| 15/09/1890 |
Agatha Christie, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and writer of detective stories which sold more than 300 million copies, was born in Torquay. |
| 14/10/1890 |
Dwight D Eisenhower – “Ike” Second World War military leader and 34th US president, was born in Texas. |
| 20/10/1890 |
Explorer Sir Richard Burton died. Wrote 43 travel books, and two volumes of poetry. Translated 16 volumes of the Arabian Nights, two volumes of Latin poetry, six volumes of Portuguese literature. as well as books in Hindustani, Arabic, Spoke 20 languages. |
| 1891 |
Half mile long breakwater pier built on River Tees North side. Called North Gare |
| 09/02/1891 |
Ronald Colman, English actor who became a romantic star in Hollywood, was born in Richmond, Surrey. His films included The Prisoner of Zenda. |
| 07/03/1891 |
It is reported that Mr. Mosscrop, Lord Zetland’s agent, as under consideration the desirability of extending the sea wall at Redcar some considerable distance.
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| 24/08/1891 |
Thomas Edison patented the motion camera. |
| 14/09/1891 |
The first penalty kick in the English League football game was taken by Heath of Wolverhampton against Accrington. |
| 12/10/1991 |
The Boer War began. |
| 15/03/1892 |
Liverpool FC is founded. |
| 17/09/1892 |
Mae West, actress, was born in Brooklyn. USA. |
| 13/01/1893 |
The Independent British Labour Party was formed by Keir Hardie. |
| 09/02/1893 |
The world’s first public striptease took place at the Moulin Rouge in Paris. |
| 25/07/1893 |
The Corinth Canal, in the Guilf of Corinth, Greece, is used for the first time. |
| 14/08/1893 |
The world’s first car registration plates were introduced in France. |
| 10/02/1894 |
Harold Macmillan, Tory prime minister 1957-1963 was born. |
| 14/04/1894 |
Thomas Edison publicly demonstrated his “kinetoscope” moving picture machine in New York. |
| 23/06/1894 |
Edward VIII, the king who abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson, was born at Richmond, Surry. |
| 30/06/1894 |
London’s Tower Bridge was officially opened to traffic by the Prince of Wales. |
| 22/12/1894 |
The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason. |
| 12/01/1895 |
The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom. |
| 20/05/1895 |
Reginald ‘.R.J.’ Mitchell (1895-1937) The Staffordshire- born engineer, was chief designer of the Submarine Spitfire. this ‘plane won the Battle of Britain, a victory he did not see, working until dying weeks before his death from cancer. |
| 10/08/1895 |
The first London Promenade Concert took place, founded by Henry Wood and Robert Newman, and played by an orchestra of 80 in the Queen’s Hall. |
| 04/10/1895 |
Deadpan hero of the silent screen Buster Keaton was born in Kansas. His parents were acrobats in vaudeville, and by the time he was three Buster was in on the act. |
| 21/10/1895 |
The Republic of Formosa collapses as the Japanese forces invade. |
| 22/12/1895 |
Wilhelm Roentgen made the first radiograph, or X-ray – of his wife’s hand. |
| 06/04/1896 |
The opening ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens. |
| 02/06/1896 |
Guglielmo Marconi applies for patent for his newest invention, the radio. |
| 04/06/1896 |
Henry Ford took his first Ford automobile onto the roads of Detroit in America. Its success formed the Ford Motor Company. |
| 17/08/1896
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First pedestrian killed by a car was Mrs Bridget Driscoll, of Croydon. She froze in panic seeing the car coming towards her at travelling at 4mph. |
| 12/12/1896 |
Italian born inventor Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of a radio at Toynbee Hall, London. |
| 03/02/1897 |
The Greco-Turkish War breaks out. |
| 1897 |
23/12/1897. A man died at Warrenby Iron Works when a runaway engine collided with 5 laden bogies of slag, which he was just attaching to an another engine. The man died instantly. |
| 11/08/1897 |
Enid Blyton, children’s author was born. |
| 1898 |
200 people die of smallpox in Middlesbrough. |
| 11/01/1898 |
H Gordon Selfridge, founder of the London Department Store was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. USA. |
| 19/05/1898 |
William Gladstone, four times Liberal prime minister, died at Hawarden Castle in North Wales aged 88. |
| 26/12/1898 |
Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium carrying out work in nuclear physics. |
| 21/01/1899 |
Opel manufactured its first automobile. |
| 1899 |
Redcar and Coatham were amalgamated into one Urban District |
| 17/05/1899 |
Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| 03/06/1899 |
Legendary England cricket captain WG Grace played his final test match against Australia at Trent Bridge at the age of 51. |
| 29/07/1899 |
The first Hague Convention is signed. |
| 13/08/1899 |
Alfred Hitchcock English film director was born. He made the first British sound film. |
| 15/08/1899 |
Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company. |
| 29/09/1899 |
Sir Billy Butlin holiday camp pioneer was born. |
| 15/11/1899 |
Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers while covering the war as a reporter for the Morning Post. He escaped a few weeks later. |
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