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1878-1899: Lifestyles, Social Trends, and Fashion: Overview The Gilded Age. The years between 1878 and 1899 were a soul-searching time for Americans, as they examined the basic values they lived by. Middle-class white women became interested in social causes such as helping the urban poor, promoting temperance or prohibition of alcohol, and ...
October 30 – Augusta, Kentucky: The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid, marking the end of the Augusta Methodist College. November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1896: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. This is later regarded as a realigning election, starting the Fourth Party System in which Republicans ...
August – The 1896 Eastern North America heat wave kills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts. August 1 – The Park Seung-jik Shop, as predecessor of South Korean conglomerate enterprises, Doosan Group founded in former Kingdom of Korea. [page needed] August 14 – The Uganda Railway Act, 1896, is approved in the ...
Jan 18 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa. Jan 18 First college basketball game with 5 players on each side is conducted by the University of Iowa; invites student athletes from University of Chicago for an experimental game; Chicago beats Iowa 15-12. Jan 23 Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E premieres.
18 de jul. de 2013 · Welcome to 1896, where the dream of the (18)90s is in full swing: 1.) F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, presumably in formal wear. 2.) Lyricist Ira Gershwin is born and forced to fathom life without his little brother and musical partner George. 3.) The first issue of "Der Eigene," the first gay journal in the world, is ...
29 de oct. de 2009 · Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
11 de ago. de 2010 · During the summer of 1896, a 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 people across New York City — many of them tenement-dwellers. In Hot Time in the Old Town, historian Ed Kohn describes the ...
