April 1899 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Apr 18 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria

Queen of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria

Appointment of Interest

Apr 20 David Beatty is appointed executive officer of the HMS Barfleur, a small battleship and flagship of the China Station

British Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty

Apr 24 Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
Apr 27 Foundation of the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Science, the world's first research sound archive (added to UNESCO's Memory of the World 1999) [1]

Birthdays in History

Apr 1 Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
Apr 1 Lida Durdikova, Czech children's author (Children with extinguished eyes) and publisher (Père Castor), born in Prague (d. 1955)
Apr 5 William Hornby Steer, Conservative Party politician and barrister (d. 1993)
Apr 9 James Smith McDonnell, American aviator and engineer, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1980)

Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)

Apr 11 African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, born in Montgomery, Alabama

Apr 13 Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game inventor (Scrabble), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1993)
Apr 13 Alfred Schütz, Austrian-American architect and philosopher, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1959)
Apr 16 Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist, born in Bergaliszki (d. 1988)
Apr 17 Vincent Wigglesworth, British entomologist (Metamorphosis hormones), born in Kirkham, Lancashire, England (d. 1994)

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

Apr 22 Russian-American novelist (Lolita, Ada), born in St Petersburg, Russia

Apr 23 Minoru Shirota, Japanese microbiologist and fouder of the Yakult Honsha beverage company, born in Tatsuoka, Nagano (d. 1982)
Apr 24 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (algebraic geometry), born in Kobrin, Russian Empire (d. 1986)

Deaths in History

Apr 8 John Wesley Turner, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), dies at 65
Apr 15 Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (pioneer in classifying mental health), dies at 70
Apr 16 Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary, dies at 23
Apr 20 Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
Apr 21 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer and geographer (1st modern maps of classical world and Ottoman Empire), dies at 80
Apr 23 Dandridge McRae, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69