Today in History for Year 1889

Months in Year 1889: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 116

Jan 3rd - Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
Jan 8th - Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine
Jan 10th - Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
Jan 15th - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jan 16th - 128°F (53°C), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record)
Jan 22nd - Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.
Jan 23rd - Daniel Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
Jan 30th - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
Jan 30th - Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
Jan 30th - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
Feb 7th - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
Feb 8th - Flood ravages Dutch coast
Feb 9th - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
Feb 11th - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
Feb 12th - Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres
Feb 12th - Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo
Feb 14th - 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
Feb 22nd - US President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state to the union
Mar 2nd - Kansas passes 1st US antitrust
Heart surgeon Daniel Williams Mar 4th - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
Mar 9th - Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
Mar 9th - Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
Mar 12th - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
Mar 12th - Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
Mar 14th - August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen
Mar 14th - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
Mar 15th - 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
Mar 23rd - Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
Mar 23rd - The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
Mar 23rd - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
Mar 25th - 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England
Mar 26th - Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England
Mar 26th - Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands
Mar 26th - South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England
Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin Mar 30th - John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY)
Mar 31st - 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
Apr 1st - 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
Apr 3rd - Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va
Apr 5th - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches" (BG)
Apr 6th - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
Apr 22nd - Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
Apr 30th - 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
May 1st - 2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886
May 1st - Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
May 2nd - Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale
May 6th - Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed
May 9th - 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34.50
May 10th - 17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17.5
May 14th - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
May 18th - Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde," premieres in Paris
May 29th - August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen
May 30th - Brassier invented
May 31st - Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
Jun 3rd - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
Jun 6th - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
Jun 8th - Cable Cars begin service in LA
Jun 8th - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
Jun 12th - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
Jun 13th - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
Jun 13th - 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25
Jun 15th - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
Jun 19th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
Jun 22nd - Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Jul 1st - Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
Jul 1st - US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
Jul 4th - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
Jul 8th - John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
Jul 8th - Wall Street Journal begins publishing
Jul 11th - Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
Jul 30th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
Aug 10th - Dan Rylands patents screw cap
Aug 13th - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
Aug 23rd - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
Aug 29th - 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
Aug 31st - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
Sep 6th - King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
Sep 7th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG)
Sep 11th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)
Sep 23rd - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
Sep 24th - Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
Sep 28th - 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.
Oct 1st - Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms
Oct 1st - Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
Oct 2nd - 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
Oct 2nd - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
Oct 6th - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
Inventor Thomas Edison Oct 6th - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
Oct 10th - Barnard College is founded.
Oct 15th - Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
Oct 18th - 1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
Oct 20th - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin
Oct 24th - Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
Oct 29th - NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
Oct 29th - Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
Oct 29th - Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
Nov 1st - North & South Dakota entered the union as the 39th & 40th states of America
Nov 2nd - North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state
Nov 3rd - Chaplain Ariëns founds 1st roman catholic workers group
Nov 4th - Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL
Nov 8th - Montana admitted as 41st state

