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E. B. White. Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) [1] was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their ...
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.
Guyana–Venezuelaterritorial dispute. The Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region, also known as Esequibo or Guayana Esequiba in Spanish ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaˈʝana eseˈkiβa] ⓘ ), [1] a 159,500 km 2 (61,600 sq mi) area west of the Essequibo River.
Religion. Roman Catholicism. prev. Lutheranism. George, Duke of Mecklenburg ( German: Georg Herzog zu Mecklenburg; 5 October [ O.S. 22 September] 1899 – 6 July 1963) was the head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1934 until his death. Through his father, he was a descendant of Emperor Paul I of Russia .
2015 (Thursday) 2014 (Wednesday) October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 63 days remain until the end of the year.
e. The Paris Arbitral Award is an arbitral award issued on 3 October 1899 by an arbitral tribunal convened in Paris, created two years earlier as established in the Arbitral Treaty of Washington D. C. on 2 February 1897, in which the United States (representing Venezuela) on the one hand and the United Kingdom (as owner of the colony of British ...
Pearl Hart (born Pearl Taylor; 1871 – December 30, 1955) was a Canadian -born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender. Many details of Hart's life are uncertain, with available reports being varied and ...
