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| Born : | 03/12/1890 | A Evert Taube, Swedish writer |
| Born : | 04/20/1890 | Adolf Sch„rf, president Austria |
| Born : | 02/18/1890 | Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born) |
| Born : | 09/15/1890 | Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on Orient Express) |
| Born : | 10/09/1890 | Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist/radio preacher |
| Born : | 08/12/1890 | Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour) |
| Born : | 09/24/1890 | Alan Herbert, England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen) |
| Born : | 01/04/1890 | Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff |
| Born : | 04/06/1890 | Andr‚ L Danjon, French astronomer |
| Born : | 04/06/1890 | Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider) |
| Born : | 07/11/1890 | Arthur W Tedder Van Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II) |
| Born : | 05/20/1890 | Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde) |
| Born : | 08/21/1890 | Bill Henry, SF Calif, newscaster (Who Said That?) |
| Born : | 12/08/1890 | Bohuslav Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti) |
| Born : | 02/18/1890 | Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago) |
| Born : | 02/10/1890 | Boris Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958) |
| Born : | 07/30/1890 | Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st) |
| Born : | 07/18/1890 | Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57) |
| Born : | 02/03/1890 | Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria Ill, actor (Calvin & Colonel) |
| Born : | 11/22/1890 | Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, Pres of France (1958-69) |
| Born : | 10/24/1890 | Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves) |
| Born : | 05/05/1890 | Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil) |
| Born : | 02/08/1890 | Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist, opponent of US colonialism |
| Born : | 09/15/1890 | Claude Mckaye, Jamaica/US author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo) |
| Born : | 10/13/1890 | Conrad Richter, writer (Light in the Forest) |
| Born : | 02/10/1890 | Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage) |
| Born : | 06/06/1890 | Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy) |
| Born : | 08/24/1890 | Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1912, 20) |
| Born : | 10/14/1890 | Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison Tx, (R) 34th Pres (1953-1961)/Gen (WW 2) |
| Born : | 05/02/1890 | E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary) |
| Born : | 10/08/1890 | Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I) |
| Born : | 03/03/1890 | Edmund Lowe, San Jose Calif, actor (Front Page Detective) |
| Born : | 02/18/1890 | Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington) |
| Born : | 12/18/1890 | Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM) |
| Born : | 06/21/1890 | Egon Schiele, Austrian painter |
| Born : | 06/12/1890 | Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist |
| Born : | 08/09/1890 | Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher |
| Born : | 08/05/1890 | Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46) |
| Born : | 08/11/1890 | Erich Wichman, fascist painter/sculptor |
| Born : | 09/22/1890 | Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher |
| Born : | 09/15/1890 | Frank Martin, Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax) |
| Born : | 06/01/1890 | Frank Morgan [Francis P Wupperman], US, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) |
| Born : | 09/10/1890 | Franz Werfel, Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh) |
| Born : | 01/22/1890 | Fred M Vinson, Ky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53) |
| Born : | 12/21/1890 | Fred M Vinson, US Supreme Court Justice (1946-53) |
| Born : | 09/23/1890 | Friedrich von Paul, German gen-field marshal (Netherlands) |
| Born : | 12/05/1890 | Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis) |
| Born : | 08/01/1890 | George II, king of Greece |
| Born : | 10/21/1890 | Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Brief of Liebe) |
| Born : | 10/02/1890 | Groucho Marx, [Julius], NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life) |
| Born : | 08/20/1890 | H.P. Lovecraft, US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness) |
| Born : | 09/09/1890 | Harland Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder/colonel |
| Born : | 08/17/1890 | Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law) |
| Born : | 06/02/1890 | Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry], US, gossip columnist (From under my hat) |
| Born : | 02/03/1890 | Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Problem of B”sen) |
| Born : | 10/18/1890 | Henri‰tte, [Agathe HM] de Beaufort, author (Rembrandt) |
| Born : | 11/02/1890 | Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist/senator |
| Born : | 10/03/1890 | Henry Hull, US, actor (Tobacco Road, Boys Town, High Sierra) |
| Born : | 05/23/1890 | Herbert Marshall, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes) |
| Born : | 05/19/1890 | Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969) |
| Born : | 11/17/1890 | Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs) |
| Born : | 02/09/1890 | Jacobus JP Auld, architect/co-founder (St˜l) |
| Born : | 08/15/1890 | Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales) |
| Born : | 11/01/1890 | James Barton, NJ, Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh) |
| Born : | 03/01/1890 | Jan Duiker, architect (Zonnestral) |
| Born : | 02/02/1890 | Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China) |
