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| Born : | 09/07/1900 | "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist (Melissa) |
| Born : | 11/14/1900 | Aaron Copland, Brooklyn, composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) |
| Born : | 02/05/1900 | Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956) |
| Born : | 10/09/1900 | Alastair Sims, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright) |
| Born : | 08/11/1900 | Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod) |
| Born : | 03/17/1900 | Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing) |
| Born : | 04/09/1900 | Allen Jenkins, NYC, actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit) |
| Born : | 09/01/1900 | Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) |
| Born : | 11/19/1900 | Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author |
| Born : | 01/28/1900 | Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner (Olympic-1928) |
| Born : | 06/29/1900 | Antoine Saint-Exup‚ry, France, aviator/writer (Wind, Sand & Stars) |
| Born : | 07/19/1900 | Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Republic) |
| Born : | 08/03/1900 | Arnoldus J Struycken, lawyer |
| Born : | 08/10/1900 | Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924) |
| Born : | 08/04/1900 | Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66) |
| Born : | 02/02/1900 | Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Springfield Ohio, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65) |
| Born : | 05/17/1900 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader |
| Born : | 06/05/1900 | Barbara Gooden, novelist |
| Born : | 12/25/1900 | Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie) |
| Born : | 05/07/1900 | Bauke Tuinstra, Fries notary/author (Earste Keur) |
| Born : | 07/05/1900 | Bernardus J Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands |
| Born : | 08/05/1900 | Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], mezzo-soprano/song theorist |
| Born : | 10/11/1900 | Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates) |
| Born : | 10/31/1900 | Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball & football Hall of Famer |
| Born : | 05/05/1900 | Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924) |
| Born : | 04/26/1900 | Charles Richter, Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale) |
| Born : | 08/11/1900 | Charles William Paddock, Texas, 100m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1920) |
| Born : | 11/20/1900 | Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job) |
| Born : | 09/08/1900 | Claude D Pepper, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- ), old people's advocate |
| Born : | 11/18/1900 | Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters) |
| Born : | 09/04/1900 | Cornelis Verolme, ship builder |
| Born : | 01/15/1900 | C‚sar [Caesar] Domela, painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis) |
| Born : | 03/12/1900 | David Croll, QC senator |
| Born : | 06/05/1900 | Dennis Gabor, inventor (holography (3D laser photography)) |
| Born : | 07/29/1900 | Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times) |
| Born : | 08/04/1900 | Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch) |
| Born : | 02/29/1900 | Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM |
| Born : | 10/22/1900 | Edward R Stettinius, US, foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat |
| Born : | 11/07/1900 | Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) |
| Born : | 08/22/1900 | Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great) |
| Born : | 08/04/1900 | Elizabeth, Britain's Queen Mother |
| Born : | 07/31/1900 | Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll) |
| Born : | 03/23/1900 | Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society) |
| Born : | 08/03/1900 | Ernie Pyle, England, correspondant during WW II |
| Born : | 08/23/1900 | Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf) |
| Born : | 03/21/1900 | Eugenie Leontovich, Russia, actor(?) |
| Born : | 07/29/1900 | Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974) |
| Born : | 02/12/1900 | Ferenc K”rmendy, Hungarian/US author (Budapest Kaland) |
| Born : | 08/30/1900 | Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief) |
| Born : | 06/09/1900 | Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender) |
| Born : | 10/15/1900 | Fritz Feld, actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus) |
| Born : | 12/20/1900 | Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935) |
| Born : | 07/08/1900 | George Antheil, Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata) |
| Born : | 06/03/1900 | Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New) |
| Born : | 02/22/1900 | Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963) |
| Born : | 12/25/1900 | Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda) |
| Born : | 07/20/1900 | Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist |
| Born : | 02/20/1900 | Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer |
| Born : | 05/05/1900 | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt) |
| Born : | 04/02/1900 | Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist |
| Born : | 11/06/1900 | Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader |
| Born : | 10/20/1900 | Heinrich Himmler, head of Gestapo |
| Born : | 11/25/1900 | Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent/(Rep-D-Ca) |
| Born : | 10/10/1900 | Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (C‘sar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) |
| Born : | 08/02/1900 | Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause) |
| Born : | 11/11/1900 | Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928) |
| Born : | 05/12/1900 | Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress/wife of Bertolt Brecht |
| Born : | 05/31/1900 | Helma Wolf-Catz, author |
| Born : | 06/10/1900 | Henri Bruning, literary |
| Born : | 06/08/1900 | Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merl˜n], writer (Last general) |
| Born : | 01/28/1900 | Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange) |
| Born : | 11/18/1900 | Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger) |
