March 4, 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1710 ft long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

March 27, 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.

April 7, 1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.

July 2, 1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

July 3, 1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.

July 26, 1890 – In Buenos Aires the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Juárez Celman’s resignation.

November 23, 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.

November 29, 1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.

December 22, 1890 – Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.

December 29, 1890 – United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

January 11, 1890 – Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)

March 9, 1890 – Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer (d. 1915)

March 12, 1890 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (d. 1976)

April 20, 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, premier of Quebec (d. 1959)

May 11, 1890 – Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)

June 9, 1890 – Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)

August 17, 1890 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)

October 2, 1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)

December 20, 1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

December 25, 1890 – Noel Odell, British mountaineer (d. 1987)