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1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Although popular belief holds this year as the last of the Nineteenth century, 1900 was in fact technically the true last year.

    1899
        Events
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Events

The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Manteo, which was originally laid out as the Dare county seat in 1870.

January

January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba.

January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City.

January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India.

January 10 - Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity is founded at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.

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.

January 24 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan

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 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 Hoffmann patents Aspirin.

March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.

March 8 - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for Eintracht Frankfurt is founded

March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.

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.*

July

July 17 - America's first juvenile court is established in Chicago.

July 17 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

July 17 - The French Bretonnet-Braun mission is destroyed in the battle of Togbao, in Chad, by the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

July 19 - The Newsboys Strike takes place when the Newsies 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 - 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

November 8 - The Bronx Zoo opens

November 16 - Lithuanian doctor, poet, and national hero Vincas Kudirka dies of tuberculosis at age 40.

November 29 - FC Barcelona is founded.

December

December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

December 16 Augusta, KY Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure

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.

The significance of oracle bones is discovered.

Kmart is founded.

January

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 - 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

February 3 - Doris Speed, English actress (d. 1994)

February 3 - Lao She, Chinese author (d. 1966)

February 6 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)

February 7 - Earl Whitehill, baseball player (d. 1954)

February 15 - Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)

February 15 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)

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 26 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)

February 26 - Alec Campbell, Australian Solider who fought in the Battle of Gallipoli (d. 2002)

February 27 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)

March

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, Greek-born musician (d. 1962)

March 24 - Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the SPARS during World War II (d. 2006)

March 28 - Harold B. Lee, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)

March 29 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet official (d. 1953)

April

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 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

May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, 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

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 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 10 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)

July 11 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)

July 15 - Sean Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)

July 17 - James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)

July 21 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)

July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)

July 22 - King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)

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)

August 24 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1983)

August 29 - Lyman Lemnitzer, American general (d. 1988)

September

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 - Brassaï, French photographer (d. 1984)

September 9 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d. 1984)

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)

October

October 1 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)

October 3 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)

October 19 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

October 20 - Evelyn Brent, American actress (d. 1975)

November

November 15 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d. 1990)

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)

November 21 - Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967)

December

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)

Unknown date

Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (d. 1973)

Deaths

January 23 - Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (b. 1831)

February 6 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)

February 6 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1874)

February 16 - Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841)

February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born news agency founder (b. 1816)

March 6 - Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii, Last monarch of Hawaii. (b. 1875)

June 3 - 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)

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 24 - Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. 1846)

December 10 - King Ngwane V of Swaziland (b. 1876)

December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)

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