| Born : | 11/11/1900 | Hugh Scott, (Sen-R-Penn), minority whip |
| Born : | 01/27/1900 | Hyman G Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy) |
| Born : | 06/13/1900 | Ian Hunter, S Africa, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood) |
| Born : | 10/26/1900 | Ibrahim Abboed, general/premier Sudan |
| Born : | 05/01/1900 | Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) |
| Born : | 06/25/1900 | Izak D du Plessis, South African writer/director (3rd World) |
| Born : | 03/06/1900 | J H P Pafford, librarian (University of London) |
| Born : | 02/04/1900 | Jacques Pr‚vert, France, poet/screenwriter (Paroles) |
| Born : | 07/17/1900 | James Cagney, actor, A yankee doodle dandy, hold that grapefruit |
| Born : | 09/09/1900 | James Hilton, hotel magnate (Hilton Hotels) |
| Born : | 04/26/1900 | James Sutherland, English literature scholar |
| Born : | 04/28/1900 | Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (hypothesized "Oort Cloud") |
| Born : | 06/07/1900 | Jan [Johannes AA] Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros) |
| Born : | 06/16/1900 | Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62) |
| Born : | 10/03/1900 | Jay Irving, NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh) |
| Born : | 04/10/1900 | Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950) |
| Born : | 02/25/1900 | Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball) |
| Born : | 06/22/1900 | Jennie Tourel, St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera 1943-47) |
| Born : | 11/11/1900 | John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol) |
| Born : | 07/03/1900 | John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway) |
| Born : | 08/03/1900 | John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution |
| Born : | 09/06/1900 | Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois) |
| Born : | 11/09/1900 | Kathy Negrin |
| Born : | 03/02/1900 | Kurt Weill, Dessau, Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany) |
| Born : | 06/19/1900 | Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret) |
| Born : | 06/11/1900 | Lawrence E Spivak, Bkln NY, news panelist (Meet the Press) |
| Born : | 10/16/1900 | Leon (Goose) Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928) |
| Born : | 11/27/1900 | Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58) |
| Born : | 12/03/1900 | Lester Matthews, Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu) |
| Born : | 10/16/1900 | Lloyd Corrigan, SF, actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank) |
| Born : | 04/25/1900 | Lord Gladwyn, British Liberal |
| Born : | 06/25/1900 | Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative/earl/baron/admiral |
| Born : | 07/04/1900 | Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, New Orleans LA, jazz musician (Hello Dolly) |
| Born : | 09/23/1900 | Louise Nevelson, US, sculptor (Sky Cathedral) |
| Born : | 12/17/1900 | Luc˜an M Skerjanc, Yugoslavia, composer/conductor |
| Born : | 11/04/1900 | Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars) |
| Born : | 02/22/1900 | Luis Bru¤el, Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty) |
| Born : | 03/31/1900 | L”rinc Szab¢, Hungary, poet (Huszonhatodik ‚v) |
| Born : | 02/03/1900 | Mabel Mercer, English cabaret singer (Fly Me to the Moon) |
| Born : | 07/19/1900 | Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer |
| Born : | 11/17/1900 | Marcel Dalio, Paris, actor (Casablanca) |
| Born : | 11/08/1900 | Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone With the Wind) |
| Born : | 06/17/1900 | Martin Bormann, propoganda minister of Hitler |
| Born : | 07/20/1900 | Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life) |
| Born : | 04/28/1900 | Maurice Thorez coal miner, leader of French Communist Party |
| Born : | 10/15/1900 | Mervyn Le Roy, movie producer (Devil at 4 O'Clock) |
| Born : | 01/25/1900 | Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story) |
| Born : | 08/10/1900 | Norma Shearer, Canada, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight) |
| Born : | 08/29/1900 | Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou) |
| Born : | 06/15/1900 | Otto Clarence Luening, Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon) |
| Born : | 06/27/1900 | Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77) |
| Born : | 05/28/1900 | Owen Aisher, president (Marley) |
| Born : | 06/15/1900 | Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues) |
| Born : | 01/06/1900 | Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse) |
| Born : | 04/16/1900 | Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home) |
| Born : | 08/24/1900 | Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger) |
| Born : | 06/09/1900 | Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot |
| Born : | 01/08/1900 | Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia |
| Born : | 08/17/1900 | Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) |
| Born : | 02/10/1900 | Rebecca Negrin |
| Born : | 09/01/1900 | Richard Arlen, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand) |
| Born : | 04/19/1900 | Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth) |
| Born : | 12/03/1900 | Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938) |
| Born : | 03/06/1900 | Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner) |
| Born : | 03/28/1900 | Robert Harris, actor |
| Born : | 03/04/1900 | Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968) |
| Born : | 08/31/1900 | Roland Culver, London England, actor (Thunderball) |
| Born : | 03/19/1900 | Roy Roberts, Tampa Fla, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show) |
| Born : | 05/17/1900 | Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's ayatollah |
| Born : | 05/18/1900 | Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825) |
| Born : | 02/22/1900 | Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk) |
| Born : | 03/10/1900 | Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club) |
| Born : | 10/09/1900 | Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1928) |
| Born : | 04/05/1900 | Spencer Tracy, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib) |
| Born : | 05/05/1900 | Spencer Tracy, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) |
