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1889 Calendar

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•  January 22, 1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
•  January 30, 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
•  February 9, 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
•  March 31, 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
•  May 14, 1889 – The children’s charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
•  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.
•  July 8, 1889 – The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
•  October 6, 1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
•  November 23, 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

•  February 22, 1889 – Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
•  March 4, 1889 – Jean-Gabriel Domergue, French painter (d. 1962)
•  April 14, 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian (d. 1975)
•  July 17, 1889 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
•  September 14, 1889 – María Capovilla, previous oldest living person (d. 2006)
•  September 15, 1889 – Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
•  September 18, 1889 – Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
•  October 25, 1889 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
•  November 9, 1889 – Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
•  November 30, 1889 – Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971)