1899
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'''1899''' was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
January 1 - End of Spain|Spanish rule in Cuba.
January 1 - Queens and Staten Island, New York|Staten Island merge with New York City.
January 6 - George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|Lord Curzon becomes 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 Australia|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 Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
March
March 1 - in Afghanistan timeline 1896-1900|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 4 - Cyclone ''Mahina'' sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
March 6 - Felix Hoffman patents Aspirin.
March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
March 20 - At Sing Sing (prison)|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, 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 invented by English entrepreneur Roger Malcolm Taylor.
July
July 17 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japan|Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
July 19 - The Newsboys of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2). http://homepage.mac.com/jmar/newsies/history.html July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the Hague Convention.
September
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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.
Unknown Dates
International Council of Nurses is founded.
San Pellegrino is first bottled.
Births
January-March
January 7 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, English actress (d. 1991)
January 12 - Paul Hermann Muller|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 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
January 17 - Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
January 30 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
February 3 - Doris Speed, English actress (d. 1994)
February 3 - Lao She, Chinese author (d. 1966)
February 6 - Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
February 15 - Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)
February 22 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
February 22 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
February 23 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
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 in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
March 18 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (d. 1962)
March 28 - Harold B. Lee, president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
April-June
April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian fascist leader (d. 1968)
April 7 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (d. 1977)
April 23 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
April 24 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
April 27 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
April 29 - Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974)
May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
May 10 - Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987)
May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
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 in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
June 30 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1971)
July
July 5 - Marcel Achard, French play and scriptwriter (d. 1974)
July 7 - George Cukor, American film director (d. 1983)
July 11 - E. B. White, English writer (d. 1985)
July 15 - Sean Lemass, Taoiseach 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, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
July 22 - King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)
August-October
August 4 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|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)
August 24 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1983)
September 3 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
September 9 - Brassaï, French photographer (d. 1984)
September 9 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d. 1984)
October 1 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
October 19 - Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
November-December
November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
November 17 - Douglas Shearer, film sound engineer (d. 1971)
November 18 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (d. 1985)
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 31 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)
Unknown date
Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (d. 1973)
Deaths
January 23 - Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (b. 1831)
February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born news agency founder (b. 1816)
June 3 - Johann Strauss II|Johann Strauss, Jr., Austrian composer (b. 1825)
June 10 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
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)
November 21 - Garret A. Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d.1844)
November 24 - Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. 1846)
December 10 - King Ngwane V of Swaziland
December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)
William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
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