1890

Events

• October 23 - Mary Pearcey murders Phoebe Hogg and her 1 year old daughter, Tiggy Hogg.
• November 8 - John Brown Gordon's term as Governor of Georgia ends when he loses re-election to William J. Northen.
• December 4 - Benjamin Tillman is elected Governor of South Carolina.
• December 15 - Lakota Chief Sitting Bull is assassinated at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation by a group of BIA agents lead by Lieutenant Henry Bullhead.
• December 23 - Mary Pearcey is executed by hanging.
• December 29 - The Wounded Knee Massacre takes place when a detachment of the 7th Cavalry Regiment under command of Colonel James W. Forsyth slaughters more than 250 Lakota Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in response to a growing religious movement known as the "Ghost Dance", which was perceived to be a threat to American expansionism.

Births

Villain births

• February 24 - Yoshio Tachibana
• May 10 - Alfred Jodl
• May 12 - Kurt Student
• May 19 - Ho Chi Minh
• August 18 - Walther Funk
• September 23 - Friedrich Paulus

Deaths

Villain deaths

• August 6 - William Kemmler
• December 19 - Henry Bullhead
• December 23 - Mary Pearcey

Victim deaths

• October 23 - Phoebe and Tiggy Hogg
• December 15 - Sitting Bull