Today in History for January 1899
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Months in 1899: February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 13 of 13
1st - Cuba liberated from Spain by US (Natl Day) (US occupies till 1902)
1st - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
3rd - The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
5th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
7th - Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
17th - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
19th - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
21st - Opel manufactured its first automobile.
22nd - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
23rd - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
24th - Belgium govt of Vandenpeereboom forms
24th - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
28th - American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 32 of 32
1st - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer
1st - Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu)
1st - Raymond Loucheur, composer
2nd - Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
2nd - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)
6th - Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)
7th - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)
7th - Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)
8th - Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)
11th - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
12th - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
12th - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
13th - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
14th - Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo)
14th - Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985)
15th - Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
17th - Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
17th - Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice)
17th - Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian
17th - Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)
19th - [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer
20th - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
20th - Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC)
22nd - Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
23rd - Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)
23rd - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
25th - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)
26th - Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One)
27th - Granville English, composer
28th - Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
28th - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
30th - Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
10th - Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
12th - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
25th - Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies
29th - Alfred Sisley, painter, dies
29th - Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75
