( 1899 ) Star-Names And Their Meanings, G. E. Stechert, New York, New York, U. S. A., hardcover ; reprint 1963 as Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, U. S. A., ISBN 978-0-486-21079-7 softcover.

The fragments preserved in the so-called Sacra parallela are to be found in Karl Holl's Fragmente vornicänischer Kirchenväter ( T U, new series, v. 2, Leipzig, 1899 ), pp. 314 – 332.

* 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U. S. Congress for use in federal elections.

* 1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U. S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.

* 1816 – Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1899 )

Northern Michigan University ( or NMU for short ) is a four-year college public university established in 1899 and located in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of the U. S. state of Michigan.

One year after the United States invasion of the island, Dr. José Celso Barbosa embraced the idea of annexation as a U. S. state as a solution to the colonial situation and founded the Republican Party in 1899.

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.

Thomas Brackett Reed, ( October 18, 1839 – December 7, 1902 ), occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U. S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1889 – 1891 and from 1895 – 1899.

He served in the Ohio Senate ( 1899 – 1903 ), as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio ( 1904 – 1906 ) and as a U. S. Senator ( 1915 – 1921 ).

** The U. S. Senate accepts the British-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.

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 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

A romanticized tramp depicted in an 1899 U. S. poster

Six years after the men's nationals were first held, the first official U. S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in 1887, won by 17-year-old Philadelphian Ellen Hansell, accompanied by the U. S. Women's National Doubles Championship ( not held for the next two years ) and U. S. Mixed Doubles Championship ( not held in 1899 ).

It is the U. S. state capital whose namesake was most recently alive: Joe Juneau died in 1899, a year after Otto von Bismarck ( North Dakota ).

Putnam of the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey in 1899.

The Carr Mansion in Galesburg was the site of a presidential cabinet meeting held in 1899 by U. S. President William McKinley and U. S. Secretary of State John Hay.

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 )

* April 24 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German Reichsphysician ( S. S. and Police ) in the Third Reich ( b. 1899 )

* Robert Ten Broeck Stevens ( 1899 – 1983 ), American businessman and politician, Secretary of the Army, opposed Joseph McCarthy

* Robert Ten Broeck Stevens ( 1899 – 1983 ), American businessman and politician, Secretary of the Army, opposed Joseph McCarthy

* 1899 – Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army ( d. 1986 )

** Lyman Lemnitzer, American Army General ( b. 1899 )

* July 9 – Oliver Law, American labor organizer and Army officer ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1899 )

* February 6 – Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1899 )

But when comparing Sherman's scorched-earth campaigns to the actions of the British Army during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 )— another war in which civilians were targeted because of their central role in sustaining an armed resistance — South African historian Hermann Giliomee declares that it " looks as if Sherman struck a better balance than the British commanders between severity and restraint in taking actions proportional to legitimate needs ".

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

In mid-December 1899, during ' Black Week ', the British Army suffered reverses at Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso.

Beginning in 1899, the United States Army built a pack trail from Valdez, on the south coast of Alaska, to Eagle, northeast of Big Delta, a distance of about.

* Harry C. Egbert ( 1839 – 1899 ), Brigadier General in the U. S. Army

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

Secretary of War Elihu Root ( 1899 – 1904 ) led the modernization of the Army.

When the Philippine – American War erupted on February 4, 1899, the Republican Army suffered losses on every sector.

In 1899, he was appointed head of the Army Medical Corps and was based in Kokura, Kyūshū.

* Alexander Douglas Campbell ( 1899 – 1980 ), British Army officer

Subsequently, the British Army adopted khaki for the campaign dress in 1897, and it was used in the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

At the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Allenby was returned to his regiment, and the Inniskillings were embarked at Queenstown before landing at Cape Town, South Africa, on 11 December 1899 during the ‘ Black Week ’ in which the British Army suffered reverses at Colenso, Magersfontein and Stormberg.

* George Leonard Andrews, ( 1828 – 1899 ), born in Bridgewater, noted United States Army officer, engineer, and educator

When war with the Boer Republics was imminent in September 1899, a Field Force, referred to as the Army Corps ( sometimes 1st Army Corps ) was mobilised and sent to Cape Town.

* Dunlop, Colonel John K., The Development of the British Army 1899 – 1914, London, Methuen ( 1938 ).

The unpreparedness of the British Army during the Second Boer War brought calls for Lansdowne's impeachment in 1899.

Dandridge McRae ( October 10, 1829 – April 23, 1899 ) was a lawyer, court official, and Inspector General of Arkansas State Troops, as well as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.