Timeline Monday 23 September 1889

Events on Monday 23 September 1889 3

• 1824 – 1889 Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) Died 23 September 1889, aged 65 Collins 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.
• 1889 Nintendo founded Kyoto card maker begins as Nintendo Koppai Fusajiro 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 – present Nintendo founded -- playing cards in Kyoto Hanafuda cards, seventy years before video games Fusajiro 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.