He eclipsed the long-standing record of 51. 88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair ( 106 out of 177 and 4 out of 35 ) against England at Cape Town in an 1898 – 1899 series.

* John J. Cone, the fourth Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus from 1898 to 1899

* 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.

In 1899, J. J. Thomson investigated ultraviolet light in Crookes tubes.

* In the King's Favour ( 1899 ) by J. E. Preston Muddock.

* Fortescue, J. W. A History of the British Army, MacMillan, London, 1899, Vol.

* Article Baal ( PDF format ) by W. Robertson Smith and George F. Moore in Encyclopædia Biblica, edited T. K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, MacMillan: London, 1899.

* Orígines históricos de Cataluña, by J. Balari y Jovany, Establecimiento Tipográfico de Hijos de Jaime Jesús, ( Barcelona, 1899 )

In 1899, J A McWilliam reported in the British Medical Journal of his experiments in which application of an electrical impulse to the human heart in asystole caused a ventricular contraction and that a heart rhythm of 60-70 beats per minute could be evoked by impulses applied at spacings equal to 60-70 / minute.

The J. H. Walker Company opened a mercantile business in 1876 and J. C. Hatcher opened a store in 1899.

Saint Paul Catholic Church ( Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan ) | Saint Paul on the Lake Catholic Church ( 1899 ) in Grosse Pointe Farms, one of many landmarks along Lakeshore Drive-French Gothic by Harry J. Rill.

The first settler, N. J. Whitfield, arrived in 1899.

Theda Arnold, present ( 1979 ) Post Master has copies of the National Archives Records showing later post masters to include, S. J. Robb, 1889 ; Dement Brown, 1891 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1892 ; Benjamin F. Yoder, 1893 ; Jerome S. Rice, 1895 ; Wiliam H. Beck, 1899 ; Oscar Yoder, 1901 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1903 ; Martha A. Miskimins, 1904 ; William R. Kirlin, 1928 ; Verna Bess Coen, 1954 ( acting ); Dale E. Howery, 1956 ; Theda Arnold, 1972, up to present day.

Otherwise, Balakirev remained without a publisher until 1899, when he met the Saint Petersburg music publisher J. H.

* Fortescue, J. W .. A History of the British Army, Macmillan, London, 1899, Vol.

* Mackail, J. W., The Life of William Morris in two volumes, London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899.

** A re-issue of the 1899 edition of Waite, with an additional foreword by " J. H.

In 1899, Fitzsimmons and James J. Jeffries succeeded in boxing in New York without the police intervening, probably at an underground club.

Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944 – 1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947 – 1949 ; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process ; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration.

Franklin Pierce ( 1826 ) was America's fourteenth President ; Melville Weston Fuller ( 1853 ) served as Chief Justice of the United States ; Thomas Brackett Reed ( 1860 ) was twice elected Speaker of the House of Representatives ; and Wallace H. White, Jr. ( 1899 ) and George J. Mitchell ( 1954 ) both served as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

But, standard conventional epochs which are not Besselian epochs have been often designated nowadays with a prefix " J ", and the calendar date to which they refer is widely known, although not always the same date in the year: thus " J2000 " refers to the instant of 12h on 1 January 2000, and J1900 refers to the instant of 12h ( midday ) on 0 January 1900, equal to 31 Dec 1899.

In 1899, Parliament erected a statue to Cromwell in Westminster, facing Whitehall and there, presumably, he still stands.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

The Continental Gin Co. began operations in Dallas in 1899.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

André-Louis Debierne, a French chemist, announced the discovery of a new element in 1899.

In 1899, Debierne described the substance as similar to titanium and ( in 1900 ) as similar to thorium.

Articles published in the 1970s and later suggest that Debierne's results published in 1904 conflict with those reported in 1899 and 1900.

* 1823 – Joseph Medill, American editor, publisher, and politician ( d. 1899 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

He completed his theology degree in 1899 and published his PhD thesis at the University of Tübingen in 1899.

In 1899 he astonished Widor by explaining figures and motifs in Bach's Chorale Preludes as painter-like tonal and rhythmic imagery illustrating themes from the words of the hymns on which they were based.

In 1899 Schweitzer became a deacon at the church Saint-Nicolas of Strasbourg.

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

In Bulgaria, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union ( BZNS ) was organized in 1899 to resist taxes and build cooperatives.

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )