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* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
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After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).
* 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
* 1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D. C.
Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.
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At this time, uniforms were ordered in the club colours, black with a red sash, and have been worn in every game from 1890 to today.
At the end of 19th century, the city of Kaunas was fortified, and by 1890 it was encircled by eight forts and nine gun batteries.
At its height, around 1890, the D & RG had the largest operating narrow gauge railroad network in North America.
At the turn of the century, from 1890 to 1910, southern states passed new constitutions that completed disfranchisement of blacks.
At the center of the scene, which presumably takes place in England perhaps London, circa 1890, we see a man pedaling a penny-farthing.
At Natchez and other cities, although the local newspapers and veterans played a role in the maintenance of the Lost Cause, elite women particularly were important, especially in establishing memorials, such as the Civil War Monument dedicated on Memorial Day 1890, and cemeteries.
At its peak in 1890, the town had over 400 people, but Mobeetie's boom days ended when Fort Elliot closed that same year.
At some point after 1890, First Street had been covered with wooden planks, and remained so until 1916, when it was paved over.
At Oxford he extended the Cape observations of stars to the 7th magnitude from 25 ° S declination to the equator, and collected the results in the Radcliffe catalogue for 1890, which contains the places of 6, 424 stars.
He then devoted himself to fiction, beginning with a collection of naturalistic short stories called Im Zwielicht (" At Twilight ", 1886 ), and the novels Frau Sorge (" Dame Care ", 1887 ), Geschwister (" Siblings ", 1888 ) and Der Katzensteg (" Cats ' Bridge ", 1890 ).
At the time, African Americans suffered a high rate of lynchings in the South ; this coincided with their disfranchisement in the South from 1890 – 1910, which persisted until after passage of federal civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
At the 1890 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which attracted more than 27 million people, photography for amateurs was marketed at an unprecedented scale.
At the height of the Filipino-Spanish conflict in 1890s, Bulacan was one of the first eight provinces to take up arms against the Spaniards in 1896. On earlier period during 1890, Malolos was a hot spot of Liberal Illustrados notably the 20 Women of Malolos, pushing for the Education under a Filipino professor. However the first phase of the revolution ceased in 1897 with the signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato in San Miguel.
At the end of 1891 Elsener took over production of the Modell 1890 knives, but Elsener was not satisfied with its first incarnation.
At approximately same time, a rail line from Stróże tp Zagórz was constructed ( 1872-1884 ), with additional connection from Jasło to Rzeszów opened in 1890.
At the time, several prominent California newspapers came out in support of AB 1890, including the San Jose Mercury News.
At their persistent request, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith applied, on 1 May 1897, to the United States rules already set out in a letter of 2 May 1890 to François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, the Archbishop of Paris.
When Chicago annexed Hyde Park just in time for the 1890 census ( to beat out Philadelphia as the second largest metro-area in the nation ), the Highlands were left under governorship of the South Shore area. At the time of the Second World War, the neighborhood saw huge loss in residence and a destruction of the area was suggested.
At the outset of its second season, May 30, 1890, a flash fire burned the building to the ground in a matter of minutes.
At this time political parties had not been established ( they were not established until after the 1890 election ), meaning that anyone attempting to form an administration had to win support directly from individual MPs.
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