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More from 1889:

* Danish inventor Vlademar Poulson invents magnetic wire recording.
* George Eastman markets the first flexible picture film roll.
* Vincent Van Gogh voluntarily admits himself into an insane asylum at Saint-Remy in France. He paints his "Garden at the Hospital", "Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear", and "Wheat Fields and Cyprus Trees" during this period. The next year he kills himself with a revolver shot to the chest.
* The Eiffel tower is officially inaugurated in Paris.
* The Moulin Rouge opens