Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1888):
- January 3 - First wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.
- January 13 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC).
- February 22 - John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY).
- March 11 - Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US.
- May 7 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera".
- May 22 - Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers.
- June 13 - US Congress creates the Department of Labor.
- July 4 - First organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona.
- August 31 - 'Jack the Ripper' claims his first victim Mary Ann Nicholls, a 42-year-old prostitute, who is found stabbed to death in Buck's Row, London.
- October 9 - In the USA, the Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- October 17 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
- October 30 - First ballpoint pen patented.
- November 3 - Jack the Ripper kills last victim.
- November 6 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican-Senator-Indiana) beats President Grover Cleveland (Democrat), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (1989):
- January 4 - US Vice President George Bush is first since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President.
- January 8 - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons.
- January 11 - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc.).
- January 16 - USSR announces plan for two-year manned mission to Mars.
- January 17 - Victoria Murden and Shirley Metz are first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis).
- January 20 - George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
- January 24 - Serial killer (100 women) Theodore Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
- February 14 - The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
- March 24 - In Alaska's Prince William Sound, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spills 240,000 barrels (11.3 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
- April 5 - Solidarity granted legal status in Poland.
- April 14 - 1,100,000,000th Chinese born.
- May 11 - Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds.
- May 17 - Nelson Mandela receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of South Africa.
- May 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected Executive President in the Soviet Union.
- June 3 - Chinese troops kill hundreds of pro-democracy students in Beijing.
- June 4 - The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.
- August 2 - NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of three more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24.
- September 21 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in South Carolina, causing US$7 billion in damage.
- September 28 - Death of Ferdinand Marcos, deposed President of the Philippines (born 1917).
- October 17 - In Loma Prieta, California, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale occurs. Three events about 1.5 and 3.0 seconds apart. Sixty-two people killed, 3,757 injured and damage estimated at US$5.6 billion.
- October 24 - Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud.
- November 7 - Douglas Wilder is elected as first US black governor (Democrat-Virginia).
- November 9 - East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades. Overnight, thousands flood over the border.
- November 10 - Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall.
- December 21 - US Vice-President Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Christmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon.