Historical Events In 1899

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

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

Jan 03   On this day in history 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) on this day in history.  

Jan 06   In the year 1899 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   Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's in the year 1899.  

Jan 08   Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59) on this day in history.  

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

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   In the year 1899 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) on this day in history.  

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

Jan 17   Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging) on this day in history.  

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

Jan 17   In the year 1899 uS takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific  

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   In the year 1899 alexander Tcherepnin, composer  

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

Jan 22   On this day in history guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)  

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

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

Jan 23   Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic in the year 1899.  

Jan 23   On this day in history joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)  

Jan 24   On this day in history belgium govt of Vandenpeereboom forms  

Jan 24   Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan in the year 1899.  

Jan 25   Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces) in the year 1899.  

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 in the year 1899.  

Jan 28   Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger on this day in history.  

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer  

Jan 01   Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 01   Raymond Loucheur, composer was born in the year 1899.  

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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1899.  

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)  

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

Jan 12   On this day in history death of hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)  

Jan 25   Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies in the year 1899.  

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

Feb 06   Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Feb 11   In the year 1899 george Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies  

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.