95, p.22)
1889 Chris L. Rutt, a newspaperman
in St. Joseph, Missouri, began working on creating a self-rising
pancake mix. Within a year, he and two associates developed the first
pancake mix ever made. While seeking a name and package design for the
world's first self-rising pancake mix, Rutt saw a vaudeville team known
as Baker and Farrell whose act included Baker singing the catchy song
"Aunt Jemima" dressed as a Southern mammy. Inspired by the wholesome
name and image, Rutt appropriated them both to market his new pancake
mix.
(www.auntjemima.com/aj_history/)
1889 The modern pizza was
reportedly invented by a Neopolitan named Raffaele Esposito. [see 1830]
(SFEC,11/16/97, Z1 p.5)
1889 The federal government passed
stricter game laws when only 551 buffalo remained. By 1902, federal
efforts to prevent the extinction of the American buffalo were
beginning to pay off, with more than 1,000 head thriving in protected
herds. While the buffalo, often 10 feet long and weighing about 2,000
pounds, were hunted by the Plains Indians as their main source of food,
clothing, weapons and shelter, massive herds continued to roam the
Plains until European settlers began hunting them almost to extinction.
(HNPD, 8/21/98)(HNQ, 10/29/98)
1889 The Great Sioux Reservation
of the Dakotas was dismembered into 6 parts.
(Econ, 10/15/05, p.34)
1889 New York first used paper
ballots. Victoria, Australia, had begun using paper ballots in 1856.
(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A1)
1889 The San Francisco Examiner
sent out reporter Allen Kelly to dispel the myth that grizzlies were
extinct in California. After 3 months he saw only one and failed to
capture it and was fired by Citizen Hearst via Western Union. Kelly
later wrote "Bears I Have Met—and Others." He later found a bear
captured on Gleason Mountain by a Mexican known as Mateo. The bear,
named Monarch, was brought back to SF and housed in a "pleasure garden
near Dolores and Market streets."
(Pac. Disc., summer, ‘96, p.16,17)
1889 The North Pacific Coast
Railroad established a train station in Marin County called Manzanita
atop a shell mound site previously settled by coastal Miwok Indians. In
1906 a liquor license was granted for an establishment there called
Manzanita Villa and in 1916 a building was erected for a hotel and
dance hall by Thomas, James and George Moore, SF liquor and cigar
dealers. In 1947 new owners built a motel behind the building and
renamed it “The Fireside.” In 1957 2 skeletons of American Indians were
found during renovation. In 2008 the site was re-developed as a new
affordable housing complex.
(SFC, 4/21/08, p.B2)
1889 The Hills of Peace (Home of
Peace) and Hills of Eternity Jewish cemeteries were established in
Lawndale (Colma), Ca.
(GTP, 1973, p.45)(www.colmahistory.org/History.htm)
1889 Seattle-based Washington
Mutual Inc., was founded. During the economic crises in 2008 it became
the largest ever US bank to fail.
(AP, 9/26/08)
1889 The dexterity game "Pigs in
Clover" was built by Charles Crandall. It dared a player to move little
balls into a center pen.
(SFC, 9/10/02, p.A15)
1889 The American Cotton Oil
Company succeeded the American Cotton Oil Trust.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1889 The first commercial
transparent roll film, perfected by George Eastman and his research
chemist, was put on the market. This flexible film made possible the
development of Thomas Edison's motion picture camera in 1891. A new
corporation, The Eastman Company, was formed, taking over the assets of
the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company.
(www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/about/chrono1.shtml)
1889 Louis Frederick Nonnast (41),
a German immigrant (1865), had his own Chicago furniture factory by
this time. In 1914 the firm was renamed Louis F. Nonnast & Sons.
(SFC, 8/31/05, p.G3)
1889 The Tifflin Glass Co. was
founded in Tifflin, Ohio. It became part of U.S. Glass in the 1920s and
started making figural lamps.
(SFC, 12/23/96, z-1 p.5)
1889 In Toledo, Ohio, the W.I.
Libbey & Son Co. made a pattern of milk glass that resembled ears
of corn.
(SFC,11/19/97, Z1 p.7)
1889 Harry David Lee started H.D.
Lee Mercantile in Kansas.
(SSFC, 8/20/06, p.M4)
1889 The steam elevator began to
be supplanted by electric power.
(HT, 5/97, p.23)
1889 John Alexander MacWilliam,
Scottish physiologist, discovered that he could restore heart rhythms
in cats using a metronome and a needle electrode. His work went
unrecognized until his paper on the subject resurfaced in 1972.
(Econ, 3/7/09, TQ p.25)
1889 There was a major flu
epidemic this year. Virologists in 2002 attempted to gather viral
tissue from frozen grave sites in Siberia.
(SFCM, 2/17/02, p.27)
1889 W.K. Brooks published a
technical article on the "Lucayans," the original inhabitants of the
Bahamas.
(NH, 11/96, p.26)
1889 Seattle, Wa., burned to the
ground.
(WSJ, 9/19/95, p.A-1)(ST, 5/20/04, p.A1)
1889 Five people were shot dead in
Dodge City, Kansas, this year.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Z1p.8)
1889 Ella Watson of Sweetwater,
Wyo., was hanged for rustling cattle.
(SFEC, 1/19/97, Z-1 p.6)
1889 Argentina established a
reputation for having a troubled currency. After a few years Finance
Minister Ernesto Tornquist put the country on a gold standard and
limited the issue of money to the holdings in the treasury. The economy
expanded to become one of the leading economies in the world.
(WSJ, 2/28/97, p.A15)
1889 Hendrik Baekeland (b.1863),
Belgian professor of natural science, sailed for America.
(ON, 9/05, p.10)
1889 The British Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds was founded.
(www.infomat.net/infomat/rd741/rd1/database/rspb/index.asp)
1889 In New Brunswick, Canada, the
Algonquin Hotel was built at the seaside resort of St. Andrews.
(SFEC, 7/30/00, p.T5)
1889 In Canada a dispute with
Manitoba on territory in northwest Ontario was settled on behalf of
Ontario.
(www.canadiana.org/citm/themes/constitution/constitution13_e.html)
1889 In Canada a telegraph line
connected Victoria to India by way of an undersea cable from Bamfield.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.C8)
1889 Canada’s Bank of Nova Scotia
opened a branch in Jamaica.
