What Happened in 1889

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Completed

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio at 951 Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois, has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust... Read more

Mark Twain Publishes "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Some early editions are entitled A Yankee... Read more

Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski Discover the Role of the Pancreas in Diabetes

The discovery of a role for the pancreas in diabetes is generally ascribed to Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski, who in 1889 found that dogs... Read more

Jane Addams and Ellen Starr opens the Hull House in Chicago

Hull House, the most well known settlement house in the United States, was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the... Read more

Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd president of the United States

Nominated on the 8th ballot of the Republican convention, the Civil War veteran, jurist, and Senator from Indiana was the only grandson of a... Read more

Eiffel Tower Opens

The Eiffel Tower is an 1889 iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the... Read more

Charlie Chaplin is Born

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of... Read more

Adolf Hitler born in Austria

At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German... Read more

Wham Paymaster Robbery

One of the most notorious crimes of the Southwest, possibly the only instance of an attack by white men upon American soldiery, since has been... Read more

The Johnstown Flood

The Johnstown Flood disaster (or Great Flood of 1889 as it became known locally) occurred on May 31, 1889. It was the result of the failure of the... Read more

Frank Lloyd Wright Marries Catherine Tobin

On June 1, 1889, Wright married his first wife, Catherine Lee "Kitty" Tobin (1871–1959). The two had met around a year earlier during activities at... Read more

Armagh Rail Disaster

The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh, Ireland when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep... Read more

Douglass is Appointed U.S. Minister Resident and Consul General, Republic of Haiti

Frederick Douglass arrived in Port-au-Prince on this day to serve as U.S. Minister to Haiti. Appointed by President William Henry Harrison,... Read more

Nintendo Founded

Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by... Read more

Kermit Roosevelt Is Born

Kermit was born at the Roosevelt residence Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, New York, the second child born to Theodore Roosevelt and his second wife,... Read more

North Dakota And South Dakota are the 39th and 40th States Admitted to the Union

On November 2, 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states. The first European explorers, Louis... Read more

Montana is the 41st State Admitted to the Union

Before Montana was a state, it was a territory. During those early years, the President of the United States appointed territorial governors,... Read more

Washington is the 42nd State Admitted to the Union

On November 11, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison declared Washington the forty-second state in the Union. Less than fifty years after pioneers... Read more

Oahu Railway and Land Company Opens First Railroad in Hawaiian Islands

On November 16, 1889, the Oahu Railway and Land Company (OR&L) began operating on Hawai`i's third largest island, Oahu. The brainchild of... Read more

Death of Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis died between 12:30AM and 1:00AM on December 6, 1889. The news of his death hit the front page of many Southern newspapers. The... Read more