May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
Day of death February 5, 1899
The temperature on February 5, 1899 was about 1.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
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