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 240

Jan 1st - Alexander Smallens, St Petersburg, Russia, conductor
Jan 1st - Charles Bickford, Cambridge Mass, actor (John-The Virginian)
Jan 1st - Tadeusz Jarecki, composer
Jan 1st - Tom Dugan, Dublin Ireland, actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway)
Jan 2nd - Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
Jan 2nd - Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
Jan 4th - Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum, actor/director (Abandoned Child)
Jan 5th - Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal) [or 1899]
Jan 6th - Alan M Bateman, Canadian geologist (Yale professor)
Jan 8th - Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle)
Jan 11th - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938)
Jan 14th - Vincenzo Davico, composer
Jan 20th - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
Jan 21st - Bert Collins, cricketer (Aussie batsman in the post WW I years)
Jan 21st - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility)
Jan 22nd - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
Jan 23rd - Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living)
Jan 23rd - Prosper Arents, Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography)
Jan 25th - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
Jan 27th - Balthasar van der Pol, physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol)
Jan 29th - Francisco Santiago, composer
Jan 29th - Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
Jan 30th - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
Jan 31st - F R Foster, cricketer (330 runs & 45 wickets for England)
Feb 1st - Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
Feb 3rd - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'arc)
Feb 3rd - Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
Feb 4th - Walter Catlett, SF CA, actor (Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities)
Feb 5th - Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren, cricketer (prolific England bat of 20's)
Feb 5th - Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (1st Lancastrian to score 100 100's)
Feb 5th - Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
Feb 6th - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter
Feb 6th - Siegfried Kracauer, writer
Feb 7th - Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
Feb 10th - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
Feb 11th - John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers)
Feb 11th - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer
Feb 17th - H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
Feb 18th - Sybold van Ravesteyn, architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht)
Feb 19th - Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
Feb 20th - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
Feb 21st - Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
Feb 22nd - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
Feb 22nd - Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
Feb 23rd - Cyril Delevanti, England, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye)
Feb 23rd - Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer (League of Nations)
Director Victor Fleming (Feb 23rd) Feb 23rd - Victor Fleming, American director (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind), (d. 1949)
Feb 23rd - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
Feb 25th - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)
Feb 28th - Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
Mar 1st - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
Mar 3rd - Fritz Behrend, composer
Mar 4th - Pearl White, [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
Mar 4th - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
Mar 4th - Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
Mar 5th - Frits Slomp, [Frits de Rover], Dutch vicar/resistance fighter
Mar 8th - Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business)
Mar 12th - Philip Guedalla, historian
Mar 12th - Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
Mar 16th - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
Mar 18th - F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands
Mar 19th - Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10)
Mar 24th - Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
Mar 26th - Vaclav Kapral, composer
Mar 27th - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
Mar 29th - Howard Lindsay, Waterford NY, playwright/actor/dir (State of Union)
Mar 29th - Warner Baxter, Columbus OH, actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid)
Apr 3rd - Grigoras Dinicu, composer
Apr 6th - Barry Macollum, Northern Ireland
Apr 6th - Gabriela Mistral, writer
Apr 8th - Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orch)
Apr 9th - Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on Don Russia, composer/violinist
Apr 11th - Nick LaRocca, US jazz coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag) (d. 1961)
Apr 13th - Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958)
Apr 14th - Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
Apr 14th - Efim D Bogoljubov, Russian chess player
Apr 14th - James Stephenson, actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew)
Apr 15th - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
Apr 15th - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
Comedian Charlie Chaplin (Apr 16th) Apr 16th - Charlie Chaplin, (Tramp), comedian (City Lights)/IBM salesman
Apr 18th - Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter
Apr 18th - John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
Apr 19th - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
Apr 20th - Adolph Hitler, Braunau, Austria, dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45)
Apr 20th - Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996)
Apr 21st - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
Apr 22nd - Ludwig Renn, writer
Apr 22nd - Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945, by suicide)
Apr 23rd - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
Apr 24th - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
Apr 24th - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
Apr 25th - Charles Kellaway, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder of 1920's)
Apr 26th - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus)
Apr 28th - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68)
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolph Hitler (Apr 20th) Apr 28th - Bryant Washburn, Chicago, actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga)
Apr 28th - Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear admiral
Apr 30th - Acario Cotapos, composer
Apr 30th - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
May 4th - Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
May 5th - Herbie Taylor, cricketer (prolific South African pre- & post-WWI)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 76 of 76

Jan 10th - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
Jan 13th - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
Jan 14th - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
Jan 17th - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
Jan 27th - Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist, dies at 65
Jan 30th - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
Feb 1st - Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78
Feb 3rd - Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40
Feb 12th - Andrew Greenwood, cricketer (batted in Eng's 1st 2 Tests 1877), dies
Feb 13th - João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1885)
Feb 26th - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
Mar 3rd - Edward Sydney Smith, composer, dies at 49
Mar 8th - Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85
Mar 12th - Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
Mar 17th - Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68
Mar 18th - William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
Mar 27th - Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64
Mar 27th - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
Mar 28th - Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler
Apr 4th - Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56
Apr 8th - Henry Jupp, cricketer (scored 63 on Test debut for Engl in 1877), dies
Apr 9th - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
Apr 15th - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
Apr 19th - Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies
Apr 23rd - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
May 9th - William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
May 10th - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
May 14th - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
May 15th - Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies
May 17th - William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies
May 18th - Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (b. 1823)
May 28th - Willem M d'Ablaing, lawyer, dies at 37
Jun 8th - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54
Jun 15th - Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39
Jun 18th - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
Jun 27th - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies
Jun 27th - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50
Jun 28th - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70
Jun 30th - Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64
Jul 4th - Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
Jul 7th - Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67
Jul 11th - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34
Jul 13th - Carli Zoeller, composer, dies at 49
Jul 13th - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
Jul 16th - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83
Jul 21st - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
Jul 30th - Charles Absolom, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies in an accident
Aug 2nd - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
Aug 4th - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
Aug 5th - Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80
Aug 17th - Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor, dies at 42
Aug 19th - Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
Aug 22nd - John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies
Aug 24th - Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
Aug 29th - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
Sep 23rd - Wilkie (William) Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies (b. 1824)
Sep 29th - Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
Oct 3rd - Karel Miry, composer, dies at 66
Oct 10th - Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75
Oct 11th - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
Oct 17th - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
Oct 18th - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
Oct 19th - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
Oct 22nd - Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59
Nov 18th - William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
Dec 3rd - Baltasar Saldoni, composer, dies at 82
Dec 6th - Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81
Dec 6th - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, dies at 48
Dec 10th - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50
Dec 12th - Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
Dec 12th - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
Dec 15th - Ferdinand II A F A, King of Portugal, dies at 73
Dec 21st - Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61
Dec 21st - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809)
Dec 24th - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)
Dec 31st - Ion Creanga, Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52