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.

That was the case of “ Grupo Artístico de Fados ”, with Berta Cardoso ( 1911 – 1997 ), Madalena de Melo ( 1903 – 1970 ), Armando Augusto Freire, ( 1891 – 1946 ) Martinho d ’ Assunção ( 1914 – 1992 ) and João da Mata, and “ Grupo Artístico Propaganda do Fado ”, with Deonilde Gouveia ( 1900 – 1946 ), Júlio Proença ( 1901 – 1970 ) and Joaquim Campos ( 1899 – 1978 ), or “ Troupe Guitarra de Portugal ”, with Ercília Costa ( 1902 – 1985 ) and Alfredo Marceneiro ( 1891 – 1982 ) among others.

The village of Hempstead was incorporated on May 6, 1853, becoming the first community in Queens County ( Nassau County did not exist as a separate county until 1899 ) to do so.

In conjunction with operations around Abercorn further down the trade route, this was enough to end the slave trade going east from Mweru, but not enough to bring Mwata Kazembe under British rule, and a military expedition had to be sent in 1899 from British Central Africa ( Nyasaland ) to do that job ( see the article on Alfred Sharpe for more details ).

Caerphilly railway station was opened in 1871 and in 1899 the Rhymney Railway built their Caerphilly railway works maintenance facilities ; however, the expansion of the population in the nineteenth century was more to do with the increasing market for coal.

Women gained the right to vote in 1899, making Western Australia the second of the Australian colonies ( behind South Australia ) to do so.

In Portugal's African colonies ( e. g. Mozambique ), the Native Labour Regulations of 1899 stated that all able bodied men must work for six months of every year, and that " They have full liberty to choose the means through which to comply with this regulation, but if they do not comply in some way, the public authorities will force them to comply.

During the early 1890s the SER was actively considering extending the Bricklayers ' Arms branch into Charing Cross and Cannon Street as a means of relieving this congestion, but deferred making any decision to do so and ultimately the idea was dropped following the operating agreement with the LC & DR in 1899, which provided the new ' joint railway ' with two further pathways into London.

In 1899, artist Henry Ward Ranger, recently returned from Europe and inspired by the example of the French Barbizon artists, rented a room from Griswold ( who is still affectionately referred to as ' Miss Florence ' in Old Lyme ) and encouraged his acquaintances to do likewise.

Buick now had the time and capital to work on engines full time, and he set up a new company, the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company, in 1899 to do so.

Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias was a Spanish journalist in Belém do Pará who on June 3, 1899 denounced a claimed agreement between USA and Bolivia that stated that the United States would support Bolivia in a possible war against Brazil.

Of Hill's form during the tour, Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack said " Clement Hill played many fine innings, his best performance being in the Test match at Sheffield, but, even allowing for the soft wickets, I do not think he was so great a batsman as in 1899.

Descended from a prominent political family, Beckham was chosen as Democrat William Goebel's running mate in the gubernatorial election of 1899 despite the fact that he was not yet of legal age to serve as governor if called to do so.

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!

See Subsídios para a biographia do poeta Jeronymo Corte-Real ( Evora, 1899 ); also Ernesto do Canto's Memoir on the family in Nos.

Listed as an architectural, urbanistic, landscape and historical heritage for IPHAN-the Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage, in 1989, the city has a Historical Center with large, ornate houses and churches of the 18th century, such as: First Church of Our Lady of the Rosary ( 1728 – 1732 ), Churches of Our Lady of the Carmo ( 1750 – 1754 ) and the Church of Our Lord of the Bonfim ( Pirenópolis ) ( 1750 – 1754 ), and buildings such as the Theater of Pirenópolis, a hybrid style between colonial and neo-classic, of 1899, and the Cine-Pireneus, built in the art-deco style, of 1919 and the House of Chamber and Jail constructed in 1919 as an identical restoration of the 1733 original.

In 1899, Vaccaro Brothers and Company ( later known as Standard Fruit, a New Orleans-based fruit corporation, which came to Honduras in 1899 to purchase coconuts, oranges and bananas on Roatan Island.

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

* 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company ( b. 1899 )

In 1899 Fleming became Scientific Advisor to the Marconi Company and soon after began work on the designing the power plant to enable the Marconi Company to transmit across the Atlantic.

An 1899 advertisement for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

Lucas made a lease agreement in 1899 with the Gladys City Company and a subsequent agreement with Higgins.

A submarine cable en-route to Britain from Cape Town was landed in November 1899 and extended to Ascension by December and was operated by the Eastern Telegraph Company.

** Columbia Automobile Company ( 1899 – 1913 ), originally expanded from the bicycle line

In the US, the Electric Boat Company was founded in 1899 and built the first submarine purchased by the U. S. Navy in 1900.

The company was founded in 1899 by Isaac Rice as the Electric Boat Company to build John Philip Holland's submersible designs, which were developed at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard, located in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.

The American Steel and Wire Company established in 1899 employed vertical integration: it controlled all aspects of production from producing the steel rods to making many different wire and nail products from the same steel ; although later part of U. S. Steel, the production of barbed wire would still be a major source of revenue

Eastern Telegraph Company 1899 chart of undersea telegraph cabling.

* Laclede Gas Company, still in operation as the Laclede Group, Inc., removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1899.

Due to the lengthy and expensive process of introducing the world's first practical submarines, Holland, short on funds, had to part with his company and sell his interest to financier Isaac Leopold Rice, renaming the new firm as the Electric Boat Company on 7 February 1899.

The company that emerged from under these developments was called The Electric Boat Company, founded on 7 February 1899.

Keith, agent of the Central Coal and Coke Company in Kansas City, Missouri, began buying virgin timber in the fall of 1899.

The Catawba Power Company had been founded in 1899 by William C. Whitner, Dr. Gill Wylie and his brother Robert Wylie.

The London General Omnibus Company commenced services to Regent Street from the Crown in 1883, in 1899 opening a bus garage ( Garage code W ), which is still in use, although completely rebuilt by 2010.

1899 saw the start of the Kentucky Electrical Lamp Company, a light bulb manufacturing company which eventually was acquired by Kentucky Radio Company ( Ken-Rad ) in 1918 and later acquired by General Electric in 1945 and in 1987 acquired by MPD, Inc., created the light bulbs that illuminated the first night game in the history of Major League Baseball on May 24, 1935, between the Reds and Phillies at Cincinnati's Crosley Field.

In 1899, St. Louis Park became the home to the Peavey – Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator, the world's first concrete, tubular grain elevator which provided an alternative to combustible wooden elevators.

In 1899, he joined the Otis Elevator Company.

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.

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

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

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.

Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.

During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

The slight differences were that the red hoops were slightly thicker than the white ( the opposite was true in 1896 ), and the white flash on the socks introduced in 1899 was partially retained.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

On February 14, 1899 the name " Broadway " was extended to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard road.

When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.

After eight years with the Spiders, Young was moved to St. Louis in 1899.

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.