President: Grover Cleveland until March 4th; Benjamin Harrison thereafter
VP: vacant until March 4th; Levi Morton thereafter
Date, Event
Jan 1st A total solar eclipse is seen over parts of California & Nevada. Paiute & Sioux warriors begin a Ghost Dance.
Jan 15th The Pemberton Medicine Company (later known as the Coca-Cola Company) incorporates in Atlanta, GA
Jan 29th Arizona Territory agrees to move its capital from Prescott to Phoenix
Feb 3rd Outlaw and associate of the James-Younger gang, Belle Starr is shot in the back & dies in Oklahoma Territory
Feb 22nd President Grover Cleveland admits North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana & Washington in as U.S. states
Mar 2nd Kansas passes the first anti-trust law aimed at minimizing the powers of large trust companies. ME, MI and TN follow suit.
Mar 4th Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd President
Mar 11th Orange County, CA is created
April Annie Oakley rejoins Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
Apr 22nd Oklahoma Land Run of 1889: At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands race to claim land & form the cities of Oklahoma City & Guthrie, OK. Many start before noon earning the name "Oklahoma Sooners"
May 11th A military escort is ambushed by masked cowboys taking $26,000 from an army payroll near Ft. Thomas, AZ
May 31st The dam holding Conemaugh Lake breaks flooding & destroying Johnstown, PA in 8 minutes. Over 2,200 die.
Jun 2nd 34 Sioux surrender on the Missouri River in Dakota Territory
Jul 1st The Carson City Mint reopens
Jul 8th The first issue of the Wall St. Journal is published in New York City
Jul 8th The last official bare-knuckle boxing title fight takes place with John Sullivan beating Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds
Jul 20th Ella Watson (aka Cattle Kate) becomes the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming Territory
Aug 3rd More than 11 million acres of land are ceded to the U.S. government by the Sioux
Nov 14th Inspired by Jules Verne's novel, pioneer journalist Nellie Bly begins a race around the world. She finishes in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
Dec 24th Butch Cassidy & his gang rob a bank in Telluride, CO
Other
Variations of the Ghost Dance are seen among the Washoes, the Bannocks, the Mohaves & the Navajos
The first coin-operated pay phone is placed into service in Connecticut
Mark Twain publishes "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
Electric sewing machines are marketed by Singer
Births
Apr 16th Charlie Chaplin (Actor)
Apr 20th Adolf Hitler (Dictator, Nazi Germany)
Nov 20th Edwin Hubble (Astronomer)
Deaths
Sep 16th Robert Younger (Outlaw)
Dec 6th Jefferson Davis (President, Confederate States of America, U.S. Civil War)
