At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.

At University of Michigan, Dewey published his first two books, Psychology ( 1887 ), and Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding ( 1888 ), both of which expressed Dewey's early commitment to British neo-Hegelianism.

At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888, Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture entitled A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers, describing the equipment which allowed efficient generation and use of polyphase alternating currents.

At least one D ' Oyly Carte company, and sometimes as many as three, played Pinafore under Carte's aegis every year between 1878 and 1888, including its first London revival in 1887.

At the time of his Guild of Handicraft, initiated in 1888, he said, " We do not reject the machine, we welcome it.

At a dinner party in London in April 1888, Grieg finally convinced Julius Delius that his son's future lay in music.

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 summit of Mount Rainier, 1888.

At a Council of State on October 12, 1888 the king declared his wishes as to the way in which this surplus should be used.

At a public meeting in Glasgow on 25 August 1888 the Scottish Labour Party ( not the same party as the modern Scottish Labour Party ) was formed, with Hardie becoming the party's first secretary.

At the conclusion of the following 1888 – 89 season, Blackpool became founder members of the Lancashire League.

At this period of his life he wrote Grégoire de Tours et Marius d ' Avenche ( 1872 ); Frédégaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885 ; a translation of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes ( 1879 ); Études critiques sur les sources de l ' histoire carolingienne ( 1898, 1st part only published ); and Bibliographie de l ' histoire de France ( 1888 ).

At that same time, the rifle's firing pin and its rear knob were not modified since this had already been performed in 1888.

) At the age of 12, young Josef Hofmann was probably the first pianist of note to record on Edison's phonograph ; Hans von Bülow recorded a Chopin Mazurka on Edison's improved phonograph the same year, i. e., 1888.

At the end of July 1888, British officials submitted the Mauk Mai problem to the British government in India.

At around 1888, he built Lululaund (), a ‘ Bavarian castle ’, which was named after his second wife Lulu Griffiths.

At the time of his death in 1893 ( he had handed over the business to his sons, Charles, Louis and John Hay Wilson in 1888 ) the firm employed 40 staff and was one of the largest publishers of photographic prints in the world, competing with James Valentine, who was also a prolific photographer, with a large company in Dundee.

At the celebration of the elevation of Lipa to a city in January 1888, José Rizal was invited by Dr. Jose Lozada, Catalino Dimayuga and the brothers Celestino and Simeon Luz but Rizal responded only with his Hymno Al Trabajo which he dedicated to the zeal and industry of the Lipeños.

At one point companies by the names of Manz Printing and Hollister Bros. included some of the family members, including nephew Edward Maurice Hollister, Sr .( born 1888 ).

At first, Ranjitsinhji hoped to be awarded a Blue at tennis, but possibly inspired by his visit to see the Australians play in 1888, he decided to concentrate on cricket.

At the 1888 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Gage was chosen as a delegate-at-large during the proceedings.

At the time of her death in 1888 she was living in a lodging-house at 18 George Street ( since renamed Lolesworth Street ), Spitalfields, in the East End of London.

At the completion of the 1888 baseball season, Albert Spalding organized an around-the-world tour to promote the game of baseball.

At the end of the 1888 season, the Detroit team folded, and Rowe was sold to the Pittsburgh Alleghenys.

At the time Fudge was conceived, it was stylish to give role-playing games acronyms for names ( for instance, GURPS and TWERPS ) and originally the usenet design project referred to the game as SLUG, for " Simple Laid-back Universal Game ".

At Universal, Siodmak made yet another B-film, Son of Dracula ( 1943 ), the third in a trilogy of Dracula movies ( based on his brother Curt's original story ).

At the end of the Ten Year Crusade, planned by Shoghi Effendi and concluding in 1963, the Universal House of Justice was first elected.

At Universal, he got a job in the script department, and began by writing dialogue for a number of films in 1932, including Murders in the Rue Morgue, A House Divided, and Law and Order.

At the end of June 2000, a strategic business alliance between Vivendi, Seagram, and Canal + was announced, and Vivendi Universal, a leading global media and communications company, was formed after the merger with Seagram ( the parent company of Universal Studios ).

When the Claretians sold their Claretville property in 1978 to Clare Prophet and her Church Universal and Triumphant ( CUT ) cult, Thomas Aquinas College purchased, moved to, and began construction on a permanent campus in Santa Paula, CA At the present time, the Gillette Estate / Claretville property is now known as the ' King Gillette Ranch ' and this property remains at the intersection of Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

At Earhart's urging, Putnam purchased a small house in June 1935 adjacent to the clubhouse of the Lakeside Golf Club in Toluca Lake, a San Fernando Valley celebrity enclave community nestled between the Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures studio complexes where they had earlier rented a temporary residence.

At the same time, The Rolling Stones signed a one-album deal with Interscope Records / Universal Music Group outside of its contract with EMI, which expired on February 2008, and then in July 2008 signed a new long term deal with Universal Music Group.

At the end of playing Universal Mind, he went off stage to talk to the tech crew to see if it could be fixed.

At the time Lantz took over the series with Disney's blessing are the only Oswald related material plus the 26 cartoons created at Charles Mintz Studio that were not part of the sale still remains property of Universal.

At that time Sullavan worked for Universal and when she brought up Stewart's name, they were puzzled.

At Sullavan's suggestion Universal agreed to test him for her leading man and eventually he was borrowed from a willing MGM to star with Sullavan in Next Time We Love.

At the same time he carried through the press, assisted by Samuel Birch, the concluding volumes of his work ( published in English as well as in German ) Egypt's Place in Universal History -- containing a reconstruction of Egyptian chronology, together with an attempt to determine the relation in which the language and the religion of that country stand to the development of each among the more ancient non-Aryan and Aryan races.

" At one extreme are the ' Free Christians ' who wish to remain part of the Church Universal ; at the other are those who wish to move beyond Christianity

At the age of seventeen, he published a pamphlet On the War in North America, and in 1761 went to London and started a magazine entitled The Universal Museum, which was dropped on the advice of Samuel Johnson.

CNET's 2005 review of SpeechGear's Compadre: Interact product stated, At last, this is the StarTrek Universal Translator, and you can buy it today.

At the end of every day, many performed a " symbol of Universal Unity ", in which they stood in a circle and joined hands and vowed for " truth to the cause of God and Humanity ".

Upon deciding that the major label world was not for him, Nathanson got out of his contract with Universal Records and released " At the Point.

At present the band is still touring and working on new material and have signed new deal with the Universal Music Group.

* At the end of the credits, is a promo card for Universal Studios urging viewers to " Ask for Babs ", a reference to National Lampoon's Animal House.

At the end of 2001, and seventeen years into her career, Universal issued Farmer's first greatest hits collection: Les Mots whose title track and lead single, a duet with Seal, became an enormous hit.

At the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) meeting in Dublin in 1955, he had proposed the system of distinguishing between variants of Universal Time, as UT0 ( UT as directly observed ), UT1 ( reduced to invariable meridian by correcting to remove effect of polar motion ) and UT2 ( further corrected to remove ( extrapolated ) seasonal variation in earth rotation rate ), a system which remains in some use today.