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1899 US $5 silver certificate
"The beautiful Indian maidens", promotional poster, ca. 1899
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Robert H. Snyder (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Winthrop M. Crane (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Thomas B. Dunstan (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Orrin W. Robinson (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Daniel T. Hindman (Republican) (until month and day unknown), John T. Kean (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: John Thompson (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Seid Waddell (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George Taylor Jester (Democratic) (until January 17), James Browning (Democratic) (starting January 17)
February 6 – Spanish–American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
February 10 – Spanish–American War: The U.S. receives the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Puerto Rico as a result of the Treaty of Paris.
February 12–14 – Great Blizzard of 1899: Freezing temperatures and snow extend well south into North America, including southern Florida. It is the latest in a series of disasters to Florida's citrus industry.
February 14 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
March[]
March 2 – In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
March 24 – George Dewey is made Admiral of the US Navy.
April[]
April 13 – Tahoe National Forest is established in California.
April 15 – Students at the University of California, Berkeley steal the Stanford Axe from Stanford University yell leaders following a baseball game, thus establishing the Axe as a symbol of the rivalry between the schools.
May[]
May 31 – The launch of the Harriman Alaska Expedition.
June[]
June 7 – Temperance movement crusader Carrie Nation enters a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and proceeds to destroy all the alcoholic beverages with rocks.
June 12 – New Richmond Tornado: A tornado completely destroys the town of New Richmond, Wisconsin, killing 117 people and injuring more than 200.
June 25 – Three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story (later proved to be a fabrication) that the Chinese government under the Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the Great Wall of China.
June 30 – Mile-a-Minute Murphy earns his famous nickname this day, after he becomes the first man to ride a bicycle for one mile in under a minute on Long Island.
July[]
July 17 – America's first juvenile court is established in Chicago.
July 19 – The Newsboys Strike takes place when the Newsies of New York City go on strike (strike lasts until August 2).
July 30 – The Harriman Alaska Expedition ends successfully.
August[]
August 3 – The John Marshall Law School is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
August 10 – Major Taylor wins the world 1-mile professional cycling championship in Montreal, securing his place as the first African American world champion in any sport.[1]
August 17 – A hurricane makes landfall in North Carolina's Outer Banks, completely destroying the town of Diamond City.
September[]
September 6 – Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late-nineteenth century and the early-twentieth century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note,
September 14 – Henry H. Bliss becomes the first person to be killed by a motor vehicle in the United States. Upon disembarking from a streetcar in New York City, an electric-powered taxicab strikes and crushes him and he dies from his injuries the following morning.
October[]
October 30 – The Augusta High School Building is completed in Augusta, Kentucky; Augusta Methodist College shuts down.
November[]
1899 snowstorm in Washington, DC
November 4 – The Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority is founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
November 8 – The Bronx Zoo opens in New York City.
November 21 – Vice President Garret Hobart dies of heart failure.
December[]
December 2 – Philippine–American War – Battle of Tirad Pass: ("The Filipino Thermopylae") General Gregorio del Pilar and his troops are able to guard the retreat of Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo before being wiped out.
December 25 – The 6.7 MwSan Jacinto earthquake shook the Inland Empire area of Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing six deaths and $50,000 in damage.
Undated[]
The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Manteo, which was originally laid out as the Dare county seat in 1870.
"Domestic Chronology", Statistician and Economist, San Francisco: Louis P. McCarty, 1905, pp. 227–347 – via HathiTrust. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905)