Year (''' MDCCCLXXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 1 - Total Eclipse of the Sun , seen over parts of California and Nevada .
- January 4 An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States signed by Pres. Grover Cleveland. Establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers as a predecessor to the current US Public Health Service Commissio bhj yub
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- April 22 - 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 2 - Menelik II , Emperor of Ethiopia , signs a treaty of amity with Italy , giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea .
- May 6 - Eiffel Tower opens, in Paris .
- May 15 - In Samoa , three US and three German ships sink in a Typhoon because the captains refuse to leave before the others - almost 200 drown. British steamer ''Calliope'' saves itself by pushing into the wind with full speed.
- May 31 - South Fork Dam collapses in western Pennsylvania , killing more than 2,200 people in and around Johnstown, Pennsylvania ; the Johnstown Flood .
- June 3 - The first long distance Electric Power Transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon .
- June 6 - The Great Seattle Fire ravages through the Downtown Area without any fatalities.
- June 12 - 88 are killed in the Armagh Rail Disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland .
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- The first West Virginia Tornado happens.
- Moulin Rouge built and opened in Paris .
- Clemson University is founded in Clemson, South Carolina .
- Plattsburgh Normal School is founded in Plattsburgh, New York .
- Riverside Elementary School is opened in Wichita, Kansas .
- Adelaide Medical Students' Society is founded in Adelaide, Australia .
- Wisden Cricketer's Almanac publishes its first '' Wisden Cricketers Of The Year '' (actually titled ''Six Great Bowlers Of The Year''). The cricketers chosen are George Lohmann , Bobby Peel , Johnny Briggs , Charles Turner , John Ferris and Sammy Woods .
- Frederick Abel invents cordite.
- Diet Of Japan is founded.
- French defense minister Georges Boulanger attempts a coup but is forced to flee the country.
- First free elections held in Costa Rica .
- Glele , king of Dahomey , commits suicide.
- Yellow Fever interrupts the building of Panama Canal .
- Huge locust Swarm crosses the Red Sea and destroys crops in the Nile Valley .
- Ghost Dance movement begins.
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi.
- '' Fabian Essays In Socialism '', edited by George Bernard Shaw , is published.
- Capilano Suspension Bridge was opened. This is the longest suspension foot-bridge in the world, and the park is now a favourite attraction to tourists from all over the world. It is located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- '' Sylvie And Bruno '', by Lewis Carroll , is published.
- English football team Wimbledon F.C. was formed.
- Celesta Invented By Auguste Mustel .
- Children's Charter 1889 is passed.
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The last surviving person verified as born in 1889 was María Capovilla , who died on August 27 , 2006 . She was nearly 117.
- January 20 - Leadbelly , American musician (d. 1949 )
- January 21 - Edith Bratt , wife of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (d. 1971 )
- January 31 - Frank Foster , English cricketer (d. 1958 )
- February 2 - Jean De Lattre De Tassigny , French general, posthumous Marshal Of France (d. 1952 )
- February 3 - Risto Ryti , Prime Minister and President Of Finland (d. 1956 )
- February 5 - Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (d. 1962 )
- February 7 - Harry Nyquist , important contributor to Information Theory (d. 1976 )
- February 19 - Ernest Marsden , British physicist (d. 1970 )
- February 22 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell , English founder of the Girl Guides (d. 1977 )
- February 22 - R. G. Collingwood , British philosopher and historian. (d. 1943 )
- February 24 - Suzanne Bianchetti , French actress (d. 1936 )
- March 1
- --- Kanoko Okamoto , Japanese novelist, poet, and Buddhism scholar (d. 1939 )
- --- Watsuji Tetsuro , Japanese philosopher (d. 1960 )
- March 4
- --- Oren E. Long , 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965 )
- --- Pearl White , American silent film actress (d. 1938 )
- March 6 - William D. Francis , Australian botanist (d. 1959 )
- March 16 - Reggie Walker , South African athlete (d. 1951 )
- March 21 - Aleksandr Vertinsky , Russian singer and actor (d. 1957 )
- March 24 - Albert Hill , British athlete (d. 1969 )
- March 29 - Warner Baxter , American actor (d. 1951 )
- April 7 - Gabriela Mistral , Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957 )
- April 8 - Sir Adrian Boult , English conductor (d. 1983 )
- April 11 - Nick LaRocca , American musician (d. 1961 )
- April 15 - Thomas Hart Benton , American painter (d. 1975 )
- April 16 - Charlie Chaplin , English actor and film director (d. 1977 )
- April 20 - Adolf Hitler , Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany (d. 1945 )
- April 21 - Paul Karrer , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- April 23 - Karel Doorman , Dutch admiral (d. 1942 )
- April 26 - Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951 )
- April 28 - António De Oliveira Salazar , Portuguese dictator(d. 1970 )
