Gustaf Åkerhielm, previously Swedish Foreign Minister, replaces Gillis Bildt as Prime Minister of Sweden. October 24 – Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, delivers the Tenterfield Oration, calling for the Federation of Australia. October 29 – The British South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter. November – The first free elections are held in Costa Rica. November 2 North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states, respectively. English Association football team Wimbledon F.C. plays their first match. November 8 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. November 11 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state. November 14 – Inspired by Jules Verne, pioneer American woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finishes the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes). November 15 – Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca organizes a military coup, which deposes Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and abolishes the Brazilian monarchy. Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims Brazil a republic, and forms a provisional government. November 17 – The Brazilian Imperial Family is forced into exile in France. November 19 – The modern-day flag of Brazil is adopted by the Provisional Government of the Republic. November 20 Argentina is the first country to recognize the abolition of the monarchy in Brazil. Gustav Mahler premieres his Symphony No. 1, in Budapest. November 23 – The first jukebox goes into operation, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. November 27 – Clemson University is founded in Clemson, South Carolina. December 1 – The 1889–1890 pandemic of influenza first peaks, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. December 4 – The Bayswater Railway Station (Victoria, Australia) officially opens. December 14 – Wofford and Furman play the first intercollegiate football game, in the state of South Carolina. December 23 – The Spanish football team Recreativo de Huelva is formed (the oldest club in Spain by the 21st century). December 28 – The first interurban tram-train to emerge in the United States is the Newark and Granville Street Railway in Ohio. Date unknown Yellow fever interrupts the building of the Panama Canal. A huge locust swarm crosses the Red Sea and destroys crops in the Nile Valley. Frederick Abel invents cordite. An early method of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission, as developed by the Swiss engineer René Thury,