1889 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1889?
- January 8, 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
- January 15, 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta.
- January 30, 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
- February 9, 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
- February 11, 1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
- February 22, 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- April 22, 1889 – 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, 1889 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, which gives Italy control over Eritrea.
- May 6, 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
- June 3, 1889 – The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
- June 12, 1889 – 78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
- July 8, 1889 – The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
- September 23, 1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
- September 28, 1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
- November 2, 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
- November 8, 1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- November 11, 1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
- November 14, 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
- November 15, 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- November 23, 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
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