Historical Events In 1899

Jan 01   Cuba liberated from Spain by US in the year 1899.   

Jan 02   Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer in the year 1899.   

Jan 03   In the year 1899 the first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.   

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

Jan 06   Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory) in the year 1899.   

Jan 07   In the year 1899 francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)   

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

Jan 08   On this day in history solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)   

Jan 09   Manitobans suffer record low temperature of -52.8 Celsius (-63 F)0 on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

Jan 12   Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948) on this day in history.   

Jan 13   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 in the year 1899.   

Jan 14   On this day in history fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo)   

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   In the year 1899 the birth of Al Capone, American gangster   

Jan 17   US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific in the year 1899.   

Jan 19   Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms on this day in history.   

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

Jan 20   On this day in history alexander Tcherepnin, composer   

Jan 21   In the year 1899 opel manufactured its first automobile.   

Jan 22   Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany) in the year 1899.   

Jan 22   In the year 1899 leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss a federation bill.   

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

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

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   Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies in the year 1899.   

Jan 26   Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One) in the year 1899.   

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   In the year 1899 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 in the year 1899.   

Jan 02   Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)   

Jan 07   In the year 1899 birth of kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)   

Jan 10   Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69 in the year 1899.   

Jan 12   Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816) died on this day in history.   

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

Jan 29   On this day in history alfred Sisley, painter, dies   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 18   On this day in history m Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56