What Happened In October 1899 - Historical Events 1899 October

Historical Events for October, 1899

11th » Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the South African Republic e.g Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
11th » The Western League (U.S. baseball) or Western League is renamed the American League.

1st » Ernest Haycox, American author (d. 1950)
5th » George, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1963)
9th » Bruce Catton, American historian and author (d. 1978)
11th » Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1964)
19th » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
26th » Judy Johnson, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
29th » Kate Seredy, Hungarian-American author and illustrator (d. 1975)
29th » Akim Tamiroff, Russian-American actor (d. 1972)

28th » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
30th » William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1816)