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The front page of the first issue of The Wall Street Journal

Events

• January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
• January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder-suicide) in the Mayerling hunting lodge.
• February 11 – The Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
• March 4 – Benjamin Harrison is sworn in, as the 23rd President of the United States.
• March 15 – Samoan crisis: German and American warships keep each other at bay in a standoff in Apia Harbor, ending when a cyclone blows in and sinks them all.
• March 23 – Claiming to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founds the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Punjab Province (British India).
• March 31 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris (opens May 6). At 300 m (980 ft), its height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m (430 ft). Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.
• April 1 – Following a failed attempt at a coup, French defense minister Georges Boulanger is forced to flee the country.
• April 10 – The Hammarby Roddförening (later Hammarby IF) sports club is founded in Sweden.
• May – 1889–1890 pandemic of influenza first reported in the city of Bukhara in the Central Asian part of the Russian Empire.
• May 2 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea.
• May 6 – The Exposition Universelle opens in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch. The Galerie des machines, at 111 m (364 ft), spans the longest interior space in the world at this time.
• May 28 – Rubber tire company Michelin is registered by Édouard and André Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• May 31 - The Naval Defence Act dictates that the fleet strength of the British Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.
• June 3 – The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
• June 12 – The Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Ireland kills 80 people.
• July 8 - The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published in New York City.
• July 14 – International Workers Congresses of Paris open, and establish the Second International.
• August 3 – Mahdist War: Battle of Toski – Egyptian and British troops are victorious.
• August 26 – The Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act, commonly known as the Children's Charter, is passed in the United Kingdom; for the first time it imposes criminal penalties to deter child abuse.
• October 12 – Gustaf Åkerhielm, previously Swedish Foreign Minister, replaces Gillis Bildt as Prime Minister of Sweden.
• October 29 – The British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.
• November 15 – Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca organizes a military coup, which deposes Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and abolishes the Brazilian monarchy. Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims Brazil a republic, and forms a provisional government.
• November 17 – The Brazilian Imperial Family is forced into exile in France.
• December 1 – The 1889–1890 pandemic of influenza first peaks, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Elon University		Private university	North Carolina private university
Swedish Social Democratic Party			The ruling party of Sweden
University of New Mexico		Research Public State Flagship	University in Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of Idaho		PublicLand-grantSpace-grant	Many alumni later move on to national prominence.
Gordon College			Private Christian college in Massachusetts
University of Fribourg		Public	Klaus Schwab's alma mater
Pacific-Union Club			The most exclusive gentlemen's club in San Francisco.
Clemson University		Public Land grant university Sea-grant university	South Carolina university with strong military recruitment presence

 

==A Quotation== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Description
James Harris	25 March 1807	17 May 1889
John Reith	20 July 1889	20 July 1889	Scotland Edinburgh	First Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Árpád Plesch	1889		1974	Lawyer	Hungarian-Jewish lawyer who became rich by fraud during World War 2. Huge collection of esoteric pornography. Mentor of Gianni Agnelli.
Leon Fraser	1889	US Boston Massachusetts		Banker	President of the Bank of International Settlements 1933-35. Shot himself in April 1945.
H. L. Hunt	17 February 1889	Illinois Ramsey	29 November 1974	Gambler Billionaire Businessperson	Billionaire Texas oil tycoon who joined the US deep state through his involvement in the assassination of JFK.
Laureano Gomez	20 February 1889	Colombia Bogotá	13 July 1965	Politician	President of Colombia, two of whose sons, Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and Enrique Gomez-Hurtado both were repeat visitors to Le Cercle.
Samuel Bronfman	27 February 1889	Bessarabia Russia/Tsarist Russia	10 July 1971	Smuggling Businessperson	Liquor producer who made it big during the US Prohibition. Kept mobster ties afterwards, even while going respectable as a businessman
Clifton Webb	8 March 1889		6 February 1962	Diplomat Politician	Attended the fourth Bilderberg as New Zealand High commissioner to the United Kingdom
Philip Randolph	15 April 1889	Florida Crescent City	16 May 1979	Activist Labor unionist	American labor unionist and civil rights activist
Adolf Hitler	20 April 1889	Austria-Hungary Braunau am Inn	30 April 1945	Politician War criminal	=Austrian painter turned German politician. Played a massive role in World War 2.
António de Oliveira Salazar	28 April 1889	Portugal Vimieiro Santa Comba Dão	27 July 1970	Politician Economist
Francis Spellman	4 May 1889	United States Massachusetts Whitman	2 December 1967	Clergy	Archbishop of New York 1939-1967 and protector of Ivan Illich.
W. Randolph Burgess	7 May 1889	US Rhode Island Newport	16 September 1978	Diplomat Lawyer	Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s as US Ambassador to NATO. Chairman of Atlantic Council.
Clifford Allen	9 May 1889	Wales Newport	3 March 1939	Politician	Prominent UK pacifist who died in March 1939
Harry Elmer Barnes	15 June 1889	New York Auburn	25 August 1968	Historian	US historian
Fernand Van Langenhove	30 June 1889	Belgium Moeskroen	29 July 1982
Theodor Max van der Beugel	15 July 1889	Netherlands Amsterdam		Banker	Jewish-Dutch banker "tightly woven into the cobweb of transatlantic financial structures". Father of Ernst van der Beugel
John Reith	20 July 1889	Scotland Stonehaven Kincardineshire	20 July 1889		First Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation
Robert A. Taft	8 September 1889	United States Ohio Cincinnati	31 July 1953	Politician Lawyer
Walter Lippmann	23 September 1889	New York	14 December 1974	Author Journalist Political commentator	A US journalism who coined the phrase "Cold War".
George Douglas Cole	25 September 1889	United Kingdom Cambridge Cambridgeshire	14 January 1959
Keith Officer	2 October 1889	Melbourne Toorak	21 June 1969	Diplomat	One of the founders of the Australian Foreign Service. Single Bilderberg.
Hanford MacNider	2 October 1889	US Iowa Mason City	18 February 1968	Soldier
Oreste Pinto	9 October 1889	Netherlands Amsterdam	18 September 1961	Spook
Jawaharlal Nehru	14 November 1889	India North-Western Provinces	27 May 1964	Author Politician Lawyer

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