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  • Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Now Poland)
    1889
    Marie Curie

    She Returned home to her Father in Warsaw

    Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Now Poland)
    1889

    In early 1889 she returned home to her father in Warsaw. She continued working as a governess, and remained there till late 1891.




  • Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
    Mar, 1889
    The Wright brothers

    The West Side News

    Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
    Mar, 1889

    Orville dropped out of high school after his junior year to start a printing business in 1889, having designed and built his own printing press with Wilbur's help. Wilbur joined the print shop, and in March the brothers launched a weekly newspaper, the West Side News. Subsequent issues listed Orville as publisher and Wilbur as editor on the masthead.




  • Paris, France
    Friday Mar 15, 1889
    Eiffel Tower

    Construction of the cupola

    Paris, France
    Friday Mar 15, 1889

    Construction of the cupola.




  • Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, (Now Austria)
    Saturday Apr 20, 1889
    Adolf Hitler

    Birth

    Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, (Now Austria)
    Saturday Apr 20, 1889

    Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (in present-day Austria), close to the border with the German Empire.




  • Paris, France
    Monday May 6, 1889
    Eiffel Tower

    Opened to public

    Paris, France
    Monday May 6, 1889

    There was still work to be done, especially on the lifts and facilities, and the tower was not opened to the public until 6 May; the lifts had not been completed even then.




  • Paris, France
    Sunday May 26, 1889
    Eiffel Tower

    Lifts entered sevice

    Paris, France
    Sunday May 26, 1889

    The tower was an instant success with the public, and nearly 30,000 visitors made the 1,710-step climb to the top before the lifts entered service on 26 May. Tickets cost 2 francs for the first level, 3 for the second, and 5 for the top, with half-price admission on Sundays, and by the end of the exhibition there had been 1,896,987 visitors.




  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1889
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla moved out of the Liberty Street shop Peck and Brown had rented and for the next dozen years worked out of a series of workshop/laboratory spaces in Manhattan

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1889

    In 1889, Tesla moved out of the Liberty Street shop Peck and Brown had rented and for the next dozen years worked out of a series of workshop/laboratory spaces in Manhattan. These included a lab at 175 Grand Street (1889–1892), the fourth floor of 33–35 South Fifth Avenue (1892–1895), and sixth and seventh floors of 46 & 48 East Houston Street (1895–1902).


  • Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
    1889
    X-ray

    A paper about its effect

    Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
    1889

    In 1889 Ukrainian-born Ivan Puluj, a lecturer in experimental physics at the Prague Polytechnic who since 1877 had been constructing various designs of gas-filled tubes to investigate their properties, published a paper on how sealed photographic plates became dark when exposed to the emanations from the tubes.


  • Paris, France
    1889
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla traveled to the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris

    Paris, France
    1889

    In the summer of 1889, Tesla traveled to the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris and learned of Heinrich Hertz's 1886–88 experiments that proved the existence of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves.


  • Samara, Kuybyshev, Russian Empire
    Sep, 1889
    Vladimir Lenin

    To Samara

    Samara, Kuybyshev, Russian Empire
    Sep, 1889

    In September 1889, the Ulyanov family moved to the city of Samara.


  • Kyoto, Japan
    Sunday Sep 22, 1889
    Nintendo

    Nintendo Foundation

    Kyoto, Japan
    Sunday Sep 22, 1889

    Nintendo was founded as a playing card company by Fusajiro Yamauchi on 23 September 1889. Based in Kyoto, the business produced and marketed hanafuda cards. The handmade cards soon became popular, and Yamauchi hired assistants to mass-produce cards to satisfy demand.


  • Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    Sunday Oct 6, 1889
    Incandescent light bulb

    Edison's Litigation

    Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    Sunday Oct 6, 1889

    Edison's Litigation continued for a number of years. Eventually on 6 October 1889, a judge ruled that Edison's electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Oct 10, 1889
    Bicycle

    First diamond frame

    U.S.
    Thursday Oct 10, 1889

    On 10 October 1889, Isaac R Johnson, an African-American inventor, lodged his patent for a folding bicycle – the first with a recognizably modern diamond frame, the pattern still used in the 21st-century bicycles.


  • Haiti
    1889
    Frederick Douglass

    President Harrison appointed Douglass as the United States's minister resident and consul-general to the Republic of Haiti

    Haiti
    1889

    President Harrison appointed Douglass as the United States's minister resident and consul-general to the Republic of Haiti and Chargé d'affaires for Santo Domingo in 1889.


  • Auschitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (Present-Day Czech Republic)
    Thursday Nov 21, 1889
    Audrey Hepburn

    Father Joseph

    Auschitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (Present-Day Czech Republic)
    Thursday Nov 21, 1889

    Audrey's father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (21 November 1889 – 16 October 1980), was a British subject born in Auschitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was the son of Victor John George Ruston, of British and Austrian background, and Anna Wels, who was of Austrian origin and born in Kovarce.


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