1899

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1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 June 1.5 July 1.6 September 1.7 October 1.8 November 1.9 December 1.10 Unknown Dates 2 Births 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December 2.13 Unknown date 3 Deaths

Events

• The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Manteo, which was originally laid out as the Dare county seat in 1870.

January

• January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba.
• January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City.
• January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India.
• January 10 - Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity is founded at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.
• January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island.
• January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• January 21 - Opel Motors opens for business.
• January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
• January 24 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan

February

• February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
• February 4 - Philippine-American War begins as hostilities break out in Manila.
• February 6 - Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
• February 14 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

March

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• March 1 - in Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.
• March 2 - In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
• March 4 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
• March 6 - Felix Hoffman patents Aspirin.
• March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
• March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.

June

• June 22–June 27 - the highest ever recorded cricket score, 628 not out, is made by A. E. J. Collins.
• June 25 - Three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government under the Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the Great Wall of China - later proved to be a fabrication.
• June 27 The paperclip was invented by English entrepreneur Roger Malcolm Taylor.

July

• July 17 - America's first juvenile court is established in Chicago.
• July 17 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• July 19 - The Newsboys Strike takes place when the Newsies of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2). more info
• July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the Hague Convention.

September

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• September 19 - Alfred Dreyfus pardoned.

October

• October 11 - Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
• October 30 Augusta, KY Augusta High School Building is completed. Augusta Methodist College shuts down.

November

• November 16 - Lithuanian doctor, poet, and national hero Vincas Kudirka dies of tuberculosis at age 40.

December

• December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
• December 16 Augusta, KY Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure
• December 26 ? Battle of Mafeking begins.
• David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie.
• Gordon Douglas is ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition.

Unknown Dates

• International Council of Nurses is founded.
• San Pellegrino is first bottled.
• The significance of oracle bones is discovered.

Births

January

• January 7 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
• January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, English actress (d. 1991)
• January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
• January 15 - Goodman Ace, American actor, comedian, and writer (d. 1982)
• January 17 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
• January 17 - Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
• January 30 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)

February

• February 3 - Doris Speed, English actress (d. 1994)
• February 3 - Lao She, Chinese author (d. 1966)
• February 6 - Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
• February 7 - Earl Whitehill, baseball player (d. 1954)
• February 15 - Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)
• February 22 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
• February 22 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
• February 23 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
• February 26 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
• February 27 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)

March

• March 11 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)
• March 13 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
• March 18 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (d. 1962)
• March 28 - Harold B. Lee, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
• March 29 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet official (d. 1953)

April

• April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian fascist leader (d. 1968)
• April 7 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
• April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (d. 1977)
• April 23 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• April 24 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
• April 27 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
• April 29 - Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974)

May

• May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• May 10 - Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987)
• May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
• May 12 - Indra Devi, Baltic-born yogi and actress (d. 2002)
• May 15 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
• May 24 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)

June

• June 1 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (d. 1963)
• June 2 - Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette animator (d. 1981)
• June 3 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
• June 12 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
• June 13 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)
• June 14 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• June 30 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1971)

July

• July 5 - Marcel Achard, French play and scriptwriter (d. 1974)
• July 7 - George Cukor, American film director (d. 1983)
• July 10 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
• July 11 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
• July 14 - Martha Mansfield, American actress (d. 1923)
• July 15 - Sean Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
• July 17 - James Cagney, actor (d. 1986)
• July 21 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
• July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• July 22 - King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)

August

• August 4 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
• August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (d. 1980)
• August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
• August 24 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1983)

September

• September 3 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
• September 9 - Brassaï, French photographer (d. 1984)
• September 9 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d. 1984)
• September 13 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian fascist politician, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
• September 21 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)

October

• October 1 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
• October 19 - Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

November

• November 15 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d. 1990)
• November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
• November 17 - Douglas Shearer, film sound engineer (d. 1971)
• November 18 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (d. 1985)

December

• December 2 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (d. 1970)
• December 3 - Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
• December 9 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (d. 1937)
• December 15 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978)
• December 16 - Noel Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973)
• December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990)
• December 25 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
• December 28 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
• December 29 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1992)

Unknown date

• Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (d. 1973)

Deaths

• January 23 - Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (b. 1831)
• February 6 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b 1831
• February 16 - Félix Faure, President of France (b 1841)
• February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born news agency founder (b. 1816)
• March 6 - Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii, Last monarch of Hawaii. (b. 1875)
• June 3 - Johann Strauss, Jr., Austrian composer (b. 1825)
• June 10 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
• July 21 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician (b. 1833)
• August 16 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
• September 12 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (b. 1843)
• November 21 - Garret A. Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (b.1844)
• November 24 - Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. 1846)
• December 10 - King Ngwane V of Swaziland (b.1876)
• December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)
• William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)af:1899

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