Today in History for Year 1899

Months in Year 1899: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 138

Jan 1st - Cuba liberated from Spain by US (Natl Day) (US occupies till 1902)
Jan 1st - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
Jan 3rd - The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
Jan 5th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
Jan 7th - Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
Jan 17th - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
Jan 19th - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
Jan 21st - Opel manufactured its first automobile.
Jan 22nd - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
Jan 23rd - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
Jan 24th - Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms
Jan 24th - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
Jan 28th - American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
Feb 2nd - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.
Feb 4th - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
Feb 4th - The Philippine-American War begins.
Feb 6th - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
Feb 10th - -39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
Feb 10th - US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam
Feb 11th - -15°F (-26°C), Washington, DC (district record)
Feb 11th - -61°F, Montana (record low temperature)
Feb 12th - -47°F (-44°C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)
Feb 12th - 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC
Feb 13th - -16°F (-27°C), Minden Louisiana (state record)
Feb 13th - -1°F (-18°C) New Orleans, La
Feb 13th - -2°F (-19°C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)
Feb 14th - US Congress begins using voting machines
Feb 16th - Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (Eng v SA Johannesburg)
Feb 16th - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.
Feb 16th - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.
Feb 18th - 80°F in SF
Feb 18th - SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
Feb 18th - Stanley Cup: Mont Shamrocks sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
Feb 20th - Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
Feb 24th - Western Washington University is established.
Mar 2nd - Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th in US)
Mar 3rd - Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
Mar 3rd - George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
Mar 4th - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
Mar 5th - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D
Mar 6th - "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
Mar 14th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2
Mar 17th - Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
Mar 18th - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
Mar 21st - British & French accord about West-Africa
Apr 1st - NC Mutual opens doors for business
Apr 4th - South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)
Apr 11th - Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
Apr 18th - John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager
Apr 18th - The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
Apr 19th - 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Mass in 2:54:38
Apr 24th - Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
May 4th - 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
May 8th - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
May 9th - Lawn mower patented
May 17th - Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid, London, England
May 18th - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
May 24th - 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
May 25th - 33rd Belmont: R Clawson aboard Jean Beraud wins in 2:23
May 30th - 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
May 31st - -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
May 31st - Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
Jun 1st - Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last
Jun 2nd - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
Jun 3rd - W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days
Jun 5th - Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted
Jun 9th - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
Jun 10th - Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
Jun 12th - New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200.
Jun 16th - Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's
Jun 29th - Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
Jun 30th - Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
Jul 1st - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
Jul 1st - SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
Jul 19th - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
Jul 29th - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
Jul 29th - Southern California Golf Association forms
Jul 29th - The First Hague Convention is signed.
Jul 31st - Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's
Aug 15th - Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
Sep 4th - 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska
Sep 6th - Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
Sep 6th - US min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"
Sep 8th - British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa
Sep 9th - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds
Sep 10th - 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
Sep 13th - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
Sep 14th - Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality in the US (NY)
Sep 15th - 5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
Sep 17th - 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa
Sep 28th - Transvaal mobilizes
Oct 2nd - Orange Free state mobilizes
Oct 3rd - J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner
Oct 9th - 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa
Oct 9th - South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
Oct 10th - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
Oct 11th - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
Oct 12th - South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England
Oct 13th - 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill Oct 14th - Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 338

