Page 6: Historical Events In 1899

May 31   -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails in the year 1899.   

May 31   Conference of Bloemfontein fails in the year 1899.   

May 31   Leonid Leonow, writer in the year 1899.   

Jun 01   On this day in history cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last   

Jun 01   On this day in history werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)   

Jun 02   Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings in the year 1899.   

Jun 02   On this day in history royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman)   

Jun 03   Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961) on this day in history.   

Jun 03   Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73 in the year 1899.   

Jun 03   In the year 1899 w G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days   

Jun 04   Leo Spies, composer in the year 1899.   

Jun 05   On this day in history alfred Dreyfus' acquitted   

Jun 07   On this day in history elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters)   

Jun 09   James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavywgt boxing title in the year 1899.   

Jun 10   Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44 in the year 1899.   

Jun 10   On this day in history improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati   

Jun 10   Improved Benevolent &Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati on this day in history.   

Jun 10   In the year 1899 raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)   

Jun 11   George Frederick McKay, composer in the year 1899.   

Jun 12   In the year 1899 new Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200.   

Jun 13   In the year 1899 carlos Chavez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfonia India)   

Jun 14   Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968) on this day in history.   

Jun 16   Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday) on this day in history.   

Jun 16   In the year 1899 victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's   

Jun 18   On this day in history james Ralph Darling, teacher   

Jun 18   In the year 1899 the CP line from Lethbridge through Crows Nest Pass to Kootenay Landing is opened for traffic. This was built with subsidies afforded by the Crows Nest Pass Agreement of 1897 which also set fixed rates on grain traffic.   

Jun 19   George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei) on this day in history.   

Jun 20   On this day in history anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer   

Jun 21   In the year 1899 pavel Haas, composer   

Jun 22   In the year 1899 dorothy Devore, Ft Worth TX, actress (Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil)   

Jun 23   Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer on this day in history.   

Jun 24   On this day in history bruce Marshall, writer   

Jun 29   In the year 1899 brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage   

Jun 30   Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   In the year 1899 birth of juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu)   

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   In the year 1899 birth of paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)   

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

Jan 07   Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches) was born in the year 1899.   

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 in the year 1899.   

Jan 25   Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies in the year 1899.   

Jan 29   Alfred Sisley, painter, dies in the year 1899.   

Feb 06   Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Feb 11   George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 16   On this day in history francois Félix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57   

Feb 18   M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56 on this day in history.