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1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX ) was acommon year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Sunday of theJulian calendar , the 1889th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 889th year of the2nd millennium , the 89th year of the19th century , and the 10th and last year of the1880s decade. As of the start of 1889, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 30 :Rudolf &Maria atMayerling .January 30 –Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his mistressBaroness Mary Vetsera commit adouble suicide (or a murder-suicide) in theMayerling hunting lodge.February 15 – The first issue ofLa Solidaridad is published in Spain.February 11 – TheMeiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the 1stDiet of Japan convenes in1890 .February 22 –President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admittingNorth Dakota ,South Dakota ,Montana andWashington asU.S. states .March 9 –Battle of Metemma :Yohannes IV ,Emperor of Ethiopia , is killed;Sudanese forces, who have been almost defeated, rally and destroy theEthiopian army. Yohannes is probably the world's last ruler ever to die in battle; onMarch 25 Menelik II proclaims himself as his successor.March 11 – TheNorth Carolina Legislature issues a charter for the creation ofElon College .March 15 –Samoan crisis : German and American warships keep each other at bay in a standoff inApia Harbor, ending when acyclone blows in and sinks them all.March 22 – EnglishAssociation football teamSheffield United F.C. is formed at the Adelphi Hotel,Sheffield .March 23 – Claiming to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi,Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founds theAhmadiyya Muslim community inPunjab Province (British India) .TheEiffel Tower is inaugurated on March 31, thus becoming the tallest structure in the world April 22 :Land Run April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in theLand Rush of 1889 . Within hours the cities ofOklahoma City andGuthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000.May –1889–1890 pandemic of influenza first reported in the city ofBukhara in theCentral Asian part of the Russian Empire.[ 1] May 2 –Menelik II , Emperor ofEthiopia , signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will becomeEritrea .May 6 – TheExposition Universelle opens in Paris, with theEiffel Tower as its entrance arch. TheGalerie des machines , at 111 m (364 ft), spans the longest interior space in the world at this time.May 11 –Wham Paymaster robbery : An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort in the Arizona Territory results in the theft of over $28,000, and the award of twoMedals of Honor .May 28 – Rubbertire companyMichelin is registered byÉdouard andAndré Michelin inClermont-Ferrand ,France .May 31 June –Vincent van Gogh paintsThe Starry Night atSaint-Rémy-de-Provence .June 3 – The first long distanceelectric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator atWillamette Falls and downtownPortland, Oregon .June 6 – TheGreat Seattle Fire ravages through thedowntown area without any fatalities.June 12 – TheArmagh rail disaster nearArmagh in Ireland kills 80 people.June 19 – ANeapolitan baker namedRaffaele Esposito invents thePizza Margherita , named after the queen consort of ItalyMargherita of Savoy . This is the forerunner of the modern pizza.June 26 –Bangui is founded in theFrench Congo .June 28 – The annularsolar eclipse of June 28, 1889 is visible in Atlantic Ocean, Africa and Indian Ocean, and is the 47th solar eclipse ofSolar Saros 125 .June 29 –30 – First Inter-Parliamentary Conference held.July 8 July 14 –International Workers Congresses of Paris open, and establish theSecond International .July 15 – TheEmperor of Brazil ,Pedro II , survives an assassination attempt inRio de Janeiro .July 31 –Louise, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, marriesAlexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife .August 3 –Mahdist War :Battle of Toski –Egyptian and British troops are victorious.August 4 –The Great Fire ofSpokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.August 6 – TheSavoy Hotel in London opens.[ 3] August 10 – At theVienna Hofburg , the grand opening ceremony is held for theImperial Natural History Museum (German :K.k. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum ), begun in 1871; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175,000 visitors.August 14 –September 15 –London Dock Strike : Dockersstrike for a minimum wage of sixpence an hour (The dockers' tanner ), which they eventually receive (a landmark in the development ofNew Unionism in Britain).[ 4] August 26 – ThePrevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act , commonly known as theChildren's Charter , is passed in the United Kingdom; for the first time it imposes criminal penalties to deterchild abuse .