March 1889 in History

Events in History

Mar 2 Kansas passes 1st US antitrust law
Mar 3 US President Harrison announced the government would open the 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for settlement precisely at noon on April 22

President Inaugurated

Mar 4 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd US President

Mar 9 Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
Mar 9 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
Mar 12 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
Mar 12 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
Mar 14 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen
Mar 15 6 US & German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
Mar 23 The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London
Mar 26 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England
Mar 26 Johnny Briggs takes 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands
Mar 26 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England

Eiffel Tower Opens

Mar 31 Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris. Built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300m high it retains the record for the tallest man made structure for 41 years.

The Eiffel Tower on opening day in Paris

Birthdays in History

Mar 1 Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
Mar 4 Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
Mar 4 Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
Mar 8 Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business), born in Greensburg, Indiana (d. 1980)
Mar 12 Philip Guedalla, English barrister & historian, born in London, England (d. 1944)
Mar 12 Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
Mar 21 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat and genealogist, born in Vienna (d. 1965)
Mar 27 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer and translator, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1974)

Deaths in History

John Ericsson (1803-1889)

Mar 8 Swedish-American inventor (screw propeller, rotating turret), dies at 85

Mar 10 Yohannes IV [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
Mar 12 John Archibald Campbell, American jurist and Supreme Court justice (1853–61), dies at 77
Mar 15 Melville Reuben Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper, dies of pneumonia at 45
Mar 17 Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch poet (Dietsche Warande), dies at 68
Mar 27 John Bright, English reform politician and anti0war advocate, dies at 77
Mar 28 Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler