November 1889 in History

Events in History

Nov 2 North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States
Nov 3 Chaplain Ariëns founds first Roman Catholic Workers group

Royal Coronation

Nov 3 Menelik II is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia at the Church of Mary on Mount Entoto

Nov 5 Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church).
Nov 8 Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union
Nov 11 Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA

Event of Interest

Nov 14 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours

Nov 15 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
Nov 17 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & San Francisco
Nov 18 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
Nov 23 Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
Nov 27 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)
Nov 27 Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre" premieres in Berlin

Birthdays in History

Nov 1 Philip Noel-Baker, British politician and disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959), born in London (d. 1982)
Nov 3 Heinrich Campendonk, German painter and wood carver, born in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (d. 1957)
Nov 12 DeWitt Wallace, American publisher who founded Readers Digest, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1981)

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)

Nov 14 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India

Nov 15 Manuel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1932)
Nov 16 George S. Kaufman, American playwright (This is Show Business), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
Nov 18 Maria Realino [Frederikus Janssen], teacher (Botany of Curacao) (d. 1977)

Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)

Nov 20 American astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift), born in Marshfield, Missouri

Alexander Patch (1889-1945)

Nov 23 American WWII general (Guadalcanal Campaign, Operation Dragoon), born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona

Nov 24 Cissy van Marxfield [Setske Beek-de Haan], Dutch author of children's books, born in Oranjewoud, Netherlands (d. 1948)
Nov 30 Edgar Adrian, English physiologist (Nobel 1932-function of neurons), born in Hampstead, London (d. 1977)