Jan 1st - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer
Jan 1st - Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu)
Jan 1st - Raymond Loucheur, composer
Jan 2nd - Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
Jan 2nd - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)
Jan 6th - Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)
Jan 7th - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)
Jan 7th - Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)
Jan 8th - Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)
Jan 11th - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
Jan 12th - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
Jan 12th - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
Jan 13th - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
Jan 14th - Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo)
Jan 14th - Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985)
Jan 15th - Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
Jan 17th - Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
Jan 17th - Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice)
Jan 17th - Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian
Gangster Al Capone (Jan 17th) Jan 17th - Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)
Jan 19th - [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer
Jan 20th - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
Jan 20th - Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC)
Jan 22nd - Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
Jan 23rd - Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)
Jan 23rd - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
Jan 25th - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)
Jan 26th - Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One)
Jan 27th - Granville English, composer
Jan 28th - Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
Jan 28th - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
Jan 30th - Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
Feb 2nd - Benny Rubin, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show)
Feb 3rd - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street)
Feb 3rd - Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
Feb 3rd - João Café Filho, Brazilian president (m.1970)
Feb 3rd - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
Feb 6th - Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], Durango Mexico, actor (Ben Hur)
Feb 7th - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
Feb 12th - Albert Huybrechts, composer
Feb 14th - John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
Feb 15th - Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio)
Feb 15th - Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer
Feb 15th - Lillian Disney, Mrs Walt Disney
Feb 18th - Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II)
Feb 19th - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
Feb 20th - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
Feb 20th - Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
Feb 22nd - Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
Feb 22nd - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
Feb 22nd - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
Feb 23rd - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
Feb 23rd - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
Feb 24th - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
Feb 25th - Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
Feb 26th - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
Feb 27th - Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)
Feb 27th - Ian Keith, Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
Feb 27th - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer
Feb 27th - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
Feb 28th - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist
Mar 1st - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
Mar 2nd - Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian dame
Mar 3rd - Alfred M Gruenther, US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
Mar 3rd - Juri Olescha, writer
Mar 4th - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
Mar 5th - Patrick Hadley, composer
Mar 8th - Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows)
Mar 8th - Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984)
Mar 10th - Finn Hoffding, composer
Mar 10th - Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007)
Mar 11th - Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72)
Mar 13th - Pancho Vladigerov, composer
Mar 13th - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956)
Mar 14th - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
Mar 15th - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
Mar 18th - Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
Mar 23rd - Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
Mar 25th - Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
Mar 25th - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men)
Mar 25th - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
Mar 26th - James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
Mar 26th - William Baines, composer
Actress Gloria Swanson (Mar 27th) Mar 27th - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)
Mar 28th - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
Mar 28th - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
Mar 28th - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
Mar 30th - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM)
Mar 30th - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, well known Bengali writer (d. 1970)
Apr 1st - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
Apr 3rd - Cees Lasseur, Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy)
Apr 3rd - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
Apr 4th - William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23)
Apr 5th - William Hornby Steer, barrister/judge
Apr 7th - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
Apr 11th - Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
Apr 13th - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer
Apr 13th - Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor (Scrabble)
Apr 13th - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher
Apr 16th - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 61 of 61

Jan 10th - Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
Jan 12th - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
Jan 25th - Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies
Jan 29th - Alfred Sisley, painter, dies
Jan 29th - Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75
Feb 6th - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67
Feb 6th - Prince Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
Feb 11th - George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies
Feb 16th - Francois Félix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57
Feb 18th - M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56
Feb 25th - Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies
Mar 1st - Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
Mar 3rd - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
Mar 6th - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
Mar 14th - Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76
Mar 16th - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
Mar 18th - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76
Mar 18th - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35
Mar 20th - Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to be executed in an electric chair.
Mar 20th - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
Mar 24th - Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies
Apr 16th - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b 1875)
Apr 17th - Hans Balatka, composer, dies at 74
Apr 20th - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
Apr 21st - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80
Apr 22nd - E J (Ned) Gregory, cricketer (one Test for Aust), dies
May 1st - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
May 15th - Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70
May 25th - Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French painter, dies at 68
May 29th - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60
Jun 3rd - Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73
Jun 10th - Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
Jun 30th - Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
Jul 12th - Esquire Mauritius A de Savornin Lohman, gov of Suriname, dies at 67
Jul 18th - Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies
Jul 21st - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
Aug 16th - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
Sep 8th - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78
Sep 14th - Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (NYC)
Sep 17th - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
Sep 28th - Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies
Oct 5th - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer, dies at 57
Oct 20th - Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, Brit colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle
Oct 23rd - W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
Oct 28th - C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies
Oct 28th - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
Oct 30th - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
Nov 19th - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Medea), dies at 55
Nov 20th - Carl A E Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish translator, dies at 63
Nov 21st - Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th VP, dies
Nov 24th - Abdullah ibn Mohammed al-Ta'a'ishi, mahdi of Sudan (1883-99), dies
Nov 25th - Robert Lowry, composer, dies at 73
Nov 27th - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer, dies at 74
Nov 28th - Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19
Dec 2nd - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (b. 1875)
Dec 7th - Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82
Dec 11th - Andrew Wauchope, British Major-General, dies in Battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war, South Africa. Another British Major, The Marquess of Winchester also killed.
Dec 17th - Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle
Dec 18th - John William Glover, composer, dies at 84
Dec 22nd - Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies
Dec 30th - James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85