(Econ, 3/29/08, p.50)
1889 In Cuba Friar Jose Olallo
Valdes (b.1829), a member of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God,
died. He earned the nickname, "father of the poor,” by caring for the
needy and chronically ill. In 2008 he was beatified in the first
ceremony of its kind on Cuban soil.
(AP, 11/30/08)
1889 The first real constitution
was promulgated for Japan.
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 215)
1889 Nintendo of Japan was founded
by the great-grandfather of President Hiroshi Yamauchi to produce
hand-painted Japanese flower cards. A book about Nintendo was later
written by David Sheff.
(Hem, 4/96, p.29)(SFC, 10/11/97, p.A19)
1889 Prussia under Chancellor Otto
von Bismarck adopted old-age and invalidity pensions. Prussian average
life expectancy was about 45.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)(Econ, 6/27/09, p.18)
1889 In southern Africa [later
Rhodesia, then Zimbabwe] Cecil Rhodes and his cronies conned King
Lobengula into signing away his powers over the Ndebele kingdom.
Lobengula’s father, Mzilikazi, founded the Ndebele nation and was
buried in the Matopos Hills.
(WSJ, 12/9/98, p.A13)
1889 The young Ottoman army and
navy officers who revolted against the despotic sultan Abdulhamid,
known as the Young Turks, belonged to a secret society formed in 1889
called the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). Members of the
committee worked for the union of all the various nationalities of the
Ottoman Empire into a community of citizens with equal rights and
duties and progress toward constitutional government along European
lines.
(HNQ, 5/28/99)
1889-1890 Nellie Bly (1867-1922), famed muckraking
reporter for the New York World, was sent on a trip around the world by
Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and completed the trip in 72 days.
(WSJ,2/11/97, p.A20)(SFC, 4/28/97, p.B1)
1889-1890 In South Dakota, Sioux warrior Kicking Bear
became the leading spokesman for the new Indian religion, the "Ghost
Dance," which promised a return to ancient ways for a people
disheartened by reservation life. Kicking Bear continued to resist the
U.S. Army for several weeks after many of his fellow Sioux were killed
in the Massacre at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1990. Kicking Bird was
a Kiowa Chief. Bear’s Head was a Crow chief.
(HNQ, 12/24/99)
1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd President
of the US. He was quoted to say: "We Americans have no commission from
God to police the world."
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo)(SFC, 7/14/96, Z1 p.2)
1889-1893 John Wanamaker, Philadelphia merchant,
served as the US Postmaster-General in recognition of his services
during the election campaign of 1888. He introduced the Parcel Post
system.
{Pennsylvania, USA, Postage}
(http://tinyurl.com/ck74o)
1889-1893 Over a period of 42 months a string of
train robberies hit the Southern Pacific Railroad in the San Joaquin
Valley of California near the vicinity of Mussel Slough.
(Smith., 5/95, p.72)
1889-1937 Prof. John Wirth (d.2002) of Stanford
covered this period of Brazil in his book "Minas Gerais in the
Brazilian Federation."
(SSFC, 6/30/02, p.A29)
1889-1914 A series of small wars of position occurred
in various parts of Africa and Asia minor. These little conflicts
served to define frontiers and to exert pressure.
(V.D.-H.K.p.289)
1889-1933 Gao Qifeng, artist. He was a founder of the
Lingnan School, a group of artists and social activists bent on
modernizing Chinese painting.
(SFC, 4/22/97, p.D2)
1889-1944 Philip Guedalla, British writer: "History
repeats itself; historians repeat each other."
(AP, 7/24/99)
1889-1944 Thomas Midgely, Jr., chemist for General
Motors. He invented the chloro-fluorocarbons and the anti-knock
gasoline agent tetraethyl lead. He caught polio in early middle age and
invented a harness to help himself out of bed in the morning. Early in
November of 1944 he got tangled in the harness and strangled to death.
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.47)
1889-1945 Robert Benchley, American humorist: "For a
nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle,
and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing
around in line in front of windows, just waiting."
(AP, 9/18/97)
1889-1945 Emmy Esther Scheyer was a promoter and
collector of the Weimar artists known as the Blue Four. In 1998 the
book "The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee" was
edited by Vivian Endicott Barnett and Josef Helfenstein" to accompany
an exhibition.
(SFEC, 8/23/98, BR p.12)
1889-1950 Vaslav Nijinsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine,
and died in London. He was the pre-eminent ballet artist of his day and
at 20 became the protege and lover of Sergei Diaghilev. He spent some
time in psychotherapy during which he made a number of abstract
drawings. He went mad at age 29 and wrote a diary of his experiences.
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.E5)
1889-1953 Edwin P. Hubble, astronomer, discovered
that the more distant a galaxy seemed to be, the more its light was
shifted toward the lower frequencies. This is know as the Doppler
redshift, named after C.J. Doppler (1803-1853), an Austrian Physicist.
(WUB, 1995, p.426)
1889-1961 Soetsu Yanagi, Japanese artist. The
philosophically inclined aesthete and writer created the concept of
folk art and promoted its taste among the Japanese.
(SFC, 4/28/96, B-7)
1889-1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman: "A man
who is afraid will do anything." "Our chief defect is that we are more
given to talking about things than to doing them."
(AP, 9/27/97)(AP, 12/28/97)
1889-1973 Conrad Potter Aiken, American poet, was
born (Aug 5) and died (Aug 17) in Savannah, and was buried in the
Boneventure Cemetery.
(SFEC,11/30/97, p.T5)
1889-1989 In 1998 Harold Evans published "The
American Century," which recounts these 100 years with illustrations.
(SFEC, 10/11/98, Par p.19)(SFEC, 10/11/98, BR p.2)
1890 Jan 1, In Pasadena a parade
of flower-decorated horse and buggies was staged. It was followed by an
afternoon of public games on the "town lot" east of Los Robles between
Colorado and Santa Fe. The parade was intended to resemble a version of
the festival of roses in Nice, France.
(www.tournamentofroses.com/photogallery/timeline/TL-1890s.htm)
1890 Jan 4, Alfred G. Jodl, German
Wehrmacht general and chief of staff, was born.
(MC, 1/4/02)
1890 Jan 7, William B. Puris
patented a fountain pen.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1890 Jan 9, Karel Capek, Czech
writer and playwright, was born. He is best remembered for his play
R.U.R. which contained the first use of the word "robot."
(HN, 1/9/99)
1890 Jan 22, Fred Vinson,
Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1890 Jan 22, Jose Marti formed La
Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1890 Jan 25, The United Mine
Workers of America was founded.
