What Happened In September 1889 - Historical Events 1889 September

Historical Events for September, 1889

23rd » 'Nintendo' Koppai (Later 'Nintendo' Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
28th » The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.

8th » Robert Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
10th » Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (d. 1929)
12th » Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)
14th » María Capovilla, Ecuadorian super-centenarian (d. 2006)
15th » Robert Benchley, American actor, screenwriter, and critic (d. 1945)
15th » Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author (d. 1948)
18th » Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
18th » Leslie Morshead, Australian general, businessman, and educator (d. 1959)
19th » Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
20th » Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (d. 1962)
20th » Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (d. 1975)
22nd » Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
23rd » Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded 'The New Republic' (d. 1974)
25th » Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author and translator (d. 1930)
26th » Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (d. 1946)
26th » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (d. 1976)
28th » Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (d. 1973)