| Born : | 04/07/1900 | Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952) |
| Born : | 01/25/1900 | Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving) |
| Born : | 02/11/1900 | Thomas Hitchcock Jr, great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39) |
| Born : | 10/03/1900 | Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) |
| Born : | 09/03/1900 | Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland (1956- ) |
| Born : | 12/16/1900 | Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers) |
| Born : | 08/08/1900 | Victor Young, Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old Calif) |
| Born : | 04/27/1900 | Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator) |
| Born : | 08/18/1900 | Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood) |
| Born : | 10/20/1900 | Wayne Morse, (Sen-R/D-Ore) |
| Born : | 08/12/1900 | Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ (1866-1894) |
| Born : | 01/29/1900 | Willem FK Hussem, painter/poet (Kustl˜n, Lookout on Sea) |
| Born : | 01/15/1900 | William Heinesen, F„ro‰s Island, writer (Noatun) |
| Born : | 04/25/1900 | Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945) |
| Born : | 01/01/1900 | Xavier Cugat, Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo) |
| Born : | 01/05/1900 | Yves Tanguy, French/US sailor/surrealistic painter |
| Born : | 02/29/1900 | Y¢rgos Sef‚ris, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi) |
| Born : | 07/24/1900 | Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott |
| Born : | 03/07/1900 | [Albert] Carel Willink, painter (realism) |
| Born : | 03/19/1900 | [Jean] Fr‚d‚ric Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1936) |
| Died : | 10/14/1900 | Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies |
| Died : | 03/18/1900 | Ant¢nio Nobre, Portuguese poet (S¢ [Lonely]), dies at 32 |
| Died : | 11/22/1900 | Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies |
| Died : | 10/20/1900 | Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go), dies at 70 |
| Died : | 04/04/1900 | Edward VII, King, assassinated |
| Died : | 08/25/1900 | Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies |
| Died : | 03/06/1900 | Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65 |
| Died : | 08/28/1900 | Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies |
| Died : | 03/26/1900 | Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 |
| Died : | 08/05/1900 | James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 |
| Died : | 08/12/1900 | James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies |
| Died : | 12/14/1900 | Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 |
| Died : | 04/30/1900 | John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck |
| Died : | 01/20/1900 | John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81 |
| Died : | 04/20/1900 | Mebel Mercer, popular singer of England |
| Died : | 11/30/1900 | Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris |
| Died : | 01/20/1900 | R D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74 |
| Died : | 06/05/1900 | Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies |
| Died : | 07/29/1900 | Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci |
| Died : | 01/30/1900 | Vittorio Bersezio. [Carlo Nugelli], Italian stagewriter, dies |
| Died : | 08/06/1900 | Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies |
| Died : | 12/27/1900 | William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Brit const (hydr faucet), dies at 90 |
| Interest: | 03/30/1900 | [RC] Commemoration of St Leonard Murialdo, Italian priest/educator |
| Special : | 07/12/1900 | 114øF (46øC), Basin, Wyoming (state record) |
| Special : | 04/30/1900 | 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match |
| Special : | 02/16/1900 | 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes 1st issue, SF |
| Special : | 08/10/1900 | 1st Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (Mass) US beats England |
| Special : | 08/08/1900 | 1st Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston |
| Special : | 01/01/1900 | 1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel) |
| Special : | 03/26/1900 | 1st edition The (Free) People |
| Special : | 04/01/1900 | 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People" |
| Special : | 08/14/1900 | 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht) |
| Special : | 04/23/1900 | 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal) |
| Special : | 11/03/1900 | 1st national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC) |
| Special : | 07/08/1900 | 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids) |
| Special : | 08/14/1900 | 2,000 marines land to capture Peking, ending Boxer rebellion |
| Special : | 09/10/1900 | 20.3 cm rainfall at Each Point, South Dakota (state record) |
| Special : | 05/08/1900 | 250 grave robbers shot to death |
| Special : | 05/20/1900 | 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months) |
| Special : | 06/30/1900 | 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die |
| Special : | 09/08/1900 | 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas |
| Special : | 04/17/1900 | 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession |
| Special : | 02/22/1900 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #453 Tea |
| Special : | 03/28/1900 | A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #454 Mathesis |
| Special : | 10/28/1900 | After over 5 months Paris Olympic games close |
| Special : | 03/05/1900 | American Hall of Fame found |
| Special : | 04/15/1900 | An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs |
| Special : | 04/04/1900 | Assassinaton attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII |
| Special : | 05/23/1900 | Associated Press News Service forms in NY |
| Special : | 05/22/1900 | Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative |
| Special : | 04/05/1900 | Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails |
| Special : | 07/09/1900 | Australia accepts its constitution |
| Special : | 11/13/1900 | Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League |
| Special : | 10/02/1900 | Belg crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern |
