59 Reasons Why The 1890s Totally RULED

There is literally nothing better than the ’90s.

1. Jan 25, 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days

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2. June 1, 1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to tabulate census returns using punched card input.

Hollerith’s company eventually becomes IBM.

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3. June 27, 1890 – Canadian-born boxer George Dixon defeats the British bantamweight champion in London, giving him claim to be the first black world champion in any sport.

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4. July 14, 1890 – First recorded use of lime-green to describe a color.

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5. August 20, 1890 – Birth of H. P. Lovecraft, American writer

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6. September 9, 1890 – Birth of Harland Sanders, Founder of KFC

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7. Unknown date, 1890 - The corrugated cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair

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8. March 15, 1891 – Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator at Coney Beach.

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9. April 1, 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.

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10. May 5, 1891 – The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance.

Maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.

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11. May 20, 1891 – Thomas Alva Edison’s prototype kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison’s Laboratory.

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12. June 25, 1891 – Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

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13. September 14, 1891 – The first penalty kick is awarded in a football (soccer) match; John Heath scores it for the Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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14. Unknown date, 1891 - Nikola Tesla invents the Tesla coil.

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15. January 20, 1892 – At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

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16. March 31, 1892 – The world’s first fingerprinting bureau is formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police.

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17. June 4, 1892 – Abercrombie & Fitch is established by David T. Abercrombie.

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18. October 12, 1892 – To mark the 400th anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the “Pledge of Allegiance” is first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schools.

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19. Unknown date, 1892 - The Stanley Cup is donated by Sir Frederick Stanley.

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20. Unknown date, 1892 - A tortoise called Timothy is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England, where she lives until her death in 2004.

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21. May 1, 1893 – The 1893 World’s Fair, also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA.

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22. June 7, 1893 – Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience in India.

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23. September 21, 1893 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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24. November 7, 1893 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote.

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25. December 26, 1893 – Birth of Mao Zedong, Chinese leader

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26. March 12, 1894 – For the first time, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.

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27. June 23, 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

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28. June 30, 1894 – The Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic.

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29. July 26, 1894 – Birth of Aldous Huxley, English author

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30. Unknown date, 1894 - New Zealand enacted the world’s first minimum wage law.

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31. February 14, 1895 – Oscar Wilde’s last play “The Importance of Being Earnest” is first shown at St. James’ Theatre in London.

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32. September 7, 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

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33. October 4, 1895 – Birth of Buster Keaton, American actor and film director

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34. November 27, 1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.

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35. January 4, 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.

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36. January 12, 1896 – H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.

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37. August 27, 1896 – The shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, starts at 9 in the morning and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.

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38. September 24, 1896 – Birth of F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer

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39. December 6, 1896 – Birth of Ira Gershwin, American lyricist

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40. December 25, 1896 – John Philip Sousa composes his magnum opus, the ‘Stars and Stripes Forever,’ on Christmas Day.

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41. April 17, 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident.

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42. July 24, 1897 – Birth of Amelia Earhart, American aviator

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43. September 1, 1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.

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44. September 25, 1897 – Birth of William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate

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45. Unknown date, 1897 - Bayer first produces Aspirin.

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46. January 1, 1898 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

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47. July 7, 1898 – The United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands.

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48. August 28, 1898 – Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola.

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49. November 4, 1898 – Birth of Joe Dougherty, first voice of Porky Pig

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50. November 29, 1898 – Birth of C. S. Lewis, British author

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51. December 26, 1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium.

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52. January 17, 1899 - Birth of Al Capone, American gangster

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53. February 14, 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

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54. April 29, 1899 - Birth of Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader

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55. May 18, 1899 – The First Hague Peace Conference was opened in The Hague by Willem de Beaufort, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands.

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56. June 27, 1899 – The paperclip is patented by Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor.

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57. July 11, 1899 – Birth of E. B. White, American writer

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58. July 17, 1899 – Birth of James Cagney, American actor

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59. December 31, 1899 – A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the most recent time this has happened.

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The 90s Were The Best!!!!!!