The special popularity of his longer films, which were several minutes long from 1899 onwards ( while most other films were still only a minute long ), led other makers to start producing longer films.

Louisiana's highest recorded temperature is in Plain Dealing on August 10, 1936 while the coldest recorded temperature is at Minden on February 13, 1899.

Gandhi while serving in the Ambulance Corps during the Second Boer War ( 1899 )

* 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.

Next door, the Herrenhaus, or Prussian House of Lords ( the Upper House of the Prussian State Parliament ), occupied a former porcelain factory for a while, before moving to an impressive new building erected on the site of the former Mendelssohn family home in 1899 – 1904 by Friedrich Schulze Colditz ( 1843 – 1912 ).

Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham ( now knighted and RGS President ), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society.

Between 1899 and 1905, she spent $ 3 million on a grand construction scheme building lavish memorials to the Stanford family, while university faculty and self-supporting students were living in poverty.

In 1899 while investigating atmospheric electricity using a Tesla coil receiver in his Knob Hill lab, Tesla observed repetitive signals, substantially different from the signals noted from storms and Earth noise, that he interpreted as being of extraterrestrial origin.

He had fourteen stories published under various pseudonyms while he was in prison, but was becoming best known as " O. Henry ", a pseudonym that first appeared over the story " Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking " in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine.

In 1899 he moved to a teaching position at the Lycée Centrale in Nancy, while continuing work on his doctorate.

In 1899, Wojciechowski moved to London, where he studied the cooperative movement while helping to publish the Polish Socialist periodical Przedswit (“ The Dawn ”).

In his twenties, Schoenberg earned a living by orchestrating operettas, while composing his own works, such as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (" Transfigured Night ") ( 1899 ).

Its tram system was completed in 1892, while its theater was opened in 1899 ; until World War II, Gleiwitz ' theatre featured actors from through Europe and was one of the most famous theatres of entire Germany.

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.

The highest recorded temperature was on July 20, 1930, and August 6, 1918, while the lowest recorded temperature was on February 11, 1899, during the Great Blizzard of 1899.

Stevens then reused the building's scheme, while reducing its size by two-fifths, to become The Bay of Naples Inn at Naples, Maine, which opened in 1899.

The lavish, wooden 110-room home was destroyed by fire April 15, 1899, while his son, Willie K. II, was honeymooning there.

The world's first radio distress signal was transmitted by the East Goodwin lightvessel's radio operator on 17 March 1899, after the merchant vessel Elbe ran aground on the Goodwins, while on 30 April that year, the East Goodwin vessel transmitted a distress signal on its own behalf, when the SS R. F. Matthews rammed it in a dense fog.

It was named after Colonel John M. Stotsenburg, a Captain of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry, and a Colonel of the First Nebraska Volunteers who was killed while leading his regiment in action near Quingua, Bulacan, the Philippines on April 23, 1899.

Faure died suddenly from apoplexy on 16 February 1899, at a critical juncture while engaged in sexual activities in his office with 30-year-old Marguerite Steinheil.

Phi Kappa Psi was the first fraternity on campus, founded May 23, 1890, while Kappa Delta, the first sorority at WVU, was established in 1899.

Thirty years later, on September 13, 1899, Henry Bliss became North America's first motor vehicle fatality when hit while stepping off a New York City trolley.

:• Note: Four of the dedicatees ( Turczyński, Gruenberg, Sirota, Closson ) were master class pupils of Busoni in Vienna, Jul 1908 ( Beaumont, 1987, p. 91 ), while Blanchet had been a pupil at a master class in Weimar, Jul-Sep, 1899 ( Dent ).

This potential problem resulted in the rejection of the Dum-dum design and led to independent development of the Mark III, Mark IV ( 1897 ) and Mark V ( 1899 ). 303 British rounds, which were of the hollow point design, with the jacket covering the base ; while these were made in Britain, not at the Dum-Dum arsenal, the name " Dum-dum " had already become associated with expanding bullets, and continued to be used to refer to any expanding bullets.

* Washington, D. C. ( 1890 – 1899, part of the Washington streetcar system )

In 1899, the streetcar lines were extended from Washington D. C. through Hyattsville, Maryland.

By the end of 1899 the streetcar reached out along Mayfield Road to the old village of Fairmount.

On September 13, 1899 he was disembarking from a streetcar at West 74th Street and Central Park West in New York City, when an electric-powered taxicab ( Automobile No. 43 ) struck him and crushed his head and chest.

: Here at West 74th Street and Central Park West, Henry H. Bliss dismounted from a streetcar and was struck and knocked unconscious by an automobile on the evening of September 13, 1899.

* September 13, 1899 – Henry H. Bliss becomes the first person killed in an automobile accident in the United States when he steps off a streetcar at 74th Street and Central Park West and is struck by a taxicab.

His father Patrick was said to be a member of the Irish National Invincibles, a revolutionary organization that, among other activities, was reputed to have assassinated the Lord Mayor of Dublin and his secretary in 1881, the infamous Phoenix Park Murders, who then fled to the U. S. The elder Hallinan became a streetcar conductor in San Francisco, and was one of the leaders of the Great Front Strike of 1899 – 1900.

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.

* Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1899 – 1908

Hoover married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, in 1899.

* 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company ( d. 1899 )

* John Henry Walker ( 1831 – 1899 ), Canadian engraver and illustrator

* 1819 – Henry Tate, sugar magnate of Tate & Lyle and founder of the Tate Gallery ( d. 1899 )

* 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

* March 17 – Henry Ware Lawton, American general ( d. 1899 )

* June 19 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist ( d. 1899 )

He became Sir Henry Morton Stanley when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1899, in recognition of his service to the British Empire in Africa.

* 1899 – William Henry Pickering discovers Saturn's moon Phoebe

Tree mounted new plays by prominent British playwrights, such as Carnac Sahib ( 1899 ) by Henry Arthur Jones.

Colm Tóibín used an extensive list of biographies of Henry James and his family for his widely admired 2004 novel, The Master, which is a third person narrative with James as the central character, and deals with specific episodes from his life during the period between 1895 and 1899.

The city's first major industry was born in 1899 when Henry W. Hibbs, 1862 – 1942, a native of Newport, North Carolina, established his wholesale fish business at the end of the railroad pier, which extended out to the shipping channel.

Henry Plant died in 1899, and his heirs sold the facilities to the city of Tampa in 1904.

This lawsuit involved a landowner, Henry Schaffner, whose property in Williams County was added to neighboring Mercer County by the 1899 law.

* 1898: A notice advertising sale of an area of land east of Cain's Lane says that " Earl Strafford " ( George Byng, 3rd Earl of Strafford ( 1830 – 1898 ) or Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford ( 1831 – 1899 )) owned some adjacent land that in the 1819 map was marked as belonging to George Byng, Esq.

* 16 May 1899: Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford died aged 67.

Created in 1899, Teller County was carved from the western slope of Pikes Peak, and was named after United States Senator Henry M. Teller.

* Henry Massey Rector ( 1816 – 1899 ), Marshal for Arkansas, later governor of that state

# Henry ( 1840 – 1938 ) who succeeded as the 2nd baronet on 1899

* William Henry Appleton ( 1814 – 1899 ), Daniel Appleton's son, publisher of Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and John Stuart Mill

At the urging of his journalist friend Arthur Henry, Dreiser began writing his manuscript in 1899.