1889

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18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Heads of State

Events

\n* January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine\n* January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.\n* February 11 - Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890\n* January 30 – Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Marie Vetsera commit a double suicide in Mayerling hunting lodge\n* February 22 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.\n*March 4 - Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the United States (1885 - 1889) is succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893).\n* March 9 - Emperor of Ethiopia Yohannes IV dies and is succeeded by Menelik II.\n* March 23 - Land run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22.\n* March 31 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6). Contemporary critics regard it aesthetically displeasing\n* April 22 - Oklahoma land rush: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement; Land rush begins.\n* May 15 – In Samoa, three US and three German ships sink in a typhoon because the captains refuse to leave before the others – almost 200 drown. British steamer Calliope saves itself by pushing into the wind with full speed\n* May 31 – South Fork dam collapses in Pennsylvania – more than 2200 dead\n* June 3 - The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.\n* June 12 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.\n* July 8 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.\n*September 10 - Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Albert I of Monaco\n* October 2 - In Washington, DC, the first international Conference of American States begins.\n* November 2 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.\n* November 8 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.\n* November 11 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.\n* November 14 - Pioneer woman Journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finished the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes).\n* November 15 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup (he was the second and last emperor of Brazil).

• Frederick Abel invents cordite\n* Diet of Japan founded\n* French defense minister Georges Boulanger attempts a coup but is forced the flee the country\n* First free elections in Costa Rica\n* Ghele, king of Dahomey, commits suicide\n* Yellow fever interrupts the building of Panama Canal\n* Huge locus swarm crosses the Red Sea and destroys crops in the Nile Valley\n* Ghost Dance movement

Births

\n* February 6 - Elmo Lincoln, actor (d. 1952)\n* February 11 - John Mills, American musician.\n* February 11 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer.\n* February 22 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide\n* February 24 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (d. 1936)\n* March 1 - Kanoko Okamoto, novelist, poet and Buddhism scholar (d. 1939)\n* March 4 – Pearl White, American silent film star (d. 1938)\n* March 16 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)\n* March 23 - Yukichi Chuganji, (d. 2003 with 114 years)\n* March 24 - Albert Hill, British athlete\n* March 29 - Warner Baxter, actor (d. 1951)\n* April 11 - Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (d. 1961)\n* April 15 - Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. muralist (d. 1975)\n* April 16 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director\n* April 20 - Adolf Hitler, German politician\n* April 23 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral\n* April 26 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher (d. 1951)\n* May 12 - Otto Frank, writer, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)\n* May 15 - Bessie Hillman, founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America\n* May 15 - Mitoyo Kawate, later Oldest Person in the World (d. 2003)\n* May 18 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor (d. 1944)\n* May 25 - Igor Sikorsky developer of a working helicopter (d. 1972)\n* June 21 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)\n* July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer\n* July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (d. 1970)\n* September 20 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete\n* October 13 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d. 1974)\n* November 16 - Charlotte Benkner, later Oldest Person in the World.\n* December 9 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner\n* Suzanne Duchamp, Dada painter (d. 1963)

Deaths

\n* January 30 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling\n* February 3 - Belle Starr, outlaw \n* March 8 - John Ericsson - Swedish inventor and engineer\n* March 9 - Emperor Johannes IV of Ethiopia\n* May 12 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist\n* June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet\n*July 10 - Julia Gardiner Tyler, former First Lady of the United States.\n* September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist\n* December 6 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America

Heads of State

\n* China - Guāngxù Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)\n* Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)\n* France - Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)\n* Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)\n* Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)\n* Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)\n* Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)\n* Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)\n* Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)\n* Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)\n* United States - \n*# Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1885-1889)\n*# Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States (1889-1893) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n