Notable Historical Events - 1889
1889 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood |
Jan 8 |
Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine |
Jan 10 |
Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France |
Jan 15 |
The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Jan 16 |
128°F (53°C), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record) |
Jan 22 |
Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C. |
Jan 23 |
Daniel Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago |
Jan 30 |
John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope |
Jan 30 |
Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76) |
Jan 30 |
Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. |
Feb 7 |
Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF |
Feb 8 |
Flood ravages Dutch coast |
Feb 9 |
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency. |
Feb 11 |
Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 |
Feb 12 |
Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres |
Feb 12 |
Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo |
Feb 14 |
1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east |
Feb 22 |
US President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state to the union |
Mar 2 |
Kansas passes 1st US antitrust |
Mar 4 |
Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president |
Mar 9 |
Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV |
Mar 9 |
Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US |
Mar 12 |
Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated |
Mar 12 |
Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth |
Mar 14 |
August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen |
Mar 14 |
German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon" |
Mar 15 |
6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die |
Mar 23 |
Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization |
Mar 23 |
The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London. |
Mar 23 |
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India. |
Mar 25 |
1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England |
Mar 26 |
Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England |
Mar 26 |
Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands |
Mar 26 |
South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England |
Mar 30 |
John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY) |
Mar 31 |
300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution) |
Apr 1 |
1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago) |
Apr 3 |
Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va |
Apr 5 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches" (BG) |
Apr 6 |
George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time |
Apr 22 |
Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner" |
Apr 30 |
1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration |
May 1 |
2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886 |
May 1 |
Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) |
May 2 |
Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale |
May 6 |
Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed |
May 9 |
15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34.50 |
May 10 |
17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17.5 |
May 14 |
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is launched in London. |
May 18 |
Jules Massenet's opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris |
May 28 |
Édouard and André Michelin incorporate the Michelin tyre company |
May 29 |
August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna" premieres in Copenhagen |
May 31 |
Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn |
Jun 3 |
The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. |
Jun 6 |
Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks |
Jun 8 |
Cable Cars begin service in LA |
Jun 8 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG) |
Jun 12 |
88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland. |
Jun 13 |
2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming |
Jun 13 |
23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25 |
Jun 15 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG) |
Jun 19 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip" |
Jun 22 |
Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss |
Jul 1 |
Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti |
Jul 1 |
US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens |
Jul 4 |
Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting |
Jul 8 |
John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout) |
Jul 8 |
Wall Street Journal begins publishing |
Jul 11 |
Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city |
Jul 13 |
6th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats Lena Rice (4-6 8-6 6-4) |
Jul 13 |
13th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (6-4 6-1 3-6 6-0) |
Jul 30 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG) |
Aug 10 |
Dan Rylands patents screw cap |
Aug 13 |
William Gray patents coin-operated telephone |
Aug 23 |
1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF) |
Aug 29 |
1st American International professional lawn tennis contest (Newport RI) |
Aug 31 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG) |
Sep 5 |
German Christine Hardt patents the first modern brassiere |
Sep 6 |
King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns |
Sep 7 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG) |
Sep 11 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG) |
Sep 23 |
Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. |
Sep 24 |
Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder |
Sep 28 |
The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice. |
Oct 1 |
Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms |
Oct 1 |
Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum |
Oct 2 |
1st Pan American conference (Washington DC) |
Oct 2 |
In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. |
Oct 6 |
Moulin Rogue opens in Paris |
Oct 6 |
Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture |
Oct 10 |
Barnard College is founded. |
Oct 15 |
Amsterdam Central Station officially opens |
Oct 18 |
1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA) |
Oct 20 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin |
Oct 24 |
Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League |
Oct 29 |
NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3 |
Oct 29 |
Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia |
Oct 29 |
Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC |
Nov 2 |
North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States |
Nov 3 |
Chaplain Ariëns founds first roman catholic workers group |
Nov 4 |
Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL |
Nov 5 |
Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church). |
Nov 8 |
Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union |
Nov 11 |
Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA |
Nov 14 |
New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours |
Nov 15 |
Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed |
Nov 17 |
Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & SF |
Nov 18 |
Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii |
Nov 20 |
Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony |
Nov 23 |
Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco) |
Nov 27 |
1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady) |
Nov 27 |
Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre" premieres in Berlin |
Dec 4 |
Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean |
Dec 7 |
Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers" premieres in London |
Dec 9 |
President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium |
Dec 13 |
Belgium rules on women/child labor law |
Dec 14 |
American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila |
Dec 19 |
Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii |
Dec 24 |
Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake |
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