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1889 Calendar

1889 Calendar

January
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
February
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728  
March
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      
April
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    
May
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
June
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      
July
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
August
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
September
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
October
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
November
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
December
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031    

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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 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.

Who Were Born On 1889?

  •  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)