Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda cards.

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

The built heritage was also at the forefront of the growth of member based organizations in the United States for example, founded in 1889, the Richmond, Virginia-based Preservation Virginia ( formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities ) was the United States ' first statewide historic preservation group.

* 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

The city was officially founded on 1 April 1889.

* 1889 – Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian education pioneer, founded the Taman Siswa education system ( d. 1959 )

* 1889 – John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Cadbury ( b. 1801 )

In 1889, French athletics associations had grouped together for the first time and Coubertin founded a monthly magazine La Revue Athletique, the first French periodical devoted exclusively to athletics and modelled on The Athlete, an English journal established around 1862.

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.

Later, Schools of Commerce ( founded 1889 ), Education ( f. 1878 ) and Domestic Science ( f. 1880 ) were added along with colleges at Didsbury, Crewe, Alsager and the former Domestic and Trades College ( f. 1911 ), latterly Hollings College.

Athletics became codified and standardised via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union ( founded in the US in 1888 ) and the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques ( founded in France in 1889 ).

") in 1889 and founded an Austrian pacifist organization in 1891.

The city was founded in 1889 in what was then the French colony Haut-Oubangui (' Upper Ubangi '), later renamed Oubangui-Chari and made part of French Equatorial Africa.

The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889, and grew to a population of over 10, 000 within hours of its founding.

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.

Weber State University, founded in 1889, is located in Ogden.

It was founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by Charles Fillmore ( 1854 – 1948 ) and Myrtle Fillmore ( 1845 – 1931 ) after Mrs. Fillmore had been cured of her tuberculosis, she believed, by spiritual healing.

The county was founded in 1889.

* 1889 Brentford Football Club founded by a rowing club seeking a winter sport.

The borough gained a football team in 1889 when Wimbledon Old Centrals were founded, and were soon a member of the local football leagues.

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.

New Decatur was founded in 1887 and incorporated in 1889.

* New Decatur founded in 1887, incorporated in 1889.

Caucasians also did not settle the area prior to 1900, probably because Indian River Inlet cut the area off from their settlements to the north and because the town of Ocean View, founded in 1889 and now Bethany Beachs neighbor to the west, did not expand its boundaries eastward toward the coast.

In 1889, he opened the first “ Hanafuda ” card shop called “ Nintendo Koppai ”.

Taking place in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall on 23 September 2010 ( Nintendo was founded on 23 September 1889 ), the complete concert was conducted by Niklas Willén for the first time, whereas Jonne Valtonen again served as main arranger and as composer of the opening piece called " Fanfare for the Common 8-bit Hero ".

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

Carnegie was one of more than 50 members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which has been blamed for the Johnstown Flood that killed 2, 209 people in 1889.

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.

In 1889, the National League and the American Association decreased the number of balls required for a walk to four.

Dots and Boxes ( also known as Boxes, Squares, Paddocks, Square-it, Dots and Dashes, Dots, Smart Dots, Dot Boxing, or, simply, the Dot Game ) is a pencil and paper game for two players ( or sometimes, more than two ) first published in 1889 by Édouard Lucas.

While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

* Harry Nyquist ( 1889 – 1976 ), developed the Nyquist stability criterion for feedback systems in the 1930s.

He spent three months from July to September 1889 on board Warspite for manoeuvres before joining the sailing corvette Ruby for a year, where in May 1890 he was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant.

Its rising stature helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th edition ( 1875 – 1889 ) and the 11th edition ( 1911 ) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style.

She was not as active as her sister, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, though Anderson became a member of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1889.

The acceptable source of imperial wives, brides for the emperor and crown prince, were even legislated into the Meiji-era imperial house laws ( 1889 ), which stipulated that daughters of Sekke ( the five main branches of the higher Fujiwara ) and daughters of the imperial clan itself were primarily acceptable brides.

That same year she secretly married Eugene Wetherell ( d. 1889 ) and they returned to the United States, where she remained for the rest of her life.

He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France.

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.

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.

In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as Le Talisman ( 1889 ), Le Réveil de Flore ( 1894 ) and Les Millions d ' Arlequin ( 1900 ).

In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.

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.