* 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

Carnegie was one of more than 50 members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which has been blamed for the Johnstown Flood that killed 2, 209 people in 1889.

The built heritage was also at the forefront of the growth of member based organizations in the United States for example, founded in 1889, the Richmond, Virginia-based Preservation Virginia ( formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities ) was the United States ' first statewide historic preservation group.

Wind tunnels were key in the development and validation of the laws of aerodynamics. In 1889, Charles Renard, a French aeronautical engineer, became the first person to reasonably predict the power needed for sustained flight.

In 1889, the National League and the American Association decreased the number of balls required for a walk to four.

Dots and Boxes ( also known as Boxes, Squares, Paddocks, Square-it, Dots and Dashes, Dots, Smart Dots, Dot Boxing, or, simply, the Dot Game ) is a pencil and paper game for two players ( or sometimes, more than two ) first published in 1889 by Édouard Lucas.

While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

* Harry Nyquist ( 1889 – 1976 ), developed the Nyquist stability criterion for feedback systems in the 1930s.

He spent three months from July to September 1889 on board Warspite for manoeuvres before joining the sailing corvette Ruby for a year, where in May 1890 he was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant.

Its rising stature helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th edition ( 1875 – 1889 ) and the 11th edition ( 1911 ) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style.

She was not as active as her sister, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, though Anderson became a member of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1889.

The acceptable source of imperial wives, brides for the emperor and crown prince, were even legislated into the Meiji-era imperial house laws ( 1889 ), which stipulated that daughters of Sekke ( the five main branches of the higher Fujiwara ) and daughters of the imperial clan itself were primarily acceptable brides.

That same year she secretly married Eugene Wetherell ( d. 1889 ) and they returned to the United States, where she remained for the rest of her life.

He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France.

The design of the Eiffel Tower was originated by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, who had discussed ideas for a centrepiece for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as Le Talisman ( 1889 ), Le Réveil de Flore ( 1894 ) and Les Millions d ' Arlequin ( 1900 ).

In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.

The Caledonian Steam Packet Company was formed in May 1889 to operate steamer services to and from Gourock for the Caledonian Railway and soon expanded by taking over rival steamer operators.

In 1889, Aroostook gained slightly from Penobscot, but gave back the land in 1903 when Aroostook County gained its final form.

After his death in 1889 his remains were brought from the United States to Stockholm by USS Baltimore ; his final resting place is at Filipstad, in Värmland.

* March 27-Montreal Hockey Club defeats Montreal Victorias 6 – 1 in the final challenge of the season to win the 1889 AHAC championship

In any event, though film historian David Robinson claims that " the cylinder experiments seem to have been carried on to the bitter end " ( meaning the final months of 1890 ), as far back as September 1889 — while Edison was still in Europe, but corresponding regularly with Dickson — the lab definitely placed its first order with the Eastman company for roll film.

In 1889, a final division of the town resulted in a loss of territory to the Towns of Woodbury and Tuxedo.

The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.

As with Fishke, Mendele worked on and off for decades on his long novel Dos Vinshfingeril ( The Wishing Ring, 1865 – 1889 ); at least two versions preceded the final one.

Leeds St John's played their final season under that name in 1889 – 90, before becoming the football section of Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company Ltd the following season.

Bedridden and unable to attend the final constitutional convention in 1889, he died on December 11, 1889, a few weeks after South Dakota was admitted as a state.

With a final rationalization of the Canadian Cavalry Corps in 1889, The GGBG was brought to full regimental strength with the amalgamation of the local Markham and Oak Ridges Troops.

After stops with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys ( 1885 ), Washington Nationals ( 1886 – 89 ) and New York Giants ( 1889 ), he blossomed with two strong wins in the 1889 World Series, then enjoyed his best season by going 22 – 13 in his final year with the New York Giants in the Players ' League.

Leeds St John's played its final season under that name in 1889 – 90, before becoming the football section of Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Co Ltd the following season.

The final verdict came on July 12, 1889, after ten years, was against the Metran Kakshi ( supporters of Thomas Mar Athanasious )

Sheffield had its own student secret societies ( aka final clubs or senior societies, some also known by their Greek letters ) including the Colony Club, 1848 ( now Berzelius ), the Cloister, 1863 ( now Book and Snake ), St. Anthony Hall, 1867 ( now a 3-year society, also called Delta Psi ), St. Elmo, 1889 ( also a senior society ), as well as Franklin Hall, 1865 ( Theta Xi ), York Hall, 1877 ( Chi Phi ), Sachem Hall, 1890 ( Phi Sigma Kappa ), and Vernon Hall, 1895 ( Phi Gamma Delta ).

Her final book of poems, A London Plane-Tree ( 1889 ), contains lyrics that are among the first to show the influence of French symbolism.

The Sydney to Newcastle section was connected with the conclusion of the final 2 stages, Mullet Creek to Gosford ( opened 16 January 1888 ) and Hawkesbury to Mullet Creek ( opened 1 May 1889 ), of the Homebush to Waratah line, these final 2 stages required the construction of the Woy Woy Tunnel and the original Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge.

But in the summer of 1889, the reservation agent, James McLaughlin, was able to secure the Sioux ’ s signatures by keeping the final treaty council a secret from Sitting Bull.

However, the additions of Sammy Woods, Ted Tyler and George Nichols resulted in Bastard bowling less frequently, and he made his final appearance for the county in August 1889 against the MCC.

The final connecting link from Netley to Fareham was opened by the LSWR 2 September 1889.

*, launched in 1861, commissioned in 1862 and decommissioned for the final time in 1889.

On May 1, 1889, the company was reorganized again, as the Florida Central and Peninsular Railway, and on January 16, 1893, the final reorganization produced the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, along with a merger of the Florida Northern Railroad ( a line north of Jacksonville ).