Historical Events In 1899

Jan 01   Cuba liberated from Spain by US on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer in the year 1899.   

Jan 03   On this day in history the first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.   

Jan 05   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG) on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory) in the year 1899.   

Jan 07   In the year 1899 francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)   

Jan 07   Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's in the year 1899.   

Jan 08   On this day in history solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)   

Jan 09   In the year 1899 manitobans suffer record low temperature of -52.8 Celsius (-63 F)0   

Jan 10   In the year 1899 gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69   

Jan 12   In the year 1899 paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)   

Jan 13   The Canadian Northern Railway is formed by the amalgamation of the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway and the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. William Mackenzie and Donald Mann then proceeded to expand the Canadian Northern system so that by 1915 the system comprised 9,362 miles of trackage on this day in history.   

Jan 14   Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo) on this day in history.   

Jan 15   Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman) on this day in history.   

Jan 17   In the year 1899 al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)   

Jan 17   On this day in history the birth of Al Capone, American gangster   

Jan 17   US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific on this day in history.   

Jan 19   Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms in the year 1899.   

Jan 19   [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer in the year 1899.   

Jan 20   In the year 1899 alexander Tcherepnin, composer   

Jan 21   On this day in history opel manufactured its first automobile.   

Jan 22   In the year 1899 guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)   

Jan 22   In the year 1899 leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss a federation bill.   

Jan 22   In the year 1899 leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.   

Jan 23   In the year 1899 emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.   

Jan 23   On this day in history joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)   

Jan 24   Belgium govt of Vandenpeereboom forms on this day in history.   

Jan 24   Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan on this day in history.   

Jan 25   In the year 1899 ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)   

Jan 25   Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies on this day in history.   

Jan 26   Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One) in the year 1899.   

Jan 27   On this day in history granville English, composer   

Jan 28   On this day in history american Social Science Association incorporated by Congress   

Jan 28   Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger in the year 1899.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history 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   Raymond Loucheur, composer was born in the year 1899.   

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   On this day in history birth of phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)   

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)   

Jan 07   In the year 1899 birth of kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)   

Jan 10   In the year 1899 gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69   

Jan 12   Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816) died on this day in history.   

Jan 25   In the year 1899 alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies   

Jan 29   Alfred Sisley, painter, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 06   In the year 1899 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   M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56 in the year 1899.