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unusual facts about 1899–1900 FC Barcelona season


1899–1900 FC Barcelona season

Football Club Barcelona was created on November 29 the same year, after a meeting held at Gimnasio Solé, a gym located at number 5 Montjuïc del Carme Street, in Barcelona's El Raval.


1988 in Israel

18 August – Ernst Simon (born 1899), German-born Israeli Jewish educator, and religious philosopher.

Alabama Railroad

The remainder of the line north of Peterman, Alabama was abandoned approximately 1994 to include an 800+ foot tunnel built in 1899 located at Tunnel Springs, Alabama.

Alfred Hunt

Alfred E. Hunt (1855–1899), founder of the company that became the aluminum company Alcoa

Allman Bay

During the period of August 18, 1898 through August 2, 1899, American explorer Robert Peary's ship was ice-bound in Allman Bay.

Benjamin Hunting Howell

Benjamin Hunting Howell (born September 3, 1875) was an American rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta and the Wingfield Sculls in 1898 and 1899.

Brighton United F.C.

Maurice Parry played for Brighton United in the 1899–00 season, before having a long career with Liverpool and making 16 appearances for Wales.

Bunsenite

It was first described in 1868 for a sample from a hydrothermal nickel-uranium vein from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany and named for German chemist Robert William Eberhard Bunsen (1811–1899).

Carruthers Beattie

During the Anglo-Boer War in February 1899, he and others demonstrated the application of wireless telegraphy by transmitting signals over a distance of 120 metres on Cape Town's Grand Parade using equipment imported from Britain.

Cruden Bay railway station

From 1899 to 1932, a passenger tramway service from the station to the Cruden Bay Hotel was provided by the Cruden Bay Hotel Tramway.

Dalip

Dalip Singh Saund (1899–1973), member of the United States House of Representatives

Dennis Hird

In 1899 he was chosen to be the first principal of Ruskin College, Oxford.

Edward Curtis Smith

In 1899 he officiated at the welcome home ceremony in Bennington for Admiral George Dewey, hero of the Spanish American War.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

In 1899, Emma married one of the last of the great Cope family from Bramshill House in Hampshire, John Hautenville Cope.

Francis Blair

Frank S. Blair (1839–1899), Virginia lawyer and Attorney General of Virginia

Gaston A. Robbins

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1899, to March 8, 1900, when he was again succeeded by William F. Aldrich, who contested his election.

George Blewett

He studied at the University of Würzburg in 1899 and received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1900 from Harvard University.

George Fosbery Lyster

George Fosbery Lyster (1821 – 1899) succeeded John Hartley as Engineer in Chief to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

Harry Nice

He later attended Baltimore City College, Dickinson College and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1899.

Harry Skinner

Skinner was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899), but in 1898 was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Heinie Groh

The move was spectacularly successful, as Groh not only hit .290 with 32 doubles and 170 hits, but set a new league record with 34 double plays, breaking Lave Cross' 1899 mark of 32; he also finished within a fraction of a point of Bobby Byrne for the lead in fielding average at .969.

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg (July 8, 1839 - May 27, 1899), Austrian historian, was born in Vienna, and in 1865 became professor of history at the university of Lemberg.

Henri Casadesus

Casadesus received his early musical instruction with Albert Lavignac and studied viola with Théophile Laforge at the Conservatoire de Paris, taking first prize in 1899.

Hogan Lovells

The firm traced its history in the UK back to 1899, when John Lovell set up on his own account at Octavia Hill, between St Paul's and Smithfield.

J. Peters

In 1899 Sándor was sent to the large city of Debrecen to live with his grandfather, where educational opportunities were brighter than those of Csap.

Japanese post in Korea

Additional Japanese post offices/agencies were opened from 1896, particular from 1899, first in other treaty ports including Masan and Gunsan, then other inland places, predominantly as a political measure, as few initially made a profit.

Jean Charles Louis Tardif d'Hamonville

Baron Jean Charles Louis Tardif d'Hamonville (30 August 1830 Saint-Mihiel - 1899), was an eminent French ornithologist and conchologist, and the author of a number of books on natural history.

João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque

He joined the Faculdade de Direito do Recife (Faculty of Law of Recife) in 1899, graduating in 1904.

John Traill Christie

John Traill Christie (18 October 1899 – 8 September 1980) was headmaster of Repton School (1932–37) and Westminster School (1937–50), before becoming Principal of Jesus College, Oxford (1949–67).

Kipke

Harry Kipke (1899 – 1972), American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach

Kurt Jahnke

Born in Gnesen, Jahnke immigrated to the United States in 1899, became a naturalized citizen, and served in the U.S. Marines in the Philippines.

Malietoa Tanumafili I

The joint commission of Germany, the United States and Great Britain abolished the Samoan kingship in June 1899 and placed Manu'a and Tutuila under American control while Germany received ‘Upolu, Savaii, Manono, and Apolima.

Morfa Mawddach railway station

From 1899 to 1903 there was a connection with the Barmouth Junction and Arthog Tramway.

R. Vedantacharlu

Vedantachalu retired in February 1899 and was succeeded by S. Venkataramadas Nayudu.

Richard Simon

Richard L. Simon (1899–1960), American businessman and co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster

Robert Brindle

His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 12 March 1899, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Francesco Satolli, assisted by and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Edmund Stonor.

Roger Conant

Sir Roger Conant, 1st Baronet (1899–1973), British Conservative Party politician

Saint-Pal-de-Mons

It was the birthplace of the missionary bishop, Paul Durieu, O.M.I. (1830–1899), first Bishop of New Westminster in British Columbia, Canada.

Samuel Hirszenberg

Noteworthy are the three most famous pictures of this period: Wandering Jew (1899), Exile (1904) and Czarny Szander / Black Flag (1905).

Stanford Viaduct

Built as part of the Great Central Railway's London Extension opened in 1899, it carried the Great Central Main Line over the River Soar and a road (Meadow Lane).

Stanisław Rehman

Stanisław Rehman (1838–1899), was a city councillor in Kraków, Poland.

Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1899

The Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1899 (62 & 63 Vict c 6) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Terramatta

It is the story of The Twentieth Century told by a last, and is inspired by the Terra Matta, a memoir published by Einaudi in 2007, written in approximate Italian by Vincenzo Rabito (class 1899), a former laborer and Sicilian worker semi-literate but of great narrative ability, who attended the world War I and African adventure (in Ogaden).

The Countess Cathleen

The play was first performed on May 8, 1899, as the Irish Literary Theatre's inaugural production, in the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin.

Tom Stott

Tom Cleave Stott CBE (6 June 1899-21 October 1976) spent 37 years as an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1965 and 1968 to 1970.

Victor Baptistin Sénès

He became chief of the first section of the General Staff in Toulon, and he was conspicuous in 1899 during the explosion of the powder magazine at Lagoubran near Toulon.

Wardner, Idaho

Hostilities erupted once again in 1899 when, in response to the company firing seventeen men for joining the union, the miners dynamited the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill.

Wilhelm Dachauer

In 1899 the seventeen-year-old Wilhelm began his studies under the supervision of professor Griepenkerl.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.

William George Garrard

Garrard was honorary secretary to the Canterbury Rugby Football Union and in 1899 he officiated his first international rugby match when he refereed the First Test between Australia and the British Isles during the teams 1899 tour.

Windsor Forge Mansion

The three objects are pieces by noted artist and poet Blanche Nevin (1841-1925), who purchased Windsor Forge Mansion in 1899.


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