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1899 Calendar

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•  January 21, 1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
•  February 2, 1899 – The Australian Premiers’ Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia’s capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
•  February 6, 1899 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
•  February 16, 1899 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
•  March 4, 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland, killing over 300.
•  May 30, 1899 – Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
•  June 27, 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
•  October 11, 1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
•  December 2, 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed “The Filipino Thermopylae”, is fought.

•  January 21, 1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
•  January 22, 1899 – Martti Haavio, Finnish poet (d. 1973)
•  February 15, 1899 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)
•  May 25, 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet and musician (d. 1976)
•  June 4, 1899 – Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
•  June 30, 1899 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
•  August 2, 1899 – Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
•  November 19, 1899 – Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)