What Happened in December 1890

Historical Events

Dec 5 Hector Berlioz's opera "Les Troyens" premieres in Karlsruhe, Germany

Dec 16 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
Dec 18 Frederick Lugard's British expedition to Meng and Kampala, Uganda
Dec 21 Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
Dec 22 Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Dec 26 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company

Dec 29 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Dec 2 Fate Marable, American jazz pianist, riverboat calliope player, and bandleader, born in Paducah, Kentucky (d. 1947)
Dec 4 Bob Shawkey, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1923, 27; AL ERA leader 1920, New York Yankees), born in Sigel, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
Dec 4 Jack Darragh, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (Stanley Cup 1911, 20-21, 23; Ottawa Senators), born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 1924)
Dec 5 David Bomberg, English painter, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1957)
Dec 5 Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker and screenwriter (Metropolis), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1976)

Dec 6 British occultist and author (Psychic Self-Defence, The Mystical Qabalah), born in Llandudno, Wales

Dec 6 Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer, born in Calw, Germany (d. 1955)
Dec 6 Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (known as the founding father of modern physics research in Japan), born in Satoshō, Okayama (d. 1951)
Dec 8 Bohuslav Martinů, Czech, composer (Hry o Marti), born in Polička, Bohemia (d. 1959)
Dec 10 George Merritt, English actor (I Monster, Q Planes), born in London, England (d. 1977)

Dec 11 Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of tango, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dec 13 American playwright (One Minute Please), born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania

Dec 18 Edwin Howard Armstrong, American radio pioneer inventor (FM), born in New York City (d. 1954)
Dec 19 Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist and vicar (Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (liberated)), born in Kampen, Netherlands (d. 1952)
Dec 20 Yvonne Arnaud, French-born pianist, singer and actress (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), born in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France (d. 1958)
Dec 21 Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate, born in New York City (d. 1967)
Dec 22 Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, born in Droylsden, United Kingdom (d. 1960)
Dec 22 Mark Tobey, American abstract painter (Broadway Norm), born in Centerville, Wisconsin (d. 1976)
Dec 25 Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (Believe it or Not), born in Santa Rosa, California (d. 1949)
Dec 26 Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
Dec 27 Maurice Schoemaker, Belgian progressive classical composer (Feu d’Artifice - Fireworks), born in Anderlecht, Belgium (d. 1964)
Dec 28 Frank Butler, American actor and screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), born in Oxford, England (d. 1967)
Dec 30 Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973)
Dec 30 Albert Warner, American trombonist (Eureka Brass Band, 1932-66), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1966)
Dec 30 Charles Cyril "Charlie" Creath, American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader, born in Ironton, Missouri (d. 1951)

Dec 2 Cadmus M. Wilcox, American Major General (Confederate Army - American Civil War), dies at 66
Dec 3 Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricket all-rounder (8 Tests Australia, 4 England), dies of insanity at 39
Dec 6 Joe Coburn, Irish boxer (Heavyweight C'ship of America 1863-65), dies from tuberculosis at 55
Dec 10 Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1861-66), dies at 84

Dec 15 Hunkpapa-Sioux chief who helped led his people to victory in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, killed by US Police aged 58 or 59

Dec 21 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist, organist, composer, and conductor, dies at 73

Dec 26 German archaeologist who rediscovered Troy, dies of cholesteatoma at 86

Dec 29 Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
Dec 31 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (Costa Rica's first woman in the military), dies at 74