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Fashion
In the first years of the decade, the silhouette was a continuation of the late 1880s style, with the notable development of a small vertical puff at the shoulder. By 1892, the dramatic, protruding bustle had completely disappeared, and the silhouette most associated with the 1890s. -
In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse
In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse is a Symbolist oil on canvas painting created by Paul Gauguin in 1891. It lives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The image is in the public domain, and tagged nature, horses and men. -
The Immigration Act
The Immigration Act of 1891 centralized immigration enforcement authority in the federal government. As well as extending immigration inspections to land borders and creating the Office of Superintendent of Immigration. -
Lizzie Borden's Parents
Andrew and Abby Borden are found hacked to death in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home. Andrew was discovered in a pool of blood on the living room couch, his face nearly split in two. Abby was upstairs, her head smashed to pieces; it was later determined that she was killed first. -
Pauvre Pierrot
It is a 15-minute short animated film made in France. directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud It consists of 500 individually painted images.These were the first animated pictures publicly exhibited by means of picture bands. Reynaud gave the entire presentation himself by manipulating the images. -
Presidential Election
Grover Cleveland defeated Benjamin Harrison. Allowing Cleveland to become the first former president to be restored to office. -
A Woman of No Importance
By Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life in four acts, It tells the story of Virginia Hall, the first Allied woman to go behind enemy lines. -
22 die in collapse of Ford’s Theatre
In Washington, D.C. on June 9, 1893, the interior of ramshackle Ford’s Theatre collapsed, causing the deaths of 22 people. The building where President Lincoln was. shot An investigation determined the cause of the tragedy was an electric-light plant. -
Meiji Period Fashion trends
At the beginning of the Meiji period, some women did adopt Western fashion but were relatively few and far between, as all Western-style clothing was imported In contrast, many men in Japan at the time were required to start wearing Western-style uniforms to work, beginning with government officials by the end of the decade, students in public universities were required to wear Western clothing, along with businessmen, teachers, doctors, bankers, nurses, and other jobs. -
First Motion Picture
Then Edison and his muckers built a Kinetoscope, a machine to watch these movies. One person at a time would pay five cents to watch a short, silent movie about twenty to thirty seconds long. The first kinetoscope parlor, or movie theater, opened on April 14, 1894, at 1155 Broadway in New York City. -
The First Labor Day
Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job, wildcat strikes broke out, and angry crowds were met with live fire from the authorities. During the crisis, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill into law on June 28, 1894, declaring Labor Day a national holiday. -
First Female with a Phd
Caroline Willard Baldwin becomes the first woman to earn a PhD in America. She graduated with a qualification in Physics, and her thesis “A Photographic Study of Arc Spectra”. -
First X-ray
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen became the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. -
The 45th State
Six years after Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church, issued his Manifesto reforming political, religious, and economic life in Utah, the territory was admitted into the Union as the 45th state. -
First modern Olympic Games
the Olympic Games, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition. -
First drunk driving arrest
a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings. -
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spanish american war
At Manila Bay in the Philippines, the U.S. Asiatic Squadron destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the Spanish-American War. Nearly 400 Spanish sailors were killed and 10 Spanish warships were wrecked or captured at the cost of only six Americans wounded. -
Treaty of Paris ends Spanish‑American War
The Treaty of Paris in France was signed, formally ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire. -
Bandit Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach
The amateur bandit Pearl Hart and her boyfriend held up an Arizona stagecoach on May 30, 1899. On this day in 1899, Hart (dressed as a man) and Boot stopped a stage on the run between Globe and Florence. After taking $421 in cash from the three passengers, Hart took pity on them and handed back $1 to each so they could buy something to eat when they arrived in Florence. -
Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company
in Detroit, Michigan, Henry Ford resigns his position as chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant to concentrate on automobile production. In the summer of 1898, Ford was awarded his first patent, in the name of his investor and Detroit’s mayor, William C. Maybury, for a carburetor he built the previous year. By the middle of the following summer, Ford had produced his third ca -
William Carney becomes first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor
Recognized for heroically protecting the American flag during the Civil War, Army Sgt. William Harvey Carney receives the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration. During his unit’s first major battle, Carney saw the flag bearer get hit by bullets and rushed to catch the flag from him before it hit the ground. -