In 1890, Queen Victoria apparently summoned her baker to prepare an American apple pie.
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In 1890, the United States Supreme Court came close to declaring the punishment to be unconstitutional.
Built in 1890, Pilgrim had been on the list of the nation's most endangered religious buildings.
In 1890 the church banned the polygamy for which it used to be notorious.
Carlos Pellegrini was president of Argentina in 1890 and steered the country through a financial crisis.
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The school, founded in 1890, offers multiple degree programs and is so successful it needs larger quarters.
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Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons.
In 1890, the Preakness and Belmont were run on the same card at Morris Park in New York.
The painting was created in 1890, a month before Van Gogh shot himself at the age of 37.
In 1890, white settlers and troops reached the site of Salisbury (now Harare), which became the capital of Rhodesia.
He will be the Netherlands' first king since Willem III died in 1890.
Opened in 1890, The Forth Bridge is a Scottish icon that is recognised the world over as the most famous of cantilever designs.
Bountiful was set up in 1946 after half-a-dozen men were excommunicated from the mainstream Mormon church, which banned polygamy in 1890.
Sanluis began as a gold and silver mining company back in 1890 and was purchased in the 1960s by the Hearst Corp.
In 1890, Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist and excavator of Troy, died.
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and died in 1976.
Opened in 1890, just two years after the Banff Springs Hotel and just 50km to the northwest, Chateau Lake Louise occupies an equally scenic spot.
Opened in 1890, just two years after the Banff Springs Hotel and just 50km to the southeast, Chateau Lake Louise occupies an equally scenic spot.
It is ironic that today's computer industry has its origins in a data-processing project carried out in 1890 that was completed on time and under budget.
Beck took his last photo in Zermatt in 1890, the same day his nephew (and assistant) Eduard Goehrs, 27, and two guides climbed the Matterhorn with a camera.
In 1890 he was still plugging away, as reported by Century Magazine that year, altering wave forms, turning figures in different directions, adding and then deleting lightning bolts.
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Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota was where in 1890 soldiers from the American Cavalry slaughtered more than 150 members of the Sioux, many of them women and children.
To the students of war, the conflict seemed to vindicate Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, an adviser to McKinley, who had in 1890 written a book preaching the importance of naval power.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1890 not to hear Kemmler's appeal is still cited as proof that electrocution is neither cruel nor unusual punishment (which is banned by the U.S. Constitution).
The first patent for strapping an electric motor onto a bike was filed with the US Patent office in 1890 but, lacking sufficient battery power, these early bikes had a very limited range.
On the other end of the spectrum, he says, are laws like the Sherman Antitrust Act, which amounted to two handwritten pages when Congress passed it in 1890, laying the foundation for U.S. antitrust law.
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To take one example, at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the last big battle with the Indians in 1890, where almost 200 Sioux were killed, there was a rich haul of artifacts.
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