WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1889
Find out what all happened July to October 1889

Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago. (18. September 1889)

Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. (11. July 1889)

American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. (6. October 1889)

The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. (8. July 1889)

In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. (2. October 1889)

Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. (23. September 1889)

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. (28. September 1889)

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