[ 5] August 30 – TheRoyal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office officially opens in London.August – The Jewish settlement ofMoisés Ville is founded inArgentina . September 10 – Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi becomesAlbert I, Prince of Monaco .September 17 – Civil War veteranCharles Jefferson Wright foundsNew York Military Academy , with 75 students on 30 acres (120,000 m2 ) of land inCornwall, New York .September 23 :Nintendo founded as aplaying card manufacturerOctober 2 – In Washington, D.C., the firstInternational Conference of American States begins.October 6 October 12 –Gustaf Åkerhielm , previously Swedish Foreign Minister, replacesGillis Bildt asPrime Minister of Sweden .October 21 –Helmuth von Moltke the Elder is recorded byAdelbert Theodor Wangemann , a German associate ofThomas Edison , on wax cylinders viaphonograph . The two surviving wax cylinders that were produced make von Moltke, who was born in 1800, the earliest-living human whose voice was recorded, and the only human born in the18th century whose voice can be heard in the present day.October 24 – SirHenry Parkes , Premier ofNew South Wales , delivers theTenterfield Oration , calling for theFederation of Australia .October 29 – TheBritish South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.[ 2] November – The first free elections are held inCosta Rica .November 2 November 8 –Montana is admitted as the 41stU.S. state .November 11 –Washington is admitted as the 42ndU.S. state .November 14 – Inspired byJules Verne , pioneer American woman journalistNellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finishes the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes).November 15 – Field MarshalDeodoro da Fonseca organizes a militarycoup , which deposes EmperorPedro II of Brazil and abolishes the Brazilianmonarchy . Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims Brazil a republic, and forms a provisional government.November 17 – TheBrazilian Imperial Family is forced into exile in France.November 19 – The modern-dayflag of Brazil is adopted by the Provisional Government of the Republic.November 20 November 23 – The firstjukebox goes into operation, at the Palais Royale Saloon inSan Francisco .November 27 –Clemson University is founded inClemson, South Carolina .December 14 – Wofford and Furman play the first intercollegiate football game, in the state of South Carolina.December 23 – The Spanish football teamRecreativo de Huelva is formed (the oldest club in Spain by the 21st century).December 28 – The firstinterurban tram-train to emerge in the United States is the Newark and Granville Street Railway in Ohio.[ 7] December 30 –Abdul Hamid II introduce the anti-slave trade law ofKanunname of 1889 .[ 8] Panama ,yellow fever Capilano Bridge .Ernest Tyldesley February 2 –Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , French general, posthumousMarshal of France (d.1952 )February 3 –Risto Ryti ,Prime Minister andPresident of Finland (d.1956 )February 5 –Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (d.1962 )February 7 –Harry Nyquist , Swedish-American contributor toinformation theory (d.1976 )February 16 –Hawthorne C. Gray , American balloonist (d.1927 )February 19 –Ernest Marsden , British physicist (d.1970 )February 21 –Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl , South African politician (d.1975 )February 22 February 23 –Victor Fleming , American motion picture director (d.1949 )February 25 –Homer S. Ferguson , American politician (d.1982 )Oren E. Long Charlie Chaplin Adolf Hitler Manuel Prado Ugarteche April 4 April 7 –Gabriela Mistral , Chilean writer,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1957 )[ 11] April 8 –Adrian Boult , English conductor (d.1983 )April 11 –Nick LaRocca , American musician (d.1961 )April 14 –Arnold J. Toynbee , British historian (d.1975 )April 15 April 16 –Charlie Chaplin , English actor, film director (d.1977 )April 20 April 21 April 23 –Karel Doorman , Dutch admiral (d.1942 )April 26 –Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian-born philosopher (d.1951 )April 28 April 30 –Fritz Pfeffer , German-Dutch housemate ofAnne Frank (d.1944 )Ouyang Yuqian Igor Sikorsky Beno Gutenberg Jean Cocteau Ante Pavelić July 5 –Jean Cocteau , French writer (d.1963 )[ 15] July 6 –Takeo Itō , Japanese general (d.1965 )July 7 –Shiro Kawase , Japanese admiral (d.1946 )July 8 –Eugene Pallette , American actor (d.1954 )July 14 –Ante Pavelić , Croatianfascist dictator (d.1959 )July 15 –Marjorie Rambeau , American actress (d.1970 )July 17 –Erle Stanley Gardner , American author (d.1970 )[ 16] July 18 –Kōichi Kido , Japanese politician (d.1977 )July 22 –Tony Jannus , American aviator, aircraft designer (d.1916 )July 24 –Murray Kinnell , English actor (d.1954 )August 5 –Conrad Aiken , American writer (d.1973 )[ 17] August 6 –George Kenney , World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d.1977 )August 10 –Norman Scott , American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d.1942 )August 11 –Ronald Fairbairn , Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d.1964 )August 15 –Marthe Richard , French prostitute, spy and politician (d.1982 )August 21 –Sir Richard O'Connor , British general (d.1981 )August 25 –Ioan