- April 30 - Fritz Pfeffer , German-Dutch housemate of Anne Frank , (d. 1944 )
- May 12 - Otto Frank , German publisher, businessman, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980 )
- May 18 - Thomas Midgley , American chemist and inventor (d. 1944 )
- May 25 - Igor Sikorsky , Russian developer of the helicopter (d. 1972 )
- June 21 - Ralph Craig , American athlete (d. 1972 )
- June 23 - Anna Akhmatova , Russian poet (d. 1966 )
- July 5 - Jean Cocteau , French writer (d. 1963 )
- July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner , American author (d. 1970 )
- August 5 - Conrad Aiken , American writer (d. 1973 )
- August 12 - Zerna Sharp , American writer and educator (''Dick and Jane'') (d. 1981 )
- August 21 - Sir Richard O'Connor , English General in WWII (d. 1981 )
- September 2 - George H. Plympton , American screenwriter (d. 1972 )
- September 7 - Albert Plesman , Dutch aviation pioneer (d. 1953 )
- September 8 - Robert Taft , U.S. Senator from Ohio (d. 1953 )
- September 11 - Suzanne Duchamp , French painter (d. 1963 )
- September 14 - María Capovilla , Supercentenarian (d. 2006 )
- September 18 - Doris Blackburn , Australian politician (d. 1970 )
- September 20 - Charles Reidpath , American athlete (d. 1975 )
- September 25 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff , Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930 )
- September 26 - Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (d. 1976 )
- October 3 - Carl Von Ossietzky , German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938 )
- October 8 - C. E. Woolman , American airline executive (d. 1966 )
- October 13 - Douglass Dumbrille , Canadian-born actor (d. 1974 )
- November 1 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker , Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982 )
- November 12 - DeWitt Wallace , American magazine publisher ('' Reader's Digest '') (d. 1981 )
- November 14 - Jawaharlal Nehru , Prime Minister Of India (d. 1964 )
- November 16 - George S. Kaufman , American playwright (d. 1961 )
- November 19 - Vasily Blyukher , Soviet military commander (d. 1938 )
- November 20 - Edwin Hubble , American astronomer (d. 1953 )
- November 30 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian , English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977 )
- December 9 - Hannes Kolehmainen , Finnish runner (d. 1966 )
- December 11 - Walter Knott , farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981 ).
- ''date unknown''
- ---Dr. Rai Rajeshwar Bali , Indian intellectual reformist (d. 1945 )
- --- James Alexander Allan , Australian poet (d. 1956 )
- --- Marthe Richard , French Prostitute , Spy , and Politician (d. 1982 )
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- January 13 - Solomon Bundy , American politician (b. 1823 )
- January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf Of Austria (suicide) (b. 1858 )
- January 30 - Baroness Mary Vetsera (suicide) (b. 1871 )
- February 3 - Belle Starr , American outlaw (b. 1848 )
- March 8 - John Ericsson , Swedish inventor and engineer (b. 1803 )
- March 9 - Emperor Yohannes IV Of Ethiopia
- March 24 - The Leatherman (b. 1833 )
- April 23 - Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly , French writer (b. 1808 )
- May 9 - William S. Harney , U.S. Army general (b. 1800 )
- May 14 - Volney E. Howard , American politician (b. 1809 )
- May 12 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian satirist (b. 1826 )
- June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (b. 1844 )
- June 15 - Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (b. 1850 )
- July 10 - Julia Gardiner Tyler , First Lady Of The United States (b. 1820 )
- August 2 - Eduardo Gutiérrez , Argentinian author (b. 1851 )
- August 19 - Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam , French writer (b. 1838 )
- September 16 - Bob Younger , American outlaw and youngest of the Younger outlaws
- September 23 - Wilkie Collins , British novelist (b. 1824 )
- October 10 - Adolf Von Henselt , German composer
- October 11 - James Prescott Joule , English physicist (b. 1818 )
- October 19 - King Luis I Of Portugal (b. 1838 )
- October 25 - Émile Augier , French dramatist (b. 1820 )
- November 18 - William Allingham , Irish author (b. 1824 or 1828 )
- December 6 - Jefferson Davis , President Of The Confederate States Of America (b. 1808 )
- December 12 - Robert Browning , English poet (b. 1812 )
- December 31 - Ion Creangă , Romanian writer (b. 1837 or 1839 )
: ''See also .''
- Argentina - Miguel Juarez Celman ( 1886 - 1890 )
- China - Guāngxù Emperor Of China , Qing Dynasty ( 1875 - 1908 )
- Denmark - Christian IX , King Of Denmark ( 1863 - 1906 )
- France - Marie François Sadi Carnot , President Of France ( 1887 - 1894 )
- Germany - Wilhelm II , German Kaiser ( 1888 - 1918 )
- Holy See - Pope Leo XIII , Bishop Of Rome ( 1878 - 1903 )
- Japan - Mutsuhito , Meiji Emperor ( 1867 - 1912 )
- Norway - Oscar II , King Of Sweden and Norway ( 1872 - 1905 )
- Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II , Sultan Of The Ottoman Empire ( 1876 - 1909 )
- Russia - Alexander III , Tsar Of Russia ( 1881 -1894)
- Spain - Alfonso XIII Of Spain , King Of Spain ( 1886 - 1931 )
- United States -
- # Grover Cleveland , President Of The United States ( 1885 -1889)
- # Benjamin Harrison , President of the United States (1889- 1893 )
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