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1889 Calendar

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•  January 8, 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
•  February 9, 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
•  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.
•  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.
•  November 11, 1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
•  November 14, 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
•  November 23, 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

•  January 19, 1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
•  January 22, 1889 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
•  March 4, 1889 – Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (d. 1979)
•  April 8, 1889 – Sir Adrian Boult, British conductor (d. 1983)
•  April 19, 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
•  April 24, 1889 – Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
•  May 4, 1889 – Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (d. 1967)
•  June 21, 1889 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
•  December 11, 1889 – Walter Knott, American farmer (d. 1981)
•  December 25, 1889 – Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader’s Digest) (d. 1984)