Dumitrache , Romanian general (d.1977 )August 29 –Alfredo Obviar , FilipinoRoman Catholic bishop and Servant of God (d.1978 )Carl von Ossietzky Claude Rains Jawaharlal Nehru November 1 –Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker , Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (d.1982 )November 10 –Claude Rains , English-born American actor (d.1967 )November 12 –DeWitt Wallace , American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest ) (d.1981 )November 14 November 15 – KingManuel II of Portugal (d.1932 )November 16 –George S. Kaufman , American playwright (d.1961 )November 18 –Zoltán Tildy ,President of Hungary (d.1961 )November 19 –Clifton Webb , American actor, dancer and singer (d.1966 )November 20 –Edwin Hubble , American astronomer (d.1953 )November 23 –Alexander Patch , American general (d.1945 )November 25 –George McMillin , American admiral, lastNaval Governor of Guam (d.1983 )November 30 Robert Maestri Nezihe Muhiddin , Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader (d.1958 )Belle Starr Youssef Bey Karam Father Damien January 13 –Solomon Bundy , American politician (b.1823 )January 22 –Carlo Pellegrini , Italian caricaturist (b. 1839)January 30 February 3 –Belle Starr , American outlaw (b.1848 )February 13 –João Maurício Vanderlei , Brazilian magistrate and politician (b.1815 )March 5 –Mary Louise Booth , American editor-in-chief ofHarper's Bazaar (b.1831 )March 8 –John Ericsson , Swedish inventor, engineer (b.1803 )March 9 – EmperorYohannes IV of Ethiopia (b.1837 )March 13 –Felice Varesi , French-born Italian baritone (b.1813 )March 22 –Stanley Matthews , American jurist and politician (b.1824 )March 24 –The Leatherman , possibly French-Canadian vagabond in the U.S. (b. c.1839 )March 28 -Ram Singh , Raja of Bundi. (b. 1811)April 6 –Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (b.1797 )April 7 –Youssef Bey Karam ,Lebanese nationalist leader (b.1823 )[ 21] April 9 –Michel Eugène Chevreul , French chemist (b.1786 )April 12 –Robert Dunsmuir , Scottish-born Canadian industrialist and politician (b.1825 )April 15 –Father Damien , BelgianRoman Catholic priest, missionary toHawaiians withleprosy and saint (b.1840 )April 21 –Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican jurist, 27thPresident of Mexico (b.1823 )[ 22] April 25 –Mary Dominus , American settler of Hawaii (b.1803 )May 9 –William S. Harney , U.S. Army general (b.1800 )May 10 –Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian satirist (b.1826 )May 14 –Volney E. Howard , American politician (b.1809 )May 28 –Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren , American translator and anti-suffragist (b.1825 )June 8 –Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (b.1844 )[ 23] June 10 –Abraham Hochmuth , Hungarian rabbi (b.1816 )June 15 –Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (b.1850 )June 25 –Lucy Webb Hayes ,First Lady of the United States (b.1831 )James Prescott Joule August Ahlqvist July 4 –Susan Catherine Koerner Wright , mother of theWright Brothers (b.1831 )July 7 –Giovanni Bottesini , Italian conductor, composer and virtuosodouble bass player (b.1821 )[ 24] July 10 –Julia Gardiner Tyler ,First Lady of the United States (b.1820 )August 2 –Eduardo Gutiérrez , Argentinian author (b.1851 )August 19 –Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French writer (b.1838 )[ 25] September 23 –Wilkie Collins , British novelist (b.1824 )[ 26] September 24 –Charles Leroux , American balloonist, parachutist (b.1856 )September 29 –Louis Faidherbe , French general and colonial administrator (b.1818 )October 10 –Adolf von Henselt , German pianist and composer (b.1814 )[ 27] October 11 –James Prescott Joule , English physicist (b.1818 )October 17 –Rodrigo Augusto da Silva , Brazilian Senator, author of theGolden Law (b.1833 )October 19 – KingLuís I of Portugal (b.1838 )October 25 –Émile Augier , French dramatist (b.1820 )[ 28] November 16 –Sergei Bobokhov , Russian revolutionary, who committed suicide as a protest against the flogging of woman comrade in Siberia. (b.1858 )November 18 –William Allingham , Irish author (b.1824 )[ 29] November 20 –August Ahlqvist , Finnish professor, poet, scholar of theFinno-Ugric languages , author, and literary critic (b.1826 )[ 30] November 24 –George H. Pendleton , American politician (b.1825 )December 6 –Jefferson Davis ,President of the Confederate States of America (b.1808 )[ 31] December 12 –Robert Browning , English poet (b.1812 )[ 32] December 28 –Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies ,Empress consort of Brazil (b.1822 )December 29 December 30 –Sir Henry Yule , Scottish orientalist (b.1820 )December 31 –Ion Creangă , Romanian writer (b.1837 or1839 )^ Ryan, Jeffrey R., ed. (2008)."Past Pandemics and Their Outcome" .Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness . CRC Press. p. 16.ISBN 978-1-42006088-1 . ^a b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 315– 316.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 . ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . 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