1889 Calendar
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1889 Historical Event(s)
January 8, 1889
– Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
February 11, 1889
– Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
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.
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.
June 29, 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.
September 23, 1889
– Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
October 2, 1889
– In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
October 6, 1889
– Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
November 8, 1889
– Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
Who Were Born On 1889?
February 23, 1889
– Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
April 7, 1889
– Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
April 15, 1889
– A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)
July 13, 1889
– Louise Mountbatten, German-born consort of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1965)
August 1, 1889
– Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
August 13, 1889
– Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)
August 19, 1889
– Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966)
September 28, 1889
– Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
November 1, 1889
– Philip Noel-Baker, British-born Canadian diplomat and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982)
November 16, 1889
– Dietrich Kraiß, German Nazi officer (d. 1944)