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1899 Calendar

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•  January 19, 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
•  January 21, 1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
•  January 23, 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
•  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.
•  March 6, 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
•  April 18, 1899 – The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
•  May 8, 1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
•  June 7, 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
•  July 17, 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
•  July 29, 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.

•  January 22, 1899 – Martti Haavio, Finnish poet (d. 1973)
•  May 5, 1899 – Freeman Gosden, American radio comedian (Amos-Amos ‘n’Andy) (d. 1982)
•  May 12, 1899 – Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
•  May 24, 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
•  June 3, 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
•  July 17, 1899 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
•  August 12, 1899 – Ben Sealey, Trinidadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1963)
•  August 19, 1899 – Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
•  September 23, 1899 – Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
•  November 26, 1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)