(AP, 1/25/98)
1890 Jan 25, Reporter Nellie Bly
(Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World received a tumultuous
welcome home after she completed a round-the-world journey in 72 days,
6 hours, 11 minutes.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1890 Feb 2, Charles Correl, "Andy"
of the "Amos and Andy" radio program, was born.
(HN, 2/2/99)
1890 Feb 10, Boris Pasternak
(d.1960), Russian novelist and author, was born. His greatest novel,
Dr. Zhivago, was rejected for publication in the USSR "No single man
makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass
growing." [OS][see Feb 18]
(AP, 10/6/98)(HN, 2/10/99)
1890 Feb 10, Around 11 million
acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians, opened for settlement.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1890 Feb 15, Robert Ley, German
chemist, MP (NSDAP), was born.
(MC, 2/15/02)
1890 Feb 18, Boris L. Pasternak,
Russian poet, writer (Dr. Zhivago), was born. [ NS][see Feb 10]
(MC, 2/18/02)
1890 Feb 28, Vaslav Nijinsky,
ballet dancer (3/12 NS), was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He was the
pre-eminent ballet artist of his day and at 20 became the
protégé and lover of Sergei Diaghilev. He spent some time
in psychotherapy during which he made a number of abstract drawings.
Nijinsky died in 1950 in London. [see Mar 12]
(SFC, 9/29/97, p.E5)(MC, 2/28/02)
1890 Feb, Charles E. Kincaid,
correspondent for the Louisville Times, shot former Representative
William Taulbee, a democrat from Kentucky, at the Capital during an
argument over a scandal involving the lawmaker. Taulbee died ten days
later.
(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A6)
1890 Mar 1, 1st US edition of
Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) was published.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1890 Mar 9, Vyacheslav Molotov,
former Soviet Prime Minister and signer of a non-aggression pact with
Nazi Germany, was born.
(HN, 3/9/99)
1890 Mar 11, Vannevar Bush was
born. He developed the 1st electronic analogue computer.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1890 Mar 12, Vasav Nijinsky
(d.1950), Russian dancer, was born. He was considered the world's
greatest ballet dancer. [see Feb 28]
(HN, 3/12/99)
1890 Mar 18, The 1st US state
naval militia was organized in Massachusetts.
(MC, 3/18/02)
1890 Mar 20, Lauritz Melchior,
baritone, tenor (Met Opera), was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1890 Mar 20, Germany’s Kaiser
Wilhelm II fired republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1890 Mar 21, Austrian Jewish
communities were defined by law.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1890 Mar 28, Paul Whiteman,
orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club), was born in Denver, Co.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1890 Apr 6, Anthony Herman Gerard
Fokker (d.1939), aircraft pioneer, was born in Java.
(www.britannica.com)
1890 Apr 7, Marjory Stoneman
Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades), was born.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1890 Apr 11, Ellis Island was
designated as an immigration station.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1890 Apr 14, The First
International Conference of American States met in Washington, where
delegates agreed to form the International Union of American Republics,
a forerunner of the Organization of American States.
(AP, 4/14/08)
1890 Apr 25, J. Palisa discovered
asteroids #291 Alice & #292 Ludovica.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1890 May 2, The Oklahoma Territory
was organized.
(AP, 5/2/97)(HN, 5/2/98)
1890 May 5, Christopher Morley
(d.1957), author-journalist (Kitty Foyle), was born. "Religion is an
attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human
realities." "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated
but not signed." "Truth is not a diet but a condiment."
(HN, 5/5/01)(AP, 11/1697)(AP, 11/25/98)(AP, 1/19/99)
1890 May 6, Mormon Church
renounced polygamy. [see Sep 24]
(MC, 5/6/02)
1890 May 12, Louisiana legalized
prize fighting.
(SC, Internet, 5/12/97)
1890 May 19, Ho Chi Minh,
revolutionist and leader of North Vietnam (1946-1969), was born. He
fought the Japanese, French and United States to gain independence for
his country.
(HN, 5/19/99)(MC, 5/19/02)
1890 May 20, Beniamino Gigli,
tenor (Enzo-La Gioconda), was born in Italy.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1890 May 22, George Washington
Steele, on appointment by Pres. Benjamin Harrison, took the oath of
office as the 1st territorial governor (1890-1891) of Oklahoma.
(http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v020/v020p218.html)
1890 May 29, Francis de
Bourguignon, composer, was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1890 May, Vincent van Gogh arrived
in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, seeking a new life after a
year in a mental asylum. He embarked on an explosion of creativity,
producing more than 70 paintings within two months.
(AP, 6/12/07)
1890 Jun 1, The US census stood
at 62,622,250. The US government used the Jean Baptiste Pacard card
punch to tabulate the results of the census. Herman Hollerith designed
a system that used a machine with a sorter. Hollerith formed a firm
that eventually became IBM.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)(SFC, 8/5/97, p.A20)(WSJ, 10/15/01,
p.R23)(WSJ, 11/12/04, p.W10)
1890 Jun 2, Hedda Hopper, gossip
columnist (From Under My Hat), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1890 Jun 10, Sessue Hayakawa,
Japanese actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity), was born.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1890 Jun 16, Stan Laurel (d.1965),
entertainer, was born in England. He teamed up with Oliver Hardy
(Laurel & Hardy) to make over 100 comedy films.
(WUD, 1994 p.811)(HN, 6/16/01)(MC, 6/16/02)
1890 Jun 22, The SF Chronicle
trumpeted its new 10-story building at Kearny and Market, the first
steel-framed building in the West. It was designed by Burnham &
Root of Chicago. In 1924 the Chronicle moved to its new building at
Fifth and Mission. In 1962-1963 Home Mutual Savings and Loan draped the
De Young Building at 690 Market in metal. In 2004 planned renovations
included conversion to residential and hotel use.
(SFC, 3/17/04, p.C4)(SFC, 8/15/05, p.C5)(SFC,
1/17/09, p.E1)
1890 cJun, Vincent Van Gogh
painted his Portrait of Dr. Gachet. He described the painting in detail
to his brother and sister. A 2nd portrait of Dr. Gachet, held by the
Musee d'Orsay is a variant of the first and is suspected to be
unfinished by Van Gogh and completed by someone else.
(WSJ, 2/16/99, p.A20)
1890 Jul 2, Congress passed the
Sherman Antitrust Act. It put some teeth into earlier antitrust law. It
was initially used against labor unions and then came to be used
against businesses engaged in monopolistic practices.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D2)(AP, 7/2/97)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R48)
1890 Jul 3,
Idaho became the 43rd state of the US.
