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1900 Calendar

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•  January 16, 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
•  January 29, 1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
•  January 31, 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
•  February 28, 1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
•  April 30, 1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
•  June 20, 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
•  July 2, 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
•  July 29, 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
•  October 25, 1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

•  January 1, 1900 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
•  April 5, 1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
•  April 25, 1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
•  April 28, 1900 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)
•  May 25, 1900 – Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
•  May 28, 1900 – Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
•  June 17, 1900 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
•  October 7, 1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
•  October 10, 1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
•  November 20, 1900 – Chester Gould, American comic strip artist (d. 1985)