What Happened In December 1890 - Historical Events 1890 December

Historical Events for December, 1890

15th » Hunkpapa Lakota people called Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
22nd » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
29th » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota people e.g Lakota killed by the 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States) called US Army.

5th » David Bomberg, English painter, illustrator, and academic (d. 1957)
5th » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1976)
6th » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author (d. 1946)
6th » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
6th » Rudolf Schlichter, German painter (d. 1955)
8th » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer (d. 1959)
9th » Laura Salverson, Canadian author (d. 1970)
11th » Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935)
11th » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (d. 1976)
18th » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954)
20th » Yvonne Arnaud, French-English actress and singer (d. 1958)
20th » Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
21st » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
25th » Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (d. 1987)
26th » Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
28th » Quincy Wright, American political scientist, historian, and academic (d. 1970)
30th » Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican soldier and politician, 47th President of Mexico (d. 1973)