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Events on the year of 1889 in history

Events
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03 Jan 1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
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04 Jan 1889 The Oklahoma Land Run opens 2 million acres of unused Oklahoma Territory to first serve first come settlers on April 22.
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08 Jan 1889 1st Computer patented
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08 Jan 1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine
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08 Jan 1889 Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
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10 Jan 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
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15 Jan 1889 The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
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22 Jan 1889 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
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23 Jan 1889 Dr Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
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30 Jan 1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
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30 Jan 1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
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30 Jan 1889 Victoria beat New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76)
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07 Feb 1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco
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08 Feb 1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast
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09 Feb 1889 US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
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11 Feb 1889 Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890.
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12 Feb 1889 Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven, " premieres in Oslo
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14 Feb 1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
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22 Feb 1889 United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
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22 Feb 1889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union
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22 Feb 1889 President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state
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02 Mar 1889 Kansas passes 1st US antitrust
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04 Mar 1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President
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09 Mar 1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
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12 Mar 1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
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12 Mar 1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth
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14 Mar 1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen
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15 Mar 1889 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
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23 Mar 1889 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India.
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23 Mar 1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
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25 Mar 1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs England
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26 Mar 1889 Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) vs. South Africa at Newlands
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26 Mar 1889 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26 out of 47! South Africa vs England
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26 Mar 1889 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs England
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28 Mar 1889 The Yngsjö murder in Yngsjö, Sweden: Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
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30 Mar 1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers NY)
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31 Mar 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
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31 Mar 1889 300 meter Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
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01 Apr 1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
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03 Apr 1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia
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06 Apr 1889 George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
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22 Apr 1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
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22 Apr 1889 At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
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22 Apr 1889 Oklahoma land rush officially starts; as many as nine out of ten of these settlers had jumped the gun, earning themselves the name "Sooners"
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30 Apr 1889 George Washington Bridge linking NYC and New Jersey opens
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30 Apr 1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
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01 May 1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
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01 May 1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
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02 May 1889 Abyssinian Emperor Menelik II / Italy signs Treaty of Wichale
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02 May 1889 Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
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06 May 1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed
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06 May 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
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10 May 1889 17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17
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11 May 1889 An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
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14 May 1889 The children's charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
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18 May 1889 Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde, " premieres in Paris
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18 May 1889 Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris France
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29 May 1889 August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna" premieres in Copenhagen
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30 May 1889 Brassier invented
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30 May 1889 The brassiere is invented
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31 May 1889 Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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31 May 1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania
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03 Jun 1889 The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
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03 Jun 1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
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06 Jun 1889 Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
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06 Jun 1889 The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
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08 Jun 1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
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08 Jun 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
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12 Jun 1889 Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
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12 Jun 1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
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13 Jun 1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
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15 Jun 1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adv "The Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
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19 Jun 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
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22 Jun 1889 Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
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26 Jun 1889 Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
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29 Jun 1889 Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
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01 Jul 1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
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01 Jul 1889 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
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04 Jul 1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
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08 Jul 1889 John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
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08 Jul 1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing
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08 Jul 1889 The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
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11 Jul 1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
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11 Jul 1889 Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
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30 Jul 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
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04 Aug 1889 The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
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10 Aug 1889 Dan Rylands patents screw cap
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13 Aug 1889 William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
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23 Aug 1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (San Francisco)
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29 Aug 1889 1st American International pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
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31 Aug 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
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06 Sep 1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
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11 Sep 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)
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11 Sep 1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man" (BG)
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18 Sep 1889 Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago.
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23 Sep 1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
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24 Sep 1889 Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
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28 Sep 1889 Carlos I crowned King of Portugal (1889-1908)
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28 Sep 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.
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01 Oct 1889 Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms
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01 Oct 1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
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02 Oct 1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
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02 Oct 1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
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06 Oct 1889 Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
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06 Oct 1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
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06 Oct 1889 American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
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15 Oct 1889 Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
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18 Oct 1889 1st all NYC World Series New York Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA)
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18 Oct 1889 1st all NYC world series NY Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA) (World Series #86)
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24 Oct 1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
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29 Oct 1889 New York Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
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29 Oct 1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
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29 Oct 1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
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01 Nov 1889 North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states
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02 Nov 1889 North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes 40th state
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02 Nov 1889 North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
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08 Nov 1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
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11 Nov 1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state
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14 Nov 1889 NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
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15 Nov 1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
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17 Nov 1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago to Portland and San Francisco
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18 Nov 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
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20 Nov 1889 Gustav Mahlers 1st Symphony
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23 Nov 1889 Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
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27 Nov 1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis Brady)
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07 Dec 1889 Gilbert and Sullivans "Gondoliers, " premieres in London
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09 Dec 1889 President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
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13 Dec 1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law
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14 Dec 1889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Philadelphia
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19 Dec 1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
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24 Dec 1889 Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
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