What Happened In May 1899 In History

Historical Events for May, 1899

• 8th » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
• 20th » 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.
• 30th » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the American frontier e.g Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1899

• 5th » Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 6th » Billy Cotton, English drummer and bandleader (d. 1969)
• 7th » Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor (d. 1998)
• 8th » Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
• 8th » Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-English economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize in Economics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 10th » Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
• 11th » Paulino Masip, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1963)
• 12th » Indra Devi, Latvian yoga instructor (d. 2002)
• 14th » Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
• 14th » Earle Combs, American baseball player and coach (d. 1976)
• 15th » Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
• 19th » Lothar Rădăceanu, Romanian journalist, linguist and politician (d. 1955)
• 20th » Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter (d. 1969)
• 20th » John Marshall Harlan II, American jurist (d. 1971)
• 23rd » Jeralean Talley, American super-centenarian
• 24th » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
• 24th » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984)
• 25th » Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player (d. 1976)
• 26th » Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Quebec (d. 1968)
• 26th » Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
• 27th » Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (d. 1993)
• 29th » Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician, 10th Minister of National Defence (Canada) named Minister of Defence for Canada (d. 1987)
• 30th » Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1936)

Famous Deaths for May 1899

• 1st » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 25th » Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)

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