1889

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 - 1889 - 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894

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See also:

• 1889 in film[?]
• 1889 in literature
• 1889 in music
• 1889 in sports

Events

• January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine[?]
• January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
• February 6 - Elmo Lincoln[?], actor (+ 1952)
• 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.
• March 23 - Land Run[?]: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22.
• March 31 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6).
• April 22 - Oklahoma land rush[?]: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement; Land rush[?] begins.
• June 12 - Armagh rail disaster.
• November 2 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• November 8 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• November 11 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

• Change of US presidency from Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) to Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
• The Brazilian Empire is overthrown in a military coup.

Births

• Suzanne Duchamp, Dada painter (+ 1963),
• February 11 - John Mills, American musician.
• February 11 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov[?], composer.
• March 29 - Warner Baxter, actor (+ 1951)
• April 16 - Charlie Chaplin, english actor and director
• April 20 - Adolf Hitler, German politician
• April 26 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austian-born English philosopher (+ 1951)
• May 12 - Otto Frank, writer, father of Anne Frank (+ 1980)
• May 15 - Bessie Hillman[?], founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America[?]
• May 18 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor (+ 1944)
• May 25 - Igor Sikorsky developer of a working helicopter (+ 1972)
• July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer
• July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (+ 1970)

Deaths

• January 30 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria[?] and Baroness Mary Vetsera[?], at Mayerling
• February 3 - Belle Starr, outlaw
• March 12 - Emperor Johannes IV of Ethiopia[?]
• May 12 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist
• June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet
• September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist
• December 6 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
• John Ericsson - Swedish inventor and engineer

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