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Events in September 1889 4
1824 – 1889Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)Died 23 September 1889, aged 65Collins was an English novelist best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone, works widely regarded as founding texts of detective and sensation fiction. He was a close friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens.
1889Nintendo foundedKyoto card maker begins as Nintendo KoppaiFusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto to manufacture handmade Hanafuda playing cards. The small card company later grew into one of the world's largest video game and entertainment companies.
1889 – presentNintendo founded -- playing cards in KyotoHanafuda cards, seventy years before video gamesFusajiro Yamauchi began producing handmade hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto on 23 September 1889. Nintendo sold cards for most of a century before entering the toy business in the 1960s and video games in the 1970s. The company was founded the same year the Eiffel Tower opened to the public.
1889 – 1976Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)Died 26 May 1976, aged 86Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher known for Being and Time and his influence on existentialism and phenomenology, died in Freiburg. His philosophical legacy remains deeply contested because of his membership in the Nazi Party and rectorship of Freiburg University in 1933. He is nonetheless regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.