Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1889 – Camillien Houde, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal ( d. 1958 )

* Athene Seyler ( 1889 – 1990 ), English actress

* 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer ( d. 1889 )

* 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

* 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

* 1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer ( d. 1977 )

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* Adrian Boult ( 1889 – 1983 ), English conductor

* 1889 – Zerna Sharp, American author and educator ( d. 1981 )

* 1889 – Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist ( d. 1966 )

* 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria ( d. 1889 )

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

* Alexander I of Serbia ( 1889 – 1903 ), King of Serbia

* 1889 – At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889.

* 1889 – Jessie Street, Australian suffragette and activist ( d. 1970 )

* 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian ( d. 1975 )

In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.

Robert Winship Woodruff ( December 6, 1889 – March 7, 1985 ) was the president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1954.

The principal ironworks was built by the British Iron Company in 1825 ; it passed to the New British Iron Company in 1843 and to the Ebbw Vale Company in 1852 but closed in 1889.

In 1889, the Bovril Company was formed.

The Caledonian Steam Packet Company was formed in May 1889 to operate steamer services to and from Gourock for the Caledonian Railway and soon expanded by taking over rival steamer operators.

He earned his law doctorate in 1889 by writing a dissertation on legal history entitled ' Development of the Principle of Joint Liability and the Separate Fund in the Public Trading Company out of Household and Trade Communities in Italian Cities.

This would postpone the popularity of the Graphophone until 1889 when Louis Glass, manager of the Pacific Phonograph Company would popularize it again through the promotion of nickel-in-the-slot ' entertainment ' cylinders.

Reuben Gaylord Omaha: Rees Printing Company, 1889.

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

In 1889, Russian-born engineer Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky developed the first three-phase transformer at the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (" General Electricity Company ") in Germany.

The first electric tram in Melbourne was built in 1889 by the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway Company Limited — an enterprise formed by a group of land developers — and ran from Box Hill railway station along what is now Station Street and Tram Road to Doncaster, using equipment left over from the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 at the Royal Exhibition Building.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

Amoco Corporation, originally Standard Oil Company ( Indiana ), was a global chemical and oil company that was founded in 1889 around a refinery located in Whiting, Indiana, United States.

Lenox was founded in 1889 by Walter Scott Lenox as Lenox's Ceramic Art Company, Trenton, New Jersey.

An example of this was the British South Africa Police ( BSAP ), a paramilitary, mounted infantry force formed by the British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes in 1889 / 1890 that evolved and continued until 1980.

In 1889, the business was incorporated as a private company known as General Electric Company Ltd.

The American Caramel Company was created on March 28, 1889 when the Breisch-Hine Co. of Philadelphia and the P. C. Wiest Co. of York, Pennsylvania merged.

The Citizens Home and Savings Company was incorporated in 1889 with a million dollars in capital, located in the Liggett Building in Marysville.

The town of Luverne was founded in 1889 in the central part of Crenshaw County with the intention of becoming the terminus of the Montgomery and Florida Railroad Company.

By 1901, at least 100 families were living in Brighton, which was along a dummy railroad line built in 1889 by the Bessemer & Birmingham Railroad Company to connect those two cities.

Remsen was platted by the Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad Town Land and Lot Company August 28, 1876, and was incorporated in the spring of 1889.

First incorporated in 1889, the Louisiana & North West Railroad Company operates 62 miles of shortline between Gibsland, Louisiana, northward to McNeil, Arkansas.

However, the records show that the Southern Real Estate and Guaranty Company bought all land tracts by April 1889.