Page 10: Historical Events In 1890

Nov 17   Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs)   

Nov 20   Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter.   

Nov 20   Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions.   

Nov 20   Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in the missions   

Nov 22   Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69)   

Nov 22   Charles DeGaulle born   

Nov 22   Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77.   

Nov 23   King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.   

Nov 23   Willem III of the Netherlands dies at age 73   

Nov 23   Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies at 73   

Nov 27   1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation.   

Nov 27   Emmanuele Muzio, composer, dies at 69   

Nov 27   Firstsignal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation.   

Nov 29   1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point.   

Nov 29   inaugural Army-Navy football game, Score Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point   

Nov 29   inaugural Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point.   

Nov 29   The inaugural Japanese Diet opens   

Nov 30   John Tasker Howard, composer.   

Dec 03   Bill Midwinter, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia, 4 for England), dies   

Dec 04   Willem III, Dutch king, buried   

Dec 05   Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens," premieres in Karlsruhe.   

Dec 05   Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis).   

Dec 08   Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti).   

Dec 10   George Merritt, London England, actor (I Monster, Q Planes).   

Dec 10   Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84.   

Dec 13   Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please).   

Dec 15   Sitting Bull, a leader of the Sioux Indian nation, is killed in South Dakota by Indian police for resisting arrest.   

Dec 15   Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US   

Dec 15   While resisting wrongful arrest Sitting Bull, the legendary Sioux chief,was killed by police, in South Dakota   

Dec 16   Harlan Sanders, founder/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken).   

Dec 16   Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN.   

Dec 18   Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM)   

Dec 18   Frederick Lugard occupies Uganda for British East Africa Company.   

Dec 18   Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda   

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Jan 01   Florence lawrence: Hamilton ont, silent screen actress (confidence)   

Jan 01   Anton melik: Slovenian geographer    

Jan 04   Alfred g jodl: German wehrmacht general/chief of staff   

Jan 04   Mosa pijade: Yugoslavia, mp (communist)   

Jan 05   Cora witherspoon: New orleans la, actress (bank dick), dies   

Jan 07   Henny porten: Magdeburg germany, silent screen star (deception)   

Jan 07   Maurice e mcloughlin: Tennis champ (us open-1912)   

Jan 08   Sandor rado: Hungarian/us psycho analyst   

Jan 07   Augusta maria l katharina: Wife of germ emperor wilhelm i,   

Jan 14   Francesco d'arcais: Composer,    

Jan 17   Salomon sulzer: Composer,   

Jan 18   Amadeus i fm: King of spain (1870-73),   

Jan 20   Franz paul lachner: Composer,    

Jan 30   Karl merz: Composer,   

Feb 03   Christophorus h d buys ballot: Dutch meteorologist,    

Feb 17   Christopher sholes: American inventor (b. 1819)