(HFA, ‘96, p.32)(AP, 7/3/97)
1890 Jul 10, Wyoming became the
44th state.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/98)
1890 Jul 13, John C. "Pathfinder"
Fremont (76), US explorer, governor (Arizona, California), died. He was
buried in obscurity in Sparkill, NY. Fremont (b.1830) was the 1st
Republican presidential candidate in 1856. In 1999 David Roberts
authored "A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Freemont and the Claiming
of the American West." In 2002 Tom Chaffin authored “Pathfinder: John
Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire.” In 2007 Sally
Denton authored “Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the
Couple Whose Power, Politics and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century
America.”
(WUD, 1994, p.567)(SFEC, 2/13/00, BR p.5)(SSFC,
12/22/02, p.M1)(SSFC, 7/1/07, p.M1)
1890 Jul 18, Charles Wilson, Pres.
of General Motors (1940-53), Sec. of Defense (1953-57), was born.
(MC, 7/18/02)
1890 Jul 20, Theda Bara, actress
(Love Goddesses), was born as Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnati.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1890 Jul 22, Rose Kennedy, mother
of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert and Edward Kennedy,
was born.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1890 Jul 27, Artist Vincent van
Gogh shot himself in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. He survived the impact,
but not realizing that his injuries were to be fatal, he walked back to
the Ravoux Inn. He died 2 days later.
(Econ, 10/31/09,
p.95)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh)
1890 Jul 29, Artist Vincent van
Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France,
while painting "Wheatfield with Crows." He spent his last 70 days in
the care of Dr. Gachet and 78 paintings have been attributed to this
period. Earlier in the year he painted his "Garden at Auvers." In 2009
his letters were published in a 6-volume edition titled: Vincent Van
Gogh: The Letters.” Earlier editions had appeared in 1914 and 1958.
(WSJ, 2/8/96, p.A-12)(SFC, 5/26/96, Z1 p.2)(WSJ,
2/16/99, p.A20)(AP, 7/29/07)(Econ, 10/31/09, p.95)
1890 Aug 5, Erich Kleiber,
conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1890 Aug 6, Cy Young gained the
first of his 511 major league victories as he pitched the Cleveland
Spiders to a win over the Chicago Colts. However, the score is a matter
of dispute, with some sources saying 6-1, and others saying 8-1.
(AP, 8/6/07)
1890 Aug 6, Convicted murderer
William Kemmler became the 1st person to be executed in the electric
chair. He was put to death at Auburn State Prison in New York for
murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe. In 2003 Jill Jonnes
authored "Empires of Light," and account of how Edison, Tesla and
Westinghouse brought electric power to public use. In 2003 Mark Essig
authored "Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death."
(AP, 8/6/97)(HN, 8/6/98)(MC, 8/6/02)(WSJ, 8/19/03,
p.D5)(Econ, 9/20/03, p.81)
1890 Aug 8, Daughters of American
Revolution (DAR) organized. [see Oct 11]
(MC, 8/8/02)
1890 Aug 12, Al Goodman Nikopol,
orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), was born in Russia.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1890 Aug 15, Jacques Ibert,
composer (Escales), was born in Paris, France.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1890 Aug 17, Harry Hopkins,
organized the Works Projects Administration (WPA) under President
Roosevelt, was born.
(HN, 8/17/98)
1890 Aug 20, H.P. Lovecraft
(d.1937), author of horror tales, was born in Providence, RI.
(HN, 8/20/98)(SSFC, 2/27/05, p.B1)
1890 Aug 21, Bill Henry,
newscaster (Who Said That?), was born in SF, Calif.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1890 Aug 24, Jean Rhys, author of
"Wild Sargasso Sea," was born.
(HN, 8/24/00)
1890 Aug 27, Man Ray (d.1976) was
born as Emmanuel Radinski in Philadelphia, Pa. A painter and
photographer, he and Marcel Duchamp founded the Dadaism movement.
(Reuters, 8/28/01)
1890 Sep 1, The 1st baseball
tripleheader was between Boston and Pittsburgh.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1890 Sep 9, Colonel Harland
Sanders (d.1980), originator of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food
restaurants, was born in Henryville, Ind.
(HN, 9/9/98)(www.born-today.com/Today/09-09.htm)
1890 Sep 10, Franz Werfel, author
(40 Days of Musa Dagh), was born in Austria.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1890 Sep 13, Cecil Rhodes'
colonies hoisted the Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1890 Sep 15, Agatha Christie,
English writer of mystery novels, was born. Her books included "Death
on the Nile" and "And Then There Were None."
(HN, 9/15/99)
1890 Sep 15, Claude McKay, poet
and novelist, was born. He was part of the Harlem Renaissance.
(HN, 9/15/00)
1890 Sep 25, President Benjamin
Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park. Sequoia
National Park, the nation’s 2nd oldest, was created by Congress. The
army was assigned park patrol duty.
(AP, 9/25/99)(SFC, 7/21/96, p.T3)(SFC, 2/1/03, p.A15)
1890 Sep 25, Congress established
California’s Yosemite National Park.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1890 Sep 25, Wilford Woodruff,
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued a
Manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy. The Mormons
renounced the practice of polygamy after six decades in exchange for
statehood for Utah. Smith’s revelation that God authorized polygamy
remained in Article 132 of the church’s Doctrine and Covenants.
(SFC, 8/6/98, p.A11)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)(SSFC,
2/25/07, p.A4)(AP, 9/25/07)
1890 Oct 1, Congress created the
Weather Bureau.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1890 Oct 1, Congress passed the
McKinley Tariff Act, which raised tariffs to a record level.
(AP, 10/1/97)
1890 Oct 1, Yosemite National
Park, created by Congress, was dedicated in California.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Z1 p.4)(HN, 10/1/98)
1890 Oct 2, Julius Henry "Groucho"
Marx (d.1977), American comedian, was born. Although there is some
discrepancy about the exact date, Groucho was most likely born on this
date in New York. He later went on to host the television quiz show
"You Bet Your Life." He began singing as a boy and then performed
wisecracking comedy on stage and screen with his brothers (Chico,
Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo). Groucho also had radio shows, wrote books and
screenplays, and became the most famous Marx Brother for his mustached,
cigar-smoking persona and lines like, "I sent the club a wire stating,
‘please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that
will accept me as a member.’" "There’s one way to find out if a man is
honest—ask him. If he says ‘yes,’ you know he is crooked." Groucho Marx
died in 1977.