| Born : | 02/11/1890 | John PML de Vries, fairy tale writer |
| Born : | 03/26/1890 | Jozef Arras, Flemish writer |
| Born : | 12/29/1890 | Jozef Cantr‚, Flemish sculptor/wood carver |
| Born : | 01/09/1890 | Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined "robot" |
| Born : | 10/05/1890 | Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer |
| Born : | 05/15/1890 | Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools) |
| Born : | 05/26/1890 | Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits) |
| Born : | 01/09/1890 | Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co) |
| Born : | 03/20/1890 | Lauritz Melchior, Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (Natl Symphony) |
| Born : | 06/09/1890 | Leslie Banks, English actor/director (Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours) |
| Born : | 04/19/1890 | Lou Bandy, [Lodew˜k F Dieben], revue-artist (Look for the Sun) |
| Born : | 09/17/1890 | Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian ballerina |
| Born : | 08/27/1890 | Man Ray, US statues artist/photographer/movie (dada) |
| Born : | 12/13/1890 | Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please) |
| Born : | 02/24/1890 | Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man) |
| Born : | 12/22/1890 | Mark Tobey, US abstract painter (Broadway standard) |
| Born : | 03/24/1890 | Miguel Suriel, Neth Antillian writer (Muh‚ culpabel) |
| Born : | 01/12/1890 | Mordecai W Johnson, educator |
| Born : | 01/04/1890 | Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, communist parliament chairman |
| Born : | 08/05/1890 | Naum Gabo, Russian/US sculptor |
| Born : | 03/03/1890 | Norman Bethune, Canada, Doctor in Spain & China |
| Born : | 11/30/1890 | Oege Bakker, economist |
| Born : | 07/14/1890 | Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City) |
| Born : | 06/10/1890 | Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author |
| Born : | 10/16/1890 | Paul Strand, NYC, photographer (Native Land-1942) |
| Born : | 03/28/1890 | Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orch leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club) |
| Born : | 02/15/1890 | Robert Ley, German chemist/parliament member (NSDAP) |
| Born : | 07/22/1890 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted |
| Born : | 10/01/1890 | Stanley Holloway, London England, actor (Higgins-Our Man Higgins) |
| Born : | 08/30/1890 | S ndor Rem‚nyik, [V‚gv ri], Hungary, poet (Campfire) |
| Born : | 07/20/1890 | Theda Bara, actress (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra) [or 0729] |
| Born : | 03/11/1890 | Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer |
| Born : | 02/28/1890 | Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS) |
| Born : | 03/12/1890 | Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet master (NS) |
| Born : | 07/20/1890 | Verna Felton, Salinas Calif, actress (Hilda-December Bride) |
| Born : | 03/09/1890 | Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN) |
| Born : | 08/19/1890 | Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist |
| Died : | 01/18/1890 | Amadeus I FM, king of Spain (1870-73), dies |
| Died : | 12/29/1890 | Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee |
| Died : | 09/03/1890 | Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63 |
| Died : | 10/26/1890 | Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies |
| Died : | 09/18/1890 | Diuon Boucicauklt, [Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot], playwright, dies |
| Died : | 07/16/1890 | Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies |
| Died : | 12/26/1890 | Heinrich Schliemann, archaeologist (Trojan War), dies |
| Died : | 07/13/1890 | John C "Pathfinder" Fr‚mont, US explorer/governor. Arizona, dies at 76 |
| Died : | 04/08/1890 | Junius Morgan, philanthropist, dies at 76 |
| Died : | 10/23/1890 | Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies |
| Died : | 12/21/1890 | Niels W Gade, Danish composer, dies |
| Died : | 05/25/1890 | Rosa Bonheur, French painter, dies |
| Died : | 12/15/1890 | Sitting Bull, leader Hunkpapa indians (Little Big Horn), killed by US |
| Died : | 08/22/1890 | Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69 |
| Died : | 03/12/1890 | Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (Petroesjka), dies |
| Died : | 07/29/1890 | Vincent Van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France |
| Died : | 11/23/1890 | Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies |
| Died : | 09/03/1890 | Willem Linnig Jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies |
| Died : | 08/06/1890 | William Kemmler, US, 1st executed in electric chair |
| Special : | 07/20/1890 | "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing |
| Special : | 10/11/1890 | 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC) |
| Special : | 08/09/1890 | 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations |
| Special : | 11/29/1890 | 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point |
| Special : | 01/03/1890 | 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin |
| Special : | 03/01/1890 | 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published |
| Special : | 03/18/1890 | 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) |
| Special : | 09/01/1890 | 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh |
| Special : | 01/21/1890 | 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper |
| Special : | 05/18/1890 | 1st performance Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (Rome) |
| Special : | 05/17/1890 | 1st regular weekly comic paper (Comic Cuts) (England) |
| Special : | 11/27/1890 | 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation |
| Special : | 08/06/1890 | 1st use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder |
