Page 6: Historical Events In 1899

May 31   -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails in the year 1899.   

May 31   In the year 1899 conference of Bloemfontein fails   

May 31   Leonid Leonow, writer on this day in history.   

Jun 01   On this day in history cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last   

Jun 01   Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) on this day in history.   

Jun 02   On this day in history black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings   

Jun 02   On this day in history royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman)   

Jun 03   Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961) on this day in history.   

Jun 03   Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73 in the year 1899.   

Jun 03   On this day in history w G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days   

Jun 04   On this day in history leo Spies, composer   

Jun 05   Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted in the year 1899.   

Jun 07   Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters) on this day in history.   

Jun 09   On this day in history james J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavywgt boxing title   

Jun 10   Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44 in the year 1899.   

Jun 10   Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati on this day in history.   

Jun 10   On this day in history improved Benevolent &Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati   

Jun 10   On this day in history raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)   

Jun 11   In the year 1899 george Frederick McKay, composer   

Jun 12   New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200 on this day in history.   

Jun 13   Carlos Chavez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfonia India) on this day in history.   

Jun 14   In the year 1899 kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)   

Jun 16   Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday) in the year 1899.   

Jun 16   Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's in the year 1899.   

Jun 18   James Ralph Darling, teacher on this day in history.   

Jun 18   In the year 1899 the CP line from Lethbridge through Crows Nest Pass to Kootenay Landing is opened for traffic. This was built with subsidies afforded by the Crows Nest Pass Agreement of 1897 which also set fixed rates on grain traffic.   

Jun 19   George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei) in the year 1899.   

Jun 20   Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer on this day in history.   

Jun 21   In the year 1899 pavel Haas, composer   

Jun 22   On this day in history dorothy Devore, Ft Worth TX, actress (Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil)   

Jun 23   Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer in the year 1899.   

Jun 24   Bruce Marshall, writer on this day in history.   

Jun 29   On this day in history brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage   

Jun 30   Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   In the year 1899 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   On this day in history birth of raymond Loucheur, composer   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer   

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

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   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   On this day in history georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67   

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

Feb 16   In the year 1899 francois Félix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57   

Feb 18   In the year 1899 m Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56