Historical Events in January 1889

Jan 3 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood

Nietzsche Collapses

Jan 3 German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suffers a mental breakdown after supposedly witnessing a horse flogging

Jan 8 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine
Jan 10 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
Jan 16 128°F (53°C), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record)
Jan 22 Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.

Event of Interest

Jan 23 Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago

Lovesick Prince in Suicide Pact

Jan 30 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling in an apparent suicide pact