| Special : | 02/27/1900 | Boer General Cronj‚ surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa |
| Special : | 05/24/1900 | Britain annexes Orange Free State |
| Special : | 05/28/1900 | Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) |
| Special : | 05/18/1900 | Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga |
| Special : | 09/03/1900 | British annex Natal (South Africa) |
| Special : | 01/01/1900 | British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established |
| Special : | 08/31/1900 | British troops over run Johannesburg |
| Special : | 12/27/1900 | Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS) |
| Special : | 06/13/1900 | China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians |
| Special : | 09/17/1900 | Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed |
| Special : | 01/01/1900 | Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect |
| Special : | 07/05/1900 | Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber |
| Special : | 02/27/1900 | Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party |
| Special : | 07/02/1900 | Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies |
| Special : | 02/14/1900 | Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock" |
| Special : | 08/31/1900 | Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies |
| Special : | 06/26/1900 | Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever |
| Special : | 12/09/1900 | Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession |
| Special : | 06/18/1900 | Empress Douairire orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners |
| Special : | 10/25/1900 | England annexes Transvaal |
| Special : | 05/25/1900 | Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics |
| Special : | 09/05/1900 | France proclaims a protectorate over Chad |
| Special : | 09/08/1900 | Galveston Texas destroyed by hurricane, most deadly in US history |
| Special : | 05/08/1900 | Galveston Texas, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die |
| Special : | 06/12/1900 | German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power |
| Special : | 12/20/1900 | Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft) |
| Special : | 05/19/1900 | Great Britain annexes Tonga archipeligo |
| Special : | 07/28/1900 | Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut |
| Special : | 10/05/1900 | Harry Vardon wins US Open golf tournament |
| Special : | 06/14/1900 | Hawaiian Republic becomes US Territory of Hawaii |
| Special : | 05/11/1900 | Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett at Coney Island NY |
| Special : | 10/19/1900 | Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition |
| Special : | 04/19/1900 | Highest scoring opening game, Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10 |
| Special : | 04/15/1900 | International Exposition opens in Paris |
| Special : | 04/06/1900 | Jim Jeffries KO's Jack Finnegan in 55 seconds |
| Special : | 04/--/1900 | L Frank Baum writes "Wizard of Oz" |
| Special : | 02/07/1900 | Labour Party forms in England |
| Special : | 05/22/1900 | M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #455 Bruchsalia |
| Special : | 06/04/1900 | M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #456 Abnoba |
| Special : | 09/15/1900 | M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #457 Alleghenia |
| Special : | 09/21/1900 | M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #458 Hercynia |
| Special : | 10/31/1900 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #463 Lola |
| Special : | 05/17/1900 | Mafeking under seige by Boers |
| Special : | 03/17/1900 | Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 for the Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 02/16/1900 | Montr‚al Shamrocks beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 for Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 12/12/1900 | National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed |
| Special : | 08/23/1900 | National Negro Business League organizes (Boston) |
| Special : | 01/24/1900 | Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, formed in England |
| Special : | 02/02/1900 | Opera "Louise" is produced (Paris) |
| Special : | 07/23/1900 | Pan-African Congress meets in London |
| Special : | 04/24/1900 | Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer |
| Special : | 01/03/1900 | Perihelion Passage |
| Special : | 07/13/1900 | Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8 |
| Special : | 07/21/1900 | Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite |
| Special : | 05/01/1900 | Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah |
| Special : | 11/06/1900 | Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan |
| Special : | 07/24/1900 | Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed |
| Special : | 01/27/1900 | Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention |
| Special : | 06/08/1900 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG) |
| Special : | 10/04/1900 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG) |
| Special : | 02/23/1900 | Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in SF Bay |
| Special : | 09/02/1900 | Telegraph use between Germany & US begins |
| Special : | 01/14/1900 | The opera "Tosca" is produced (Rome) |
| Special : | 10/07/1900 | The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event |
| Special : | 11/08/1900 | Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published |
| Special : | 05/29/1900 | Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co |
| Special : | 03/25/1900 | US Socialist Party formed at Indianapolis |
| Special : | 03/14/1900 | US currency goes on gold standard |
| Special : | 05/31/1900 | US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion |
| Special : | 04/30/1900 | USA annexes Hawaii |
| Special : | 04/14/1900 | Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley established |
| Special : | 11/12/1900 | World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors) |
| Special : | 11/21/1900 | 74øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
| Special : | 05/15/1900 | 90øF highest temperature for this date in NYC |
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