(SFEC, 5/25/97, p.C15)(HNPD, 10/2/98)(AP, 10/2/97)
1890 Oct 8, Edward Vernon
Rickenbacker (d.1973) was born in Columbus, Ohio. He became America’s
"Ace of Aces" in World War I with more than 20 kills. Rickenbacker was
already a famous race car driver when he entered World War I at age 28.
Although he was considered too old to become an aviator, "Rick,"
ultimately won the Medal of Honor for his wartime exploits. "If a thing
is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. ... The guarantee of
continuity is quality."
(HNPD, 10/7/98)(AP, 10/8/98)(HN, 10/8/98)
1890 Oct 11, The Daughters of the
American Revolution (DAR) was founded in Washington, D.C.
(AP, 10/11/97)
1890 Oct 13, Conrad Richter,
novelist and short story writer, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1890 Oct 14, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
34th president of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas.
(AP, 10/14/97)(HN, 10/14/98)
1890 Oct 16, Michael Collins
(d.1922), Irish revolutionist, was born.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1890 Oct 19, Richard Francis
Burton (b.1821), explorer, British consul, translator, died. In 1893
Lady Burton published a biography of her late husband.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6445)
1890 Oct 23, Borodin's Opera
"Prince Igor" was produced posthumously in St. Petersburg.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1890 Oct 26, Collodi, [Carlo
Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), died.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1890 Oct 30, Emperor Meiji issued
the Imperial Rescript on Education to illustrate the moral principles
that each citizen was to follow.
(Econ, 1/22/05,
p.39)(www.danzan.com/HTML/ESSAYS/meiji.html)
1890 Nov 8, Cesar-Auguste Franck
(67), Belgian organist and composer (Symphony in D), died.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1890 Nov 11, D. McCree patented a
portable fire escape.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1890 Nov 22, Charles de Gaulle
(d.1970), French general and president (1958-1969), was born in Lille,
France. "Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men
are great only if they are determined to be so."
(AP, 11/22/97)(AP, 11/22/98)(HN, 11/22/98)
1890 Nov 23, Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg separated from the Netherlands.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1890 Nov 29, The first Army-Navy
football game was played, at West Point, New York. Navy defeated Army
by a score of 24-to-nothing.
(AP, 11/29/00)
1890 Nov 29, The Imperial Diet,
forerunner of Japan's national legislature, opened its first session,
four days after its members were summoned by Emperor Meiji.
(AP, 11/29/99)
1890 Dec 5, Fritz Lang (d.1976),
film director, was born. His work included "Metropolis," "M," and "The
Big Heat."
(WSJ, 4/3/00, p.A46)(HN, 12/5/00)
1890 Dec 5, Berlioz' opera "Les
Troyens," premiered in Karlsruhe.
(MC, 12/5/01)
1890 Dec 13, Marc Connelly,
playwright, actor, director and journalist (The Green Pastures), was
born.
(HN, 12/13/00)
1890 Dec 15, Sioux Indian Chief
Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River,
S.D., during a fracas with Indian police [US troops]. In an attempt to
arrest Sitting Bull at his Standing Rock, South Dakota, cabin, shooting
broke out and Lt. Bullhead shot the great Sioux leader. The killing of
Indian leader Sitting Bull was one factor that led to the Wounded Knee
Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The reservation
was left in disarray when Sioux leader Sitting Bull was killed by
Indian police.
(WUD, 1994, p.1680)(AP, 12/15/97)(HN, 12/15/98)(HNQ,
1/5/99)
1890 Dec 18, Edwin Howard
Armstrong, radio pioneer and inventor of FM, was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1890 Dec 19, Start of Sherlock
Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet."
(MC, 12/19/01)
1890 Dec 26, Heinrich Schliemann
(86), German businessman and archaeologist, died. He discovered the
site of ancient Troy in 1870-1871.
(NH, 4/96, p.48)(MC, 12/26/01)
1890 Dec 28, As Big Foot, another
Sioux leader, led his tribe away from the reservation they were
surrounded by 7th Cavalry troops at Wounded Knee Creek. The next
morning, when the cavalry tried to disarm the Sioux, shots rang out and
during the next 6 hours, 146 Sioux men, women and children, including
Big Foot, were killed. The 7th Cavalry lost 30 killed.
(HNQ, 1/5/99)
1890 Dec 29, The last major
conflict of the Indian wars took place at Wounded Knee Creek in South
Dakota after Colonel James W. Forsyth of the 7th Cavalry tried to
disarm Chief Big Foot and his followers. Seventy-year-old Sioux chief
Big Foot was killed by the 7th U.S. Cavalry during the massacre at
Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890. Three days later his body was found
frozen where he had been killed. The South Dakota reservation had been
left in disarray when Sioux leader Sitting Bull was killed by Indian
police on December 15, and as Big Foot led his tribe away from the
reservation on December 28, they were surrounded by 7th Cavalry troops.
The next morning, when the cavalry tried to disarm the Sioux, shots
broke out and during the next 6 hours, 146 Sioux men, women and
children were killed. The 7th Cavalry lost 30 killed. The Wounded Knee
massacre took place in South Dakota as some 300 Sioux Indians were
killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
(HFA, '96, p.44)(AP, 12/29/97)(HN, 12/29/98)(HNPD,
12/29/98)
1890 Dec 31, Ellis Island, NYC,
opened as a US immigration depot.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1890 Cezanne began his still-life
painting "Still Life with a Ginger jar and Eggplants." He also created
his watercolor "Tree Study."
(WSJ, 6/4/97, p.A16)(WSJ, 2/6/00, p.A16)
1890 Leon Frederic, Belgian
painter, began his work "The Stream," a vast triptych of thousands of
naked babies frolicking in water. He completed it in 1899.
(WSJ, 2/16/00, p.A14)
1890 Van Gogh painted "A Woman
from Arles" shortly before his suicide. He also painted "Thatched Huts
of Cordeville."
(SFC, 5/21/98, p.A14)(SFC, 5/25/99, p.C1)
1890 Claude Monet painted "Field
of Poppies."
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.D1)
1890 Paul Signac (1863-1935),
French neo-impressionist pointillist painter, began his work "Portrait
of Felix Feneon, Opus 217" (1890-1891).
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A24)
1890 Alfred Sisley painted "The
Alley of the Poplars." In 1998 it was stolen from the French Fine Arts
Museum of Nice.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.B7)
1890 Daisy Ashford (9) wrote a
novel for her ailing mother titled “The Young Visiters.” Discovered 29
years later, it was turned into a real book and became a British
classic.
