Wind tunnels were key in the development and validation of the laws of aerodynamics. In 1889, Charles Renard, a French aeronautical engineer, became the first person to reasonably predict the power needed for sustained flight.

* Christian ( French actor ) ( 1821 – 1889 ), stage name of Christian Perrin, a 19th-century French actor and singer

* 1889 – Musidora, French actress and director ( d. 1957 )

* 1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France ( d. 1952 )

Nonetheless, Samori was forced to sign several treaties ceding territory to the French between 1886 and 1889.

French military missions were sent to Japan in 1872 – 1880, in 1884 – 1889 and the last one much later in 1918 – 1919 to help modernize the Japanese army.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general ( d. 1889 )

* 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French writer ( d. 1963 )

* 1889 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist ( d. 1935 )

* 1889 – Yvonne de Bray, French actress ( d. 1954 )

* 1889 – Jean Monnet, French internationalist ( d. 1979 )

* 1808 – Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly, French writer ( d. 1889 )

* 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( d. 1889 )

* 1889 – Abel Gance, French film director ( d. 1981 )

From 1880 to 1889, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had successfully built the Suez Canal, attempted to construct a sea-level canal in the same general area as the present Panama Canal.

In 1889, on the centennial of the French Revolution of 1789, the Second International was founded, with 384 delegates from 20 countries representing about 300 labour and socialist organisations.

The President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

* December 11 – Musidora, French actress ( b. 1889 )

* September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter ( b. 1889 )

** Jean Cocteau, French writer ( b. 1889 )

* August 31 – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot and World War I fighter ace ( b. 1889 )

In place of the pool the owners of the Lower Grounds built a cycle track and sports ground that opened on 10 June 1889 for a combined cycling and athletics event that drew an estimated crowd of 15, 000.

His interest in athletics prevented Moss from appearing more often ; as an example, he missed the 1889 Varsity Match but came third against Cambridge in the shot put.

After the rules of rounders were formalised in Ireland, associations were established in Liverpool and Scotland in 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.

He had written about his views on social subjects and the responsibilities of great wealth in Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ) and Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ).

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

For example: the similarity of southern continent geological formations had led Roberto Mantovani to conjecture in 1889 and 1909 that all the continents had once been joined into a supercontinent ( now known as Pangaea ); Wegener noted the similarity of Mantovani's and his own maps of the former positions of the southern continents.

In 1889, her mother had become one of the first women ordained as a Protestant minister in America.

The design of the Eiffel Tower was originated by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, who had discussed ideas for a centrepiece for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.

Eiffel had meteorological measuring equipment placed on the tower in 1889, and also built a weather station at his house in Sèvres.

Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

Rasputin married Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina in 1889 and they had three children: Dmitri, Varvara and Maria.

The apex of his concert career is considered to be 1889 to 1892 when he had concert tours throughout Europe.

In 1889 Wilhelm II reorganised top level control of the navy by creating a Navy Cabinet ( Marine-Kabinett ) equivalent to the German Imperial Military Cabinet which had previously functioned in the same capacity for both the army and navy.

By the end of August 1889 he had published his results in the Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie.

Early in 1889, Oliver Heaviside had shown from Maxwell's equations that the electric field surrounding a spherical distribution of charge should cease to have spherical symmetry once the charge is in motion relative to the ether.

Aged 13, Mao finished primary education, and his father had him married to Luo Yixiu ( 1889 – 1910 ), a woman eight years his senior, in order to unite their two land-owning families.

After completing his clinical education and habilitation at the Charité in Berlin in 1886, Ehrlich left Charité employment and traveled to Egypt and other countries in 1888 and 1889, one reason being to cure a case of tuberculosis, with which he had become infected in the laboratory.

In 1879, Camille Flammarion noted that the comets 1862 III and 1889 III had aphelia of 47 and 49 AU, respectively, suggesting that they might mark the orbital radius of an unknown planet that had dragged them into an elliptical orbit.

The Norwegian historian Yngvar Nielsen, commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this question in order to settle contemporary questions of Sami land rights, concluded that the Sami had lived no farther south than Lierne in Nord-Trøndelag county until around 1500, when they started moving south, reaching the area around Lake Femunden in the 18th century.

Although the term " Unicode " had previously been used for other purposes, such as the name of a programming language developed for the UNIVAC in the late 1950s, and most notably a universal telegraphic phrase-book that was first published in 1889, Becker may not have been aware of these earlier usages, and he explained that " he name ' Unicode ' is intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding ".