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[edit] Events of 1889

January 30: Rudolf & Maria at Mayerling.

Image File history File links Rudolf_Portrait. ... Image File history File links Rudolf_Portrait. ... is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section is incomplete and may require expansion and/or cleanup. ... The last photograph taken of Baroness Mary Vetsera (R). ... Mayerling is a hunting lodge in Lower Austria, where on January 30, 1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera, apparently as a result of suicide. ...

[edit] January - March

• January 1 - Total eclipse of the sun, seen over parts of California and Nevada.
• January 4 An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States signed by Pres. Grover Cleveland. Establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers as a predecessor to the current US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
• January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine
• January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
• January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder suicide) in Mayerling hunting lodge.
• February 5 - First issue of Glasgow University Magazine is published.
• February 11 - Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890.
• February 22 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

April 22: Land Run.

• March - German naval force shells a village in Samoa, destroying some American property. Three American warships enter the Samoan harbor and were prepare to fire on the three German warships found there. Before guns are fired, a hurricane blows up and sinks all the ships, American and German. A compulsory armistice is called because of the lack of warships.
• March 4 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States (1885 - 1889) is succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893).
• March 9 - Yohannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma; Sudanese forces, who had been almost defeated, rally and destroy the Ethiopian army.
• March 11 - North Carolina Legislature issues a charter for the creation of Elon College.
• March 23 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
• March 31 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6). Contemporary critics regard it aesthetically displeasing.

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[edit] April - June

Eiffel Tower.

• April 10 - Hammarby Roddförening was founded.
• April 20 - Adolf Hitler, leader of the NSDAP, is born.
• April 22 - At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
• May 2 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea.
• May 6 - Eiffel Tower opens, in Paris.
• 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.
• May 31 - South Fork Dam collapses in western Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,200 people in and around Johnstown, Pennsylvania; the Johnstown Flood.
• 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.
• June 6 - The Great Seattle Fire ravages through the downtown area without any fatalities.
• June 8 - The Wall Street Journal is established.
• June 12 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.
• Month of June - Vincent Van Gogh paints Starry Night.

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[edit] July - September

• July 8 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
• July 31 - Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife marries Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
• August 14 - The Great London Dock Strike breaks out in England.
• August - The Jewish Settlement of Moisés Ville is founded in Argentina.
• September 10 - Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Albert I of Monaco.
• September 23 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

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[edit] October - December

September 23: Nintendo is founded (then a playing cards manufacturer)

• October 2 - In Washington, DC, the first International Conference of American States begins.
• October 24 - Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, delivers the Tenterfield Oration calling for the Federation of Australia.
• November 2 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. state.
• November 8 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• November 11 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
• November 14 - Inspired by Jules Verne 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).
• November 15 - Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup (he was the second and last emperor of Brazil).
• November 23 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
• November 27 - Clemson University is founded in Clemson, South Carolina.
• December 14 - Wofford and Furman play the first intercollegiate football game in the state of South Carolina.
• December 23 - Spanish football team Recreativo de Huelva was formed (current oldest club in Spain).

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[edit] Undated

Panama, yellow fever.

• The first West Virginia tornado happens.
• Moulin Rouge built and opened in Paris.
• Plattsburgh Normal School 9is founded in Plattsburgh, New York.
• Riverside Elementary School is opened in Wichita, Kansas.
• Wisden Cricketer's Almanac publishes its first Wisden Cricketers of the Year (actually titled Six Great Bowlers Of The Year). The cricketers chosen are George Lohmann, Bobby Peel, Johnny Briggs, Charles Turner, John Ferris and Sammy Woods.
• Frederick Abel invents cordite.
• Diet of Japan is founded.
• French defense minister Georges Boulanger attempts a coup but is forced to flee the country.
• First free elections held in Costa Rica.

Capilano Bridge.

• Glele, king of Dahomey, commits suicide.
• Yellow fever interrupts the building of Panama Canal.
• Huge locust swarm crosses the Red Sea and destroys crops in the Nile Valley.
• Ghost Dance movement begins.
• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi.
• Fabian Essays in Socialism, edited by George Bernard Shaw, is published.
• Capilano Suspension Bridge was opened. This is the longest suspension foot-bridge in the world, and the park is now a favourite attraction to tourists from all over the world. It is located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Sylvie and Bruno, by Lewis Carroll, is published.
• English football team Wimbledon F.C. was formed.
• Brook trout introduced into the upper Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park
• The Celesta musical instrument is invented by Auguste Mustel.
• Children's Charter 1889 is passed.

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• January 20 - Leadbelly, American musician (d. 1949)
• January 21 - Edith Bratt, wife of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (d. 1971)
• January 31 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• February 2 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (d. 1952)
• February 3 - Risto Ryti, Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1956)
• February 5 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
• February 7 - Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
• February 11 - John H. Mills, Sr., American singer, "Mills Brothers" (d. 1967)
• February 19 - Ernest Marsden, British physicist (d. 1970)
• February 22 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guides (d. 1977)
• February 22 - R. G. Collingwood, British philosopher and historian. (d. 1943)
• February 24 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (d. 1936)
• March 1
  • Kanoko Okamoto, Japanese novelist, poet, and Buddhism scholar (d. 1939)