Historical Events In 1899

Jan 01   Cuba liberated from Spain by US on this day in history.  

Jan 02   In the year 1899 alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer  

Jan 03   The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times on this day in history.  

Jan 05   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG) in the year 1899.  

Jan 06   On this day in history phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)  

Jan 07   Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches) in the year 1899.  

Jan 07   On this day in history walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's  

Jan 08   In the year 1899 solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)  

Jan 09   In the year 1899 manitobans suffer record low temperature of -52.8 Celsius (-63 F)0  

Jan 10   In the year 1899 gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69  

Jan 12   On this day in history paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)  

Jan 13   On this day in history the Canadian Northern Railway is formed by the amalgamation of the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway and the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. William Mackenzie and Donald Mann then proceeded to expand the Canadian Northern system so that by 1915 the system comprised 9,362 miles of trackage.  

Jan 14   Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo) in the year 1899.  

Jan 15   Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman) on this day in history.  

Jan 17   On this day in history al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)  

Jan 17   On this day in history the birth of Al Capone, American gangster  

Jan 17   On this day in history uS takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific  

Jan 19   On this day in history anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms  

Jan 19   In the year 1899 [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer  

Jan 20   Alexander Tcherepnin, composer in the year 1899.  

Jan 21   Opel manufactured its first automobile on this day in history.  

Jan 22   Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany) on this day in history.  

Jan 22   Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss a federation bill on this day in history.  

Jan 22   Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation in the year 1899.  

Jan 23   On this day in history emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.  

Jan 23   Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts) in the year 1899.  

Jan 24   Belgium govt of Vandenpeereboom forms in the year 1899.  

Jan 24   Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan on this day in history.  

Jan 25   In the year 1899 ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)  

Jan 25   In the year 1899 alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies  

Jan 26   In the year 1899 wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One)  

Jan 27   Granville English, composer in the year 1899.  

Jan 28   American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress on this day in history.  

Jan 28   On this day in history zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger  

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Jan 01   Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer was born in the year 1899.  

Jan 01   In the year 1899 birth of lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu)  

Jan 01   In the year 1899 birth of raymond Loucheur, composer  

Jan 02   Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)  

Jan 06   In the year 1899 birth of phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)  

Jan 07   Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 07   Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 10   On this day in history gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69  

Jan 12   Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816) died in the year 1899.  

Jan 25   On this day in history alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies  

Jan 29   Alfred Sisley, painter, dies in the year 1899.  

Feb 06   In the year 1899 georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67  

Feb 11   George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies on this day in history.  

Feb 16   Francois Félix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57 in the year 1899.  

Feb 18   M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56 in the year 1899.