In 1889 he became papal Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria at Munich and in 1892 at Vienna.

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.

The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were earlier located at Bell's father's house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D. C., where its carriage house became their headquarters in 1889.

It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.

In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.

In 1889 the Halifax Conservatory became affiliated with Dalhousie, awarding degrees through the university.

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.

As the debate continued, Wilhelm became increasingly interested in social problems, especially the treatment of mine workers who went on strike in 1889, and keeping with his active policy in government, routinely interrupted Bismarck in Council to make clear his social policy.

After the discovery and excavation of these monuments and associated stone slabs by Russian archaeologists in the wider area surrounding the Orkhon Valley between 1889 and 1893, it became established that the language on the inscriptions was the Old Turkic language written using the Orkhon script, which has also been referred to as " Turkic runes " or " runiform " due to a superficial similarity to the Germanic runic alphabets.

He had reduced his bowling somewhat in the last few seasons and he became an occasional bowler only from 1889.

In 1889, the original stock report, Customers ' Afternoon Letter, became The Wall Street Journal.

The custom was applied inconsistently from the 16th until the 19th centuries ; creations became more regular from 1889 onwards.

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 he became an Alderman on the Caernarfonshire County Council which had been created by the Local Government Act 1888.

The railroad became the Rio Grande Western Railway in 1889 as part of a finance plan to upgrade the line from narrow gauge to standard gauge, and built several branch lines in Utah to reach lucrative coal fields.

After Melville died unexpectedly in 1889, Anna took control of the company and became one of the most powerful businesswomen of the day.

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** Vertinsky, Alexander: Cabaret singer ( 1889 – 1957 )— became known as the " Russian Pierrot " after debuting around 1916 with " Pierrot's doleful ditties "— songs that chronicled tragic incidents in the life of Pierrot.

Theodore Steinway died in Braunschweig in 1889, having successfully competed against the historic Grotrian-Steinweg brand – both the Hamburg-based Steinway factory and the Braunschweig-based Grotrian-Steinweg factory became known for producing premium German pianos.

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

The theorem was proved by Hermann Minkowski in 1889 and became the foundation of the branch of number theory called the geometry of numbers.

In 1889 the area became part of the County of London.

Bujumbura grew from a small village after it became a military post in German East Africa in 1889.

** North Dakota and South Dakota became states in 1889.

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.

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

* John Walker ( Canadian politician ) ( 1832 – 1889 ), industrialist and member of the Canadian House of Commons

Nevertheless, he continued to exhibit throughout the 1880s and into the next decade, receiving a plentiful amount of accolades along the way, including the medal of Honour at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889, election to an honorary member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1890, the Great Gold Medal at the International Exposition in Brussels of 1897.

In 1885, he was honorably appointed as member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences ( Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW ), and in 1889, he was appointed professor of differential and integral calculus at Toulouse University.

* Bernard W. Kearney ( 1889 – 1976 ), Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

The club was a founding member of The Football League in 1888 – 1889, winning their first League Championship title in the 1890 – 91 season.

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

* William Nathan Harrell Smith ( 1812 – 1889 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1859 – 1860 )

Wiley as a founding member, President in 1886, Secretary from 1889 to 1912, and Honorary President until his death in 1930.

McClellan ( 1835 – 1898 ), member of US House of Representatives, 1889 – 1892, lived in Auburn and practiced law there.

After graduation from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1889, Augustus O. Stanley, who was at one time, member of the US House and Senate, as well as governor of Kentucky, served as chair of belles-lettres at Christian College.

Cambridge University gave him an honorary MA in 1886, and Trinity College formally admitted him as a member, ' by order of the Council ', in 1889.

* Arthur Schabinger ( 1889 – 1972 ), basketball coach and administrator, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame

Gokhale became a member of the Indian National Congress in 1889, as a protégé of social reformer Mahadev Govind Ranade.

Mellon was a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, whose earthen dam failed in May 1889 and caused the Johnstown Flood.

He was made a member of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall in 1889.

Ōkuma was attacked by a member of the Gen ' yōsha in 1889, and his right leg was blown off by a bomb.

He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques ( December 18, 1889 ) on the death of Fustel de Coulanges, and of the Académie française ( 1894 ) on the death of Hippolyte Taine.

In 1889 – 93 and 1895 – 98 he was a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission and in 1900 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern.

From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of the Council of India, being appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India on his retirement.

Following the intervention of the local member of parliament, Charles Selwyn, the Isle of Ely was constituted a separate administrative county in 1889.

Among numerous distinctions he received the Grand Prix, Paris, in 1889 and 1900, and was made a member of the Institut de France, Académie des Beaux-Arts and Société des Artistes Français.

Gifford Pinchot was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1865 ; he graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University in 1889, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.