(SFC, 11/1/04, p.E1)
1890 Agnes M. Clerke published
"System of the Stars," a popular work on astronomy.
(NH, 10/98, p.87)
1890 Joseph Conrad published "Lord
Jim."
(WSJ, 4/24/98, p.W1)
1890 Arthur Conan Doyle’s 2nd
Sherlock Holmes novel, “The Sign of Four,” was published.
(ON, 3/06, p.11)
1890 George Grove published a
4-volume compilation of musical knowledge.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, DB p.49)
1890 William James authored his
2-volume work: “The Principles of Psychology.”
(WSJ, 2/23/08, p.W8)
1890 Alfred Thayer Mahan
(1840-1914), American Navy officer, authored “The Influence of Sea
Power Upon History: 1660-1783.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thayer_Mahan)(Econ, 6/13/09, p.48)
1890 Alfred Marshall, English
economist, published his "Principles of Economics," considered the
bible of British economics. He stressed that the output and price of a
good are determined by supply as well as demand.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R20)
1890 Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914),
Danish-born author and photographer, published “How the Other Half
Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.”
(ON, 3/03,
p.7)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAriis.htm)
1890 Leo Tolstoy wrote his novel
"The Kreutzer Sonata."
(WUD, 1994, p.795)
1890 P.I. Tchaikovsky composed his
opera "Queen of Spades." It was first performed in St. Petersburg at
the Marinsky theater.
(BFST, 1937, p.473)
1890 The first production of
"Sleeping Beauty" was made.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, DB p.48)
1890 The gospel railroad song:
"Life’s a Railway to Heaven," was first published.
(WSJ, 8/21/97, p.A12)
1890 The Literary Digest, a US
general-interest weekly, was founded.
(WSJ, 10/2/06, p.B1)
1890 The Michigan Daily, a campus
newspaper at U of M, began publishing.
(MT, Fall. ‘97, p.18)
1890 William Sheppard (b.1865 in
Virginia) left the US for missionary work in Congo. In 2002 Pagan
Kennedy authored "Black Livingstone: A True Tale of African Adventure."
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.M1)
1890 The Century Magazine
published "Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California" by Guadalupe
Vallejo, niece of Gen. Mariano Vallejo.
(SFC, 11/21/03, p.I14)
1890 The Thatcher Hotel, later the
Hopland Inn, was built in Hopland, Ca.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.C1)
1890 In California Katherine Layne
Curran and Townshend S. Brandegee founded the botanical journal, Zoe.
(PacDis, Winter ’97, p.26)
1890 The Native Sons of the Golden
West dedicated the John [James Wilson] Marshall (d.1885) Monument on a
hill overlooking Coloma, for the man who discovered gold in California.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.T3)
1890 The Dominican College of San
Rafael was founded. It was associated with women’s education until
1971, when a transition to accept males was completed under Sister M.
Samuel Conlan (d.2004).
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.W21)(SFC, 7/14/04, p.B7)
1890 Lincoln, a railhead in the
Sierra foothills, was incorporated.
(SFC, 4/25/03, A22)
1890 The town of Rodeo, just south
of the Carquinez Strait, was named.
(SFC, 10/22/03, p.A23)
1890 The Sunset oil field in Kern
County, California, and the Coalinga field in Fresno County were
discovered.
(SSFC, 10/29/06, p.F6)
1890 In California the first
opossums were released by humans in Los Angeles County about this time.
Tow more releases were documented in 1910 and 1924.
(SFC, 11/26/08, p.G3)
1890 Unable to raise the money to
promote Aunt Jemima pancake mix, Chris L. Rutt and his associates sold
their company to R.T. Davis Mill and Manufacturing Company, which
promoted the new product at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
in 1893. The company hired Nancy Green (d.1923), a famous
African-American cook born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, to play the
part of Aunt Jemima and demonstrate the pancake mix. In 1917, Aunt
Jemima was redrawn as a smiling, heavy-set black housekeeper with a
bandanna wrapped around her head.
(www.toptags.com/aama/bio/women/ngreen.htm)
1890 Frank and Charles Menches
included a recipe for the first known chopped-beef sandwich called a
"hamburger." They named it after the town of Hamburg, N.Y.
(SFC, 6/6/98, p.E3)
1890 Kenton Hardware Manufacturing
Co. was founded in Kenton, Ohio, to make locks. Within a few year the
company began making toys.
(SFC, 5/28/08, p.G2)
c1890 Golf balls began to be made
of a rubber thread wound around a solid rubber core.
(SFEC, 6/14/98, p.A12)
1890 John Montgomery Ward led
baseball player to form the Players League in opposition to the
National League. The league lasted a year. In 1999 Bryan Di Salvatore
authored "A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery
Ward."
(SFEC, 10/3/99, BR p.4)
1890 The US census categorized the
population as "White, Black, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, Chinese,
Japanese, and Indian."
(SFC,12/26/97, p.A21)
1890 The US government sold its
buildings at Fort Laramie and the site fell into disrepair until
rescued by the National Park Service.
(HT, 3/97, p.43)
1890 The US Bureau of Census
declared that there was no longer any difference between "frontier" and
"settlements."
(SFC, 6/12/99, p.B3)
1890 A tradition of rivalry began
between the Army and Navy Academies.
(WSJ, 12/9/96, p.A12)
1890 The Louisiana state
Legislature passed the Louisiana Separate Car Act, which called for
railroad companies to provide equal but separate accommodations for
white and colored races.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-6)(ON, 11/03, p.5)
1890 The US Board of Geographic
Names began a primitive database of US place names.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A20)
1890 Mary Harris Jones (aka Mother
Jones) helped organize the United Mine Workers with the slogan "Join
the union, boys."
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)
1890 A Congress of world Socialist
parties selected May 1 as Int'l. Workers Day to support the US labor
struggle.
(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.C7)
1890 Israel C. Russell, sponsored
by the National Geographic Society, returned from an expedition to Mt.
St. Elias, Alaska, with fossil bearing rocks.
(NG, 12/97, p.1)
1890 The railroad arrived to St.
Michaels on the Chesapeake Bay.
(SMBA, 1996)
1890 The Canton Art Metal Co. was
founded [may be 1880] and specialized in institutional furniture
designed to last longer than wood furniture.
