What the World Was Like When Your Grandparents Were Born

1890

In 1890, West Point’s football team beat the U.S. Naval Academy’s squad 24-0 in the first-ever Army-Navy game. Also that year, the West filled out some more with the admission of Idaho and Wyoming as states. Nearby, the United States Army massacred hundreds of defeated and starving Lakota Sioux, including their chief, Sitting Bull, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.