1889

Events

   * January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric
     tabulating machine
   * January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
   * February 6 - Elmo Lincoln, actor (+ 1952)
   * February 11 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in
     1890
   * February 22 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North
     Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
   * March 4 - Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the United States (1885 -
     1889) is succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893).
   * March 23 - Land Run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to
     white settlement starting on April 22.
   * March 31 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6).
   * April 22 - Oklahoma land rush: President Benjamin Harrison opens
     Oklahoma to white settlement; Land rush begins.
   * June 12 - Armagh rail disaster.
   * July 8 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
   * September 10 - Albert HonorŽ Charles Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince
     Albert I of Monaco
   * October 2 - In Washington, DC, the first international Conference of
     American States begins.
   * November 2 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and
     40th U.S. states.
   * November 8 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
   * November 11 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
   * November 15 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is deposed in a military coup.
     This marks the end of the Brazilian Empire.

Births

   * Suzanne Duchamp, Dada painter (+ 1963),
   * February 11 - John Mills, American musician.
   * February 11 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer.
   * February 22 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide
   * March 23 - Yukichi Chuganji, (+ 2003 with 114 years)
   * March 29 - Warner Baxter, actor (+ 1951)
   * April 15 - Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. muralist (+ 1975)
   * April 16 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director
   * April 20 - Adolf Hitler, German politician
   * April 26 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austian-born English philosopher (+
     1951)
   * May 12 - Otto Frank, writer, father of Anne Frank (+ 1980)
   * May 15 - Bessie Hillman, founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of
     America
   * May 18 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor (+ 1944)
   * May 25 - Igor Sikorsky developer of a working helicopter (+ 1972)
   * July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer
   * July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (+ 1970)

Deaths

   * January 30 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera, at
     Mayerling
   * February 3 - Belle Starr, outlaw
   * March 12 - Emperor Johannes IV of Ethiopia
   * May 12 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist
   * June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet
   * September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist
   * December 6 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of
     America
   * John Ericsson - Swedish inventor and engineer

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