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Everything about 1899 totally explainedYear 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday
of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
Although this year is often held to be the last of the nineteenth century, 1900 is technically the last year according to the "traditional" reckoning.
Events of 1899
January - March
April - June
June 12 - A tornado completely destroys the town of New Richmond, Wisconsin, killing 117 and injuring more than 200
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 first patented by Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor.(External Link )
June 30 - Mile-a-Minute Murphy earned his famous nickname this day after he became the first man to ride a bicycle for one mile in under a minute on Long Island.
July - September
July 17
July 19 - The Newsboys Strike takes place when the Newsies of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2).
July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the Hague Convention.
August 3 - The John Marshall Law School was founded in Chicago, Illinois.
August 17 - A hurricane makes landfall in North Carolina's Outer Banks, completely destroying the town of Diamond City.
August 28 - 122 houses, smelting factory, hospital, many facilities destroyed on hill, cause by heavy rain with debris blow, at Sumitomo Besshi bronze mine erea, Niihama, Shikoku, Japan, at least 512 killed.
September 13 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
September 19 - Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned.
October - December
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 4 - Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority is founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
November 8 - The Bronx Zoo opens.
November 16 - Lithuanian doctor, poet, and national hero Vincas Kudirka dies of tuberculosis at age 40.
November 29 - F.C. Barcelona, one of the most successful football clubs in the world, is founded.
December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought; General Gregorio del Pilar and his troops are able to guard the retreat of Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo before being wiped out.
December 16 - A.C. Milan, one of the most successful football clubs in the world, is founded.
December 16 - Augusta, KY Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure.
December 26 - Battle of Mafeking begins.
December 31 - A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the last time this has happened.
Undated
David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie.
International Council of Nurses is founded.
San Pellegrino is first bottled.
The significance of oracle bones is discovered.
Kmart is founded.
The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Manteo, which was originally laid out as the Dare county seat in 1870.
Scott Joplin composes Maple Leaf Rag, known as one of the most famous ragtime pieces of all time.
Births
January - June
January 1 - Jack Beresford, British olympic rower (d.1977)
January 6 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automotive engineer, managing director of Volkswagen (d. 1968)
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
January 20 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (d. 1990)
January 21 - John Bodkin Adams, suspected British serial killer (d. 1983)
January 30 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
February 3
February 6 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
February 7 - Earl Whitehill, baseball player (d. 1954)
February 15
February 17 - Leo Najo, baseball player (d. 1978)
February 22
February 23 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
February 26
February 27 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
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, French-born musician (d. 1962)
March 24 - Dorothy C. Stratton, director of the SPARS during World War II (d. 2006)
March 27 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
March 28 - Harold B. Lee, eleventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
March 29 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet official (d. 1953)
April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian fascist leader (d. 1968)
April 7 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
April 21 - Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (d. 1975)
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, animator (d. 1994)
April 29 - Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974)
May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
May 10
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 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 26 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, (d, 1918)
June 27 - Juan Trippe, airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (d. 1981)
June 30 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1971)
July - December
July 1-Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., fictional professer of archaeology and adventurer
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 humorus writer (d. 1985)
July 15 - Seán Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
July 17 - James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
July 21
July 22 - King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)
August 4 - Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (d. 1980)
August 24
August 29 -
September 1 - Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, Russian-born writer of the Soviet period (d. 1951)
September 3 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
September 9
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)
September 17 - Harold Bennett, British actor (d. 1981)
October 1 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
October 3 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
October 5 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1962)
October 19 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
October 20 - Evelyn Brent, American actress (d. 1975)
November 15
November 17 - Douglas Shearer, film sound engineer (d. 1971)
November 18 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (d. 1985)
November 21 - Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967)
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)
date unknown - Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (d. 1973)
» See also .
Deaths
January - June
January 23 - Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (b. 1831)
February 6
February 16 - Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841)
February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born news agency founder (b. 1816)
March 3 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
March 6 - Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii, Last monarch of Hawaii. (b. 1875)
April 5 - T. E. Ellis, Welsh politician (b. 1859)
April 16 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
June 3 - Johann Strauss, Jr., Austrian composer (b. 1825)
June 10 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
July - December
July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
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)
September 17 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, industrialist (b. 1842)
October 2 - Percy Pilcher, aviation pioneer & glider pilot, (b. 1866)
October 30 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
November 21 - Garret A. Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
November 23 - Thomas Henry Ismay, White Star Line flag purchaser, and some say the founder.
November 24 - Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. 1846)
December 2 - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (b. 1875)
December 10 - King Ngwane V of Swaziland (b. 1876)
December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)
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