| Special : | 03/10/1890 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #289 Nenetta |
| Special : | 05/20/1890 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #293 Brasilia |
| Special : | 07/15/1890 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #294 Felicia |
| Special : | 08/19/1890 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #296 Phaetusa |
| Special : | 10/03/1890 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #300 Geraldina |
| Special : | 11/14/1890 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #302 Clarissa |
| Special : | 09/09/1890 | A Charlois discovers asteroids #297 Caecilia & #298 Baptistina |
| Special : | 10/15/1890 | Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham |
| Special : | 08/16/1890 | Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia |
| Special : | 01/02/1890 | Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer |
| Special : | 03/21/1890 | Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law |
| Special : | 09/25/1890 | Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif) |
| Special : | 08/06/1890 | Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game |
| Special : | 11/11/1890 | D McCree patents portable fire escape |
| Special : | 02/27/1890 | D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw |
| Special : | 10/11/1890 | Daughters of American Revolution forms |
| Special : | 08/08/1890 | Daughters of American Revolution organizes |
| Special : | 06/13/1890 | Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named |
| Special : | 09/23/1890 | Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning |
| Special : | 12/31/1890 | Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot |
| Special : | 03/20/1890 | General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded |
| Special : | 05/24/1890 | Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma |
| Special : | 06/27/1890 | George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantamweight) |
| Special : | 11/04/1890 | Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate |
| Special : | 07/03/1890 | Idaho admitted as 43rd US state |
| Special : | 03/20/1890 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #290 Bruna |
| Special : | 08/17/1890 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #295 Theresia |
| Special : | 10/06/1890 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #299 Thora |
| Special : | 11/16/1890 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #301 Bavaria |
| Special : | 04/25/1890 | J Palisa discovers asteroids #291 Alice & #292 Ludovica |
| Special : | 10/18/1890 | John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds |
| Special : | 01/22/1890 | Jos‚ Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC |
| Special : | 10/28/1890 | Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie |
| Special : | 05/12/1890 | Louisiana legalized prize fighting |
| Special : | 05/17/1890 | Mascagni Opera Cavalleria Rusticans 1st performed (Rome) |
| Special : | 10/06/1890 | Mormon Church outlaws polygamy |
| Special : | 05/06/1890 | Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)] |
| Special : | 01/25/1890 | National Afro-American League forms in Chicago |
| Special : | 12/16/1890 | Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN |
| Special : | 01/25/1890 | Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days) |
| Special : | 09/16/1890 | Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team the Packers |
| Special : | 10/23/1890 | Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg) |
| Special : | 06/09/1890 | Opera "Robin Hood" is produced (Chicago) |
| Special : | 05/17/1890 | Opera "Rustic Chivalry" is produced (Rome) |
| Special : | 03/02/1890 | Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) |
| Special : | 04/14/1890 | Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC) |
| Special : | 12/21/1890 | Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht" |
| Special : | 11/20/1890 | Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions |
| Special : | 11/04/1890 | Prince of Wales opens 1st underground (Station Stockwell, London) |
| Special : | 02/20/1890 | R Luther discovers asteroid #288 Glauke |
| Special : | 07/02/1890 | Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies |
| Special : | 07/20/1890 | Snow & hail in Calais, ME |
| Special : | 12/19/1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG) |
| Special : | 03/24/1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) |
| Special : | 10/09/1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League" |
| Special : | 09/25/1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG) |
| Special : | 05/02/1890 | Territory of Oklahoma created |
| Special : | 05/24/1890 | Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London |
| Special : | 09/19/1890 | Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 |
| Special : | 12/29/1890 | US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD |
| Special : | 06/01/1890 | US census at 62,622,250 |
| Special : | 09/26/1890 | US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3› piece |
| Special : | 01/25/1890 | United Mine Workers of America forms |
| Special : | 06/06/1890 | United States Polo Association formed, NYC |
| Special : | 01/07/1890 | W B Purvis patents fountain pen |
| Special : | 07/10/1890 | Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage) |
| Special : | 10/01/1890 | Yosemite National Park established |
| Special : | 08/24/1890 | 52øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 07/21/1890 | 55øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 02/26/1890 | 65øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
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