Grace began his Cricketing Reminiscences ( 1899 ) by answering a question he had frequently been asked: i. e., was he " born a cricketer "?

Grace captained England in the First Test of the 1899 series against Australia at Trent Bridge, when he was 51.

Gentlemen, captained by W. G. Grace, versus Players, Lords 1899

Grace last played at Lord's for the Gentlemen in 1899 though he continued to represent the team at other venues until 1906.

Grace himself had much to say about how to play cricket in his two books Cricket ( 1891 ) and Reminiscences ( 1899 ), which were both ghost-written.

From an early age Earhart, nicknamed " Meeley " ( sometimes " Millie ") was the ringleader while younger sister ( two years her junior ), Grace Muriel Earhart ( 1899 – 1998 ), nicknamed " Pidge ," acted the dutiful follower.

Harold Bennett ( 17 September 1899 – 15 September 1981 ) was an English actor best remembered for having played ' Young Mr. Grace ' in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served ?.

On October 5, 1899, she married Henry Wise Miller at Grace Church Chapel in New York City.

* Veronica Grace Boland ( 1899 – 1982 ), American politician from Pennsylvania ; U. S. representative 1942 – 43

A contemporary view of Hawke's position in the game was expressed by Grace in his Reminiscences ( 1899 ) when he wrote that " Hawke still influences what I call the politics of the game ".

Grace in his Reminiscences ( 1899 ) commented that Hawke " succeeded in introducing an esprit de corps and a standard of discipline, from the absence of which the county had been suffering ".

The early history of Gloucestershire is dominated by the Grace family, most notably W G Grace, who was the club's original captain and held that post until his departure for London in 1899.

Gentlemen, captained by WG Grace, vs Players, Lords 1899

Caricature from 1899 showing Chicago mayor Carter Harrison, Jr., fighting against the " Allen bill ", signed by Governor John Riley Tanner that gave control of Chicago's intra-city transportation system to Yerkes

Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 ( codified in Chapter 33, Section 403 of the United States Code ) gave the Corps authority over navigable waters of the United States.

Lawrence in 1899, who gave the island its current name ; before then it was known as Hunting Island or Long Island.

In 1899 Hertz gave a Delius concert in St. James's Hall in London, which included Over the Hills and Far Away, a choral piece, Mitternachtslied, and excerpts from the opera Koanga.

1899 Queen Victoria gave the Windsor unit £ 10 to purchase uniforms ( officially the birthday of the Corps )

" Among the most famous: the Harvard Lampoon, which gave rise to the National Lampoon in 1970, The Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine ( founded in 1872 ), Princeton Tiger Magazine, the University of Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, which was founded in 1899, and the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, founded in 1908.

She gave her first public performance as a pianist at the age of 11, but in 1899 was forced to give up playing owing to piano cramp.

Hendrik Lorentz ( 1899, 1904 ) and Albert Einstein ( 1905 ) developed a different theory which became more widely accepted ; nevertheless, Abraham never gave up believing that his views were correct, since in his eyes they were based on " common sense ".

: Allegedly flew a steam-powered monoplane about half a mile and crashed into a three-story building in Pittsburgh in April or May 1899, according to a witness who gave a statement in 1934, saying he was the passenger.

Gleb Vassielievich Wataghin ( November 3, 1899, Birzula, Russian Empire – October 10, 1986, Turin, Italy ); was a Ukrainian-Italian experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and research on physics in two continents: in the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ; and in the University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

So successful was he in this object that by 1866 he was able to show results which gave a fair representation of the distribution of rainfall, and the number of recorders gradually increased until the last volume of British Rainfall which he lived to edit ( that for 1899 ) contained figures from 3528 stations — 2894 in England and Wales, 446 in Scotland, and 188 in Ireland.

The collection goes back to a private collection of Austrian Archduke Rainer, who gave the collection to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria on August 18, 1899.

Twice a widower, he married Lucy Petway Holcombe ( 1832 – 1899 ) on April 26, 1856, and in 1859 she gave birth to Douschka Pickens.

In 1899 the proposals were rejected and Montagu subsequently gave £ 10, 000 towards LCC housing on the White Hart Lane estate Tottenham.

She hated republicanism, populist democracy, and party shenanigans ; supported Boulanger ; and was a fanatical anti-Semite & anti-Dreyfusard ; in fact, while testifying at a court case in 1899 she gave her profession as " anti-Semite " rather than " writer ".

In 1890 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the University of Aberdeen gave him its honorary LL. D., and in 1899 he was appointed Gifford lecturer by that university, but declined on grounds of health.

However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a New York newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date, as do other sources, such as the 1900 census.

U. S. Federal law approved by the President Harry S. Truman on June 27, 1952 declared all persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941 to be citizens of the U. S. at birth and all persons born in Puerto Rico between April 11, 1899, and January 12, 1941, and meeting certain other technical requirements, and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, were declared to be citizens of the U. S. as of January 13, 1941.

Marie Louise died on 31 January 1899 after giving birth to her youngest daughter.

In 1943 Lincke toured Marienbad, Bohemia to conduct Frau Luna, whose first performance in 1899 is now regarded as the birth of the Berlin operetta.

* Louisa Mary Milman, 15th Baroness Berkeley ( by birth: Berkeley ) ( 1840 – 1899 )

Some sources give his year of birth as being as early as 1893, but it has also been variously given as 1898, 1899 and 1903.

In 1899 Marie, pregnant with Mignon, pleaded with King Carol I to allow her to give birth in Coburg, where her father was Duke.

His attestation papers give his date of birth as 1898 ( rather than the actual 1899 ), allowing him to enlist although only 15 at the time.

In honour of the centenary of the birth of film director Alfred Hitchcock ( born 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone ), the London Borough of Waltham Forest commissioned the Greenwich Mural Workshop to create a series of mosaics of Hitchcock's life and works in the tube station.

Charles Anderson ( 1827 – 19 April 1899 ) was by birth an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff (; birth name ` Hovakim, ; 29 October 1899 – 17 September 1972 ) was an Armenian actor.

In January 1862, during the American Civil War, thousands of Philadelphia residents signed a petition requesting the Congress to commemorate the 130th anniversary of Washington's birth by reading his Farewell Address " in one or the other of the Houses of Congress .” First read in the United States House of Representatives in February 1862, the reading of Washington's address became a tradition in both houses by 1899.

Campbell's birth in 1899 was just shortly before the Commonwealth of Australia came into being.

Accordingly, Ransom's birth has to be placed in 1899 or 1900 at the latest-assuming that he had fought only in 1918, the war's last year ; if he had already been on the Somme in 1916, he must have been born in 1897 or 1898 at the latest.

His year of birth is sometimes incorrectly given as 1899, but birth records have confirmed the actual year.

Shortly after the birth of Nicholas ' third daughter, Maria, in June 1899, George wrote to his brother, " I am terribly sad that I have not yet been able to see your daughters and get to know them ; but what can I do!