1899 in Sport
- Oct 10 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
World Leaders in 1899
Nicholas II
Tsar
Wilhelm II
German Emperor and King of Prussia
William McKinley
25th US President
Famous People in 1899
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Al Capone
Alfred Hitchcock
Duke Ellington
Ernest Hemingway
James Cagney
Miguel Ángel AsturiasWould You Believe?
1st known use of the word "automobile", appears in an editorial in The New York Times
On January 3, 1899
Famous Weddings
- Feb 10 Future US President Herbert Hoover (24) marries college sweetheart Lou Henry (24) in Monterey California
- Aug 24 Businessman James Cash Penney (24) weds Bertha Alva Hess
- Nov 9 US Admiral of the Navy George Dewey (61) weds Mildred McLean Hazen at the rectory St. Paul's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.
Robert Bunsen