1889
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Events
- March 31 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (opens May 6). Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically displeasing.
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Literature
- Twilight of the Idols, a book by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Kreutzer Sonata, a novella by Leo Tolstoy
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Births
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher who contributed several groundbreaking works to modern philosophy
- November 1 – Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer (d. 1978)
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Deaths
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French novelist who specialised in a kind of mysterious tales
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