Page 3: Historical Events In 1889

Mar 08   Oscar Ewing, US govt official (Everybody's Business)   

Mar 09   Battle at Gallabat (Metema); Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV   

Mar 09   Kansas passes inaugural general antitrust law in US.   

Mar 12   Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated   

Mar 12   Ethiopia's Johannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma fighting the Mahdists   

Mar 12   Philip Guedalla, historian.   

Mar 12   Start of South Africa's inaugural Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth   

Mar 12   Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle.   

Mar 14   August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen.   

Mar 15   6 US and German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die.   

Mar 17   Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68.   

Mar 18   F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands.   

Mar 18   William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66.   

Mar 19   Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10).   

Mar 23   Edmonton Alberta's temperature reaches 22.2 C; warmest March day on record   

Mar 23   Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization   

Mar 23   President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization   

Mar 25   1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England.   

Mar 25   The inaugural Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs England.   

Mar 26   Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26 out of 47! South Africa vs England   

Mar 26   Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! S Afr v England.   

Mar 26   Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 and 8-11) vs South Africa at Newlands   

Mar 26   South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs England   

Mar 26   Vaclav Kapral, composer.   

Mar 27   Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64.   

Mar 27   Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat.   

Mar 28   Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler   

Mar 29   Howard Lindsay, Waterford NY, playwright/actor/dir (State of Union)   

Mar 30   John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY).   

Mar 31   300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution).   

Mar 31   Alexander Gustave Eiffel raised the French flag at the top of his tower in Paris   

Mar 31   The Eiffel Tower in Paris, 985ft tall, was officially opened.   

Apr 01   1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)   

Apr 03   Grigoras Dinicu, composer   

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Jan 01   Alexander smallens: St petersburg, russia, conductor   

Jan 01   Charles bickford: Cambridge mass, actor (john-the virginian)   

Jan 01   Tadeusz jarecki: Composer   

Jan 01   Tom dugan: Dublin ireland, actor (circus clown, drag, skyway)   

Jan 02   Tito schipa: Italy, tenor/composer (la rondine)   

Jan 02   Walter baldwin: Ohio, actor (gay amigo)   

Jan 04   Albertus w "albert" van dalsum: Actor/director (abandoned child)   

Jan 05   Albert van dalsum: Dutch actor/director (little rascal) [or 1899]   

Jan 10   Martin andreas udbye: Composer,   

Jan 13   Solomon bundy: American politician (b. 1823)   

Jan 14   Ema puksec: Croatian singer (b. 1834)   

Jan 17   Juan montalvo: Ecuadorian author (siete tratados),    

Jan 27   Ivan s aksakov: Russian journalist,    

Jan 30   Crown prince rudolph of austria: Crown prince rudolph of austria (b. 1858)   

Feb 01   Joseph gungl: Composer,    

Feb 03   Belle starr: Us female gangster, murdered at 40