WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1889
Find out what all happened April to October 1889
Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. (11. July 1889)
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population. (29. June 1889)
Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (31. May 1889)
The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. (8. July 1889)
The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon. (3. June 1889)
78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland. (12. June 1889)
In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. (2. October 1889)
Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over Eritrea. (2. May 1889)
The children's charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London. (14. May 1889)
Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago. (18. September 1889)
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris. (6. May 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)
Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. (23. September 1889)
The Great Seattle fire destroys all of downtown Seattle, Washington. (6. June 1889)
American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. (6. October 1889)
The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed. (3. June 1889)
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. (22. April 1889)
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