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This year in history
In the year 1899

	January 17th	American gangster, Al Capone, was born in New York.
	January 21st	The Opel Motors company was founded by Adam Opel in Russelsheim, Germany.
	February 25th	German born journalist, Paul Julius Reuter, died at the age of 82. He was born in Kassel, Germany, but became a British citizen in 1857 and it was there that he founded the Reuters news agency, which today is one of the major news agencies in the world.
	March 20th	The first ever execution by electrocution of a woman took place. The woman was, Martha Place, who had been found guilty of the murder of her stepdaughter.
	April 11th	Under the terms of the "Treaty of Paris", Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States of America.
	June 3rd	Austrian composer, Johann Strauss, died at the age of 64. He was known as "the waltz king", and was responsible for popularizing waltz music. His most famous musical composition is that of "The blue Danube".
	July 21st	American writer, Ernest Hemingway, was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He is widely acknowledged as one of the top literary figures of the 20th century who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. He was suffering from depression and paranoia, which eventually led to his committing suicide.
	August 13th	British film director, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, was born in Leytonstone, London. He was one of the most influential film directors of his generation, who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
	August 24th	Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, was born in Buenos Aires. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Spanish-language literary figures of the 20th century.
	September 13th	The first fatal automobile accident occured in the United States.
	November 4th	Sigmund Freud's, The Interpretation of Dreams, was first published.

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