1899
1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
EventsJanuary January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 3 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times. January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes a viceroy of India. January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. January 21 - Opel Motors opens for business. January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
February February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne. February 4 - Philippine-American War begins as hostilities break out in Manila. February 6 - Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate. February 14 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
March March 1 - in Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle. March 2 - In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established. March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
June June 22-June 27 - the highest ever recorded cricket score, 628 not out, is made by A. E. J. Collins. June 25 - Three Denver newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government is going to demolish the Great Wall of China - later proved to be a fabrication.
July July 19 - The Newsboys of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2). more info July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the Hague Convention.
September September 19 ? Alfred Dreyfus pardoned.
October October 11 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
December December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. December 26 ? Battle of Mafeking begins. David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie. Gordon Douglas is ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition.
BirthsJanuary January 7 - Francis Poulenc, composer (d. 1963) January 10 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (d. 1991) January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (d. 1991) January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 (d. 1965) January 15 - Goodman Ace, actor, comedian, writer (d. 1982) January 17 - Al Capone, gangster, nicknamed "Scarface" (d. 1947) January 17 - Nevil Shute, author (d. 1960)
February February 6 - Ramon Novarro, actor (d. 1968) February 15 - Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983) February 22 - Dechko Uzunov, painter (d. 1986) February 23 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974) February 23 - Elisabeth Langgässer, lyricist, narrator and novelist (d. 1950) February 27 - Charles Best, medical scientist (d. 1978)
March March 11 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972) March 18 - Jean Goldkette, jazz musician (d. 1962)
April April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, politician (d. 1968) April 7 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972) April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (d. 1977) April 24 - Oscar Zariski, mathematician (d. 1986) April 27 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994) April 28 - Harold B. Lee, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973) April 29 - Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974)
May May 10 - Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987) May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (d. 1979) May 12 - Indra Devi, yogi (d. 2002) May 15 - Jean Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970) May 24 ? Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player (d. 1938)
June June 2 - Lotte Reiniger, German and later British silhouette animator (d. 1981) June 13 - Carlos Chávez, composer (d. 1978) June 30 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (d. 1971)
July July 5 - Marcel Achard, play and scriptwriter July 7 - George Cukor, film director (d. 1983) July 11 - E. B. White, English writer July 15 - Sean Lemass, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1971) July 17 - James Cagney, actor (d. 1986) July 21 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932) July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer and recipient of the Nobel prize for literature (d. 1961)
August August 4 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994) August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (d. 1980) August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
September-October September 9 - Brassaï, photographer September 9 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984) September 14 - José Mojica, Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1974) October 19 - Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer (d. 1974)
November November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969) November 17 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (d. 1971) November 18 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (d. 1985)
December December 2 - John Barbirolli, conductor (d. 1970) December 15 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978) December 16 - Noel Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music (d. 1973) December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990) December 25 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (d. 1957) December 28 - Eugeniusz Bodo, famous Polish actor (killed in 1943)
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