(SFC, 4/1/98, Z1 p.7)
1890 American Tobacco was formed
by James B. Duke as a consolidation of the principal cigarette
factories in the US.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1890 Distilling and Cattle Feeding
company was formed as a successor to the Distillers and Cattle Feeders
Trust. It was broken up in the late 1890s and a handful of operations
continued under the umbrella of American Spirits Manufacturing Co.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1890 North American Co. was formed
and controlled street railways, natural gas and electricity businesses
up to 1955.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, R45)
1890 In Chicago Henry C. Niemann
organized the H.C. Niemann & Co. to make tables. In 1909 the
company moved to the 1800 block of Rockwell Street. It closed in 1929.
(SFC, 5/14/08, p.G6)
1890 The Orinoco Furniture Company
was started by the Rohminger brothers in Columbus, Indiana. It was sold
in 2 years to a group headed by Harvey Lincoln. The Lincoln Chair Co.
went out of business in the 1930s.
(SFC, 1/29/97, Z1 p.2)
1890 The Pacific Coast Borax
Company, a United States mining company, was founded by the American
borax magnate Francis Marion Smith.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Borax_Company)
1890 Cook, Baker & Co was
founded in Allegan, Mich., to make wood architectural products. The
name changed to Baker & Co. in 1903 and later to Baker Furniture
Inc. In 1986 it became part of Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis.
(SFC, 12/5/07, p.G2)
1890 Parker Brothers introduced
its board game Across the Continent. The game was re-released a number
of times until 1952.
(SFC, 6/25/08, p.G3)
1890 Roseville Pottery did
business in Roseville and Zanesville, Ohio, from 1890 to 1954.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.G3)
1890 The Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
was founded.
(WSJ, 11/2/04, p.A14)
1890 The Westmoreland Glass Co.
began making glass containers in Grapeville, Pa. Operations continued
to 1984.
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.G4)
1890 The tuberculin skin test (TST
or Mantoux) was developed.
(SFC, 3/24/04, p.B9)
1890 The star T Pyxidis flared up
as a recurrent novae. It recurred in 1902 and 1960.
(SCTS, p.1182)
1890 The population of Chicago was
nearly one million people.
(Hem., 7/95, p.77)
1890 The population of NYC at this
time was about 1.2 million with some 37,000 living in tenements.
(WSJ, 8/25/08, p.A11)
1890 The population of US buffalo
was reduced to 1,000.
(NH, 12/96, p.10)
1890 Eugene Schieffelin, a German
immigrant, released 40 pairs of European starlings in NYC’s Central
Park. By 1959 the birds reached the Pacific coast. To honor his new
homeland he had attempted to release every species of bird mentioned in
the plays of Shakespeare. In 2002 the starling population in North
America exceeded 200 million.
(HNQ, 5/1/02)(AH, 6/02, p.42)
1890 Mt. Logan, Canada’s highest
peak, was discovered by I.C. Russell on the first expedition sponsored
by the National Geographic Society.
(NG, Nov. 1985, B.C. Bishop, p.657)
1890 Woodsmen marched west to
Minnesota clearing forests of white pine, yellow birch, hemlock, maple,
and oak.
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.51)
1890 Junius Morgan, father of J.
Pierpont Morgan, died and left his son in charge of both the London and
New York Morgan firms.
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A24)
1890 John T. Wood, archeologist,
died at age 69. In 1869 he discovered the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus,
Turkey, built in 323BC. He authored "Discoveries at Ephesus" in 1877.
(ON, 11/00, p.5)
1890 Argentina defaulted on its
foreign debt and caused a near-collapse to Barings Bank.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R48)
1890 James F. Wiltshaw and
brothers J.A. Robinson and W.H. Robinson founded their Wiltshaw &
Robinson pottery in Staffordshire, England. Their pieces were marked
“Carlton Ware,” which became the company’s name in 1958. In 1973 it
began producing “Walking Ware.” In 1989 the company went into
receivership.
(SFC, 3/21/07, p.G2)
1890 In England Jenny Pipes,
convicted of being a scold, was sentenced to public humiliation and
underwent ducking in the Kenwater river by order of the Magistrates.
This was the last recorded use of the ducking stool, in which the
victim was strapped to a stool and plunged into water.
(WSJ, 1/18/08,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbrel)
1890 The French restaurant Tour
d’Argent began numbering its servings of Caneton Tour d’Argent, a meal
of pressed duck.
(WSJ, 5/15/96, p.A-12)
1890 French foreign legionnaires
massacred the amazonian army of Dahomey (Benin).
(Econ, 12/18/04, p.62)
1890 August Kuehne and Friedrich
Nagel founded the forwarding and commissioning business in 1890 in
Bremen, northern Germany, concentrating on cotton and consolidated
freight. By 2006 the company was a world leader in arranging seaborne
cargo.
(www.kn-portal.com/about/)(Econ, 6/17/06, Survey
p.12)
1890 The Home Rule movement of the
Irish Nationalist Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell was set back
when his love affair with Katherine O’Shea was revealed in the London
Times.
(WSJ, 9/3/96, p.A14)
1890 The Ecole Biblique of
Jerusalem, a research center for Biblical and archeological studies,
was founded.
(WSJ, 8/28/01, p.A12)
1890 In Jerusalem a small tract
known as Sergei's Courtyard, named for Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich,
a son of Czar Alexander II, was built. It became part of the larger
Russian Compound, most of which Israel purchased in 1963, when Israel
paid in oranges because it lacked hard currency. In 2008 Sergei's
Courtyard was handed back to Russia.
(AP, 10/7/08)
1890 Philippine brewer San Miguel
began making beer.
(WSJ, 4/9/09, p.B1)
1890 Anton Chekhov visited the
Russian penal colony at Sakhalin. The experience crystallized his
political awareness.
(SFEC, 5/31/98, p.8)
1890 The Marxist Armenian
Revolutionary Federation, called the Dashnaks, was founded in the
Russian Empire, in Tiflis (Georgia).
(http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/Armenia/justin.html)
1890 Bobsled racing was introduced
at St. Moritz, Switz.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, p.E14)
1890s William Vanderbilt spent
some $3-11 million on his Marble House in Newport, R.I.
(WSJ, 10/25/96, p.B10)
1890s The US federal government
purchase Plum Island, located off the tip of Long Island. It was used
as a fort during both world wars. An Army project for conversion to a
biological warfare lab was later halted and the island was turned over
to the Agriculture Dept.
(WSJ, 1/8/02, p.A8)
1890s The great land runs in the
US continued.
