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1900 Calendar

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•  January 31, 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
•  February 18, 1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
•  February 23, 1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart’s Hill.
•  February 27, 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
•  March 14, 1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
•  June 9, 1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
•  August 14, 1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
•  September 13, 1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
•  October 19, 1900 – Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).

•  June 6, 1900 – Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
•  June 24, 1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
•  July 23, 1900 – John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010)
•  August 19, 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer (d. 1962)
•  September 18, 1900 – Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)
•  October 10, 1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
•  October 16, 1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971)
•  October 30, 1900 – Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
•  November 20, 1900 – Chester Gould, American comic strip artist (d. 1985)
•  December 8, 1900 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)