May 1899 in History

Events in History

May 8 Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation (Alpha and Beta Particles)

May 9 John Burr patents an improved rotary blade lawn mower in the US
May 17 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid, London, England
May 18 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
May 20 First speeding infraction by a New York cabbie driving an electric car - 12mph down Lexington Street
May 24 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
May 31 -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
May 31 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park

May 2 George Hamilton Combs, American politician and TV and radio commentator (Through the Curtain), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1977)
May 8 Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
May 8 [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom)
May 11 Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
May 12 Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
May 14 Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
May 15 Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
May 20 John M Harlan, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71), born in Chicago, Illinois
May 20 Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
May 24 Henri Michaux, Belgian-born French poet and writer (Miserable Miracle), born in Namur, Belgium (d. 1984)
May 26 Otto E. Neugebauer, Austrian-American mathematician and historian, born in Innsbruck, Austria-Hungary (d. 1990)

May 26 Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, born in Rotterfam, Netherlands (d. 1987)

May 26 Antonio J. Barrette, French Canadian politician, premier of Quebec, born in Joliette, Quebec, Canada (d. 1968)
May 31 Ilse Lagner, German antiwar writer, born in Breslau (d. 1987)
May 31 Leonid Leonov, Russian writer, born in Moscow (d. 1994)