(SFC, 4/14/96, T-6)
1890s A rash of violent mining
strikes began in the West. Strikes in Colorado and Idaho were led by
the ultra-militant Western Federation of Miners.
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A20)
1890s A $5 silver note called
"Electricity" that showed a scantily clad female holding a light bulb
was taken out of circulation due to the drapery falling so low below
her waist.
(SFC, 4/30/97, p.B3)
1890s Beeman’s Chewing Gum came
out as a heartburn remedy.
(SFC, 6/30/96, Zone 1 p.5)
1890s Peanut Butter was invented
for people with missing teeth.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.8)
1890s In New Bern N.C., Pharmacist
Caleb Bradham produced Brad’s drink, a mixture of syrup and soda water,
as a digestive aid and energy booster. It became a hit and was renamed
in 1898 to Pepsi-Cola. The story of Pepsi, "Pepsi, 100 Years" was later
written by Bob Stoddard of Upland, Ca.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.B2)
1890s Turquoise Mountain, a sacred
place for native Americans in Arizona, was rediscovered by Anglo
prospectors, who then mined the semi-precious stone for over the next
50 years.
(SFC, 7/20/96, p.A7)
1890s Pierce's disease, spread by
the glassy-winged sharpshooter, destroyed the Southern California grape
industry.
(SFC, 9/1/99, Z1 p.4)(SFC, 5/20/00, p.A3)
1890s In Africa a great
rinderpest, a virus-caused distemper in cattle, occurred. Millions of
animals died including nearly 80% of all livestock. It raged across
Africa till the 1930s.
(NH, 6/96, p.16)
1890s Cultured pearls were
developed in Japan.
(WSJ, 5/14/96, p.A-17)
1890s In Malaysia a tin rush was
on and the elite gathered at the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.T3)
1890s British settlers led by
Cecil Rhodes marched north from South Africa and appropriated vast
stretches of arable land. The Shangaani people, a hunting tribe, were
gradually forced to become poachers after the British took control.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A12)(SFC, 8/10/98, p.A14)
1890s A rail line was established
between Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya, and became the Lunatic Express from
media speculation that the planners were insane.
(SSFC, 12/22/02, p.C4)
1890-1891 Paul Gauguin created his painting "Loss of
Virginity."
(WSJ, 4/12/04, p.D8)
1890-1892 Cezanne painted his oil on canvas: "Card
Players." It is part of the Dr. Barnes collection and on the Corbis CD.
[see 1972-1951, Barnes]
(Civil., Jul-Aug., ‘95, p.85)
1890-1895 George Washington Vanderbilt built his
Biltmore Estate, a 250-room mansion on 125,000 acres overlooking the
Blue Ridge Mountains. Richard Morris Hunt designed the home.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R37)
1890-1899 Two conspiratorial traditions crystallized
into their current form in Russia in the 1890s. Two publications had a
key role: On the right, the czar’s secret police forged "The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion," the standard text of anti-Semitism; on the
left, Lenin produced his main theoretical writings on imperialism.
(WSJ, 4/26/95, p.A-16)
1890-1900 Black River Falls, Wisc., was plagued by a
series of suicides, murders, financial ruin and bizarre eruptions of
violence. These events were described in the 1973 book "Wisconsin Death
Trip" by Michael Lesy. In 2000 a documentary film was completed based
on the book and this period.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.D1)
1890-1900 Australia experienced a big drought that
caused a major retreat and reassessment by farmers.
(AP, 5/24/05)
c1890-1910 Jim Crow, the regime of legalized
segregation, exclusion and disenfranchisement of black people in the
US, hardened into place.
(WSJ, 6/12/01, p.A20)
1890-1912 In France a 151-km. private railroad was
constructed from Nice to Digne above the River Var. It was brought
under state control in 1933 and again privatized in 1972.
(Hem., 1/97, p.116)
1890-1917 Some 2-3 black southerners were hanged,
burned at the stake, or quietly murdered every week to enforce
deference and submission to whites.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, BR p.4)
1890-1930 The California Plein Air movement in art
was based in outdoor scenes that captured the state’s colors and light.
Later Ruth Lilly Westphall edited "Plein Air Painters of California."
(SFEC, 8/9/98, p.B6)
1890-1930 This period marks the 3rd Great Awakening
in America according to Robert Fogel of the Univ. of Chicago, who
argued that America is undergoing its fourth religious revival and that
it started about 1960. This is from his Bradley lecture at the American
Enterprise Institute.
(WSJ, 10/6/95, p.A-10)
1890-1954 Edwin Howard Armstrong, engineer and
inventor, was known as the "Father of FM" or frequency modulation. In
1939 Armstrong perfected his system of static-free radio, which was
widely adopted in the U.S. and Europe. Born in New York in 1890,
Armstrong developed the superheterodyne circuit, basic to radio
receivers, in 1918. His super-regenerative circuit, devised in 1920,
was used in 2-way police and aircraft radio systems.
(HN, 5/12/99)
1890-1958 Elmer Davis, American news commentator:
"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."
(AP, 5/29/99)
1890-1960 Gene Fowler, American journalist and
author: "Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."
(AP, 5/6/97)
1890-1964 Idwal Jones, California writer. His work
included the classic novel "The Vineyard," set in Napa Valley with a
foreword by Robert Mondavi, and the non-fiction work "Vines in the Sun."
(SFEM,10/26/97, p.36)
1890-1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of
the US, was born on Oct 14. He was a general through World War II and
president from 1953-1961.
(HFA, ‘96, p.40)(AHD, 1971, p.418)
1890-1972 Gabriel Heatter, American radio
commentator: "Life is never so bad at its worst that it is impossible
to live; it is never so good at its best that it is easy to live."
(AP, 5/19/00)
1890-1976 Paul Strand, American photographer. He
documented the streets of New York City from 1915-1917 and did early
experiments in photographic abstraction.
(SFEM, 5/31/98, p.13)
1890-1980 Gerald W. Johnson, American journalist:
"What makes a leader—intelligence, integrity, imagination, skill: in
brief, statecraft? Not at all. It is the fact that the man has a
following."
(AP, 9/28/97)
1890-1980 Katherine Anne Porter, American author:
"Love is purely a creation of the human imagination ... the most
important example of how the imagination continually outruns the
creature it inhabits."
(AP, 7/30/97)
1890-1995 Rose Kennedy: "I have always believed that
God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. ... No matter
what, God wants us to be happy. He doesn’t want us to be sad. Birds
sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?"
(AP, 7/25/98)
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