WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1889
Find out what all happened July to September 1889

The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. (8. July 1889)

Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. (23. September 1889)

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. (28. September 1889)

Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago. (18. September 1889)

Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. (11. July 1889)

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