* Gene Austin ( 1900 – 1972 ), American singer

* 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1984 )

* 1900 – Philippine – American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U. S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

* 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

* 1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.

* 1900 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( d. 1900 )

* 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist ( d. 2003 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet ( d. 1900 )

* 1984 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( b. 1900 )

* 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player ( d. 1965 )

* 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

* 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( d. 1945 )

* 1900 – John T. Scopes, American teacher ( d. 1970 )

* 1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

* 1900 – Estelle Brody, American actress ( d. 1995 )

* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

* 1900 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress ( d. 1974 )

* 1900 – Colleen Moore, American actress ( d. 1988 )

* 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer ( d. 1962 )

* 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher ( d. 1976 )

* 1840 – Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch missionary and bishop ( d. 1900 )

* 1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1981 )

Since these first accounts, Bulgarian authorities had organized several population censuses: 1892, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2011.

Second Ellis Island Immigration Station, opened on December 17, 1900 ( photo 1905 )

During 1900 it was adopted by Germany, by Russia in 1904, the British West Indies in 1905, Spain in 1906, Belgium in 1909, Argentina in 1912, and Romania in 1913.

After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather Martin Javeršek in the Slovenian village of Podsreda, he entered primary school in 1900 at Kumrovec, he failed the 2nd grade and graduated in 1905.

Friedrich Alfred Krupp, 1900. Workers in 1905.

400 AD ), Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( 1718 – 1799 ), Emmy Noether ( 1882 – 1935 ), Sophie Germain ( 1776 – 1831 ), Sofia Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891 ), Alicia Boole Stott ( 1860 – 1940 ), Rózsa Péter ( 1905 – 1977 ), Julia Robinson ( 1919 – 1985 ), Olga Taussky-Todd ( 1906 – 1995 ), Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 – 1749 ), Mary Cartwright ( 1900 – 1998 ), Olga Ladyzhenskaya ( 1922 – 2004 ), and Olga Oleinik ( 1925 – 2001 ).

* Spencer Tracy in the 1900 US Census, 1905 Wisconsin Census, 1910 US Census, Ohio Marriage Records, 1930 US Census, and Social Security Death Index.

** 1896, First report of the station on adulterated food products ; 1897 ; 1898 ; 1899 ; 1900 ; 1901 ; 1902 ; 1903 ; 1904 ; 1905 ; 1906 ; 1907: Food, Food, Drugs ; 1908: Not located ; 1909: Not located ; 1910: Not located ; 1911: Food, Drugs

A number of newer local anesthetic agents, many of them derivatives of cocaine, were synthesized in the 20th century, including eucaine ( 1900 ), amylocaine ( 1904 ), procaine ( 1905 ), and lidocaine ( 1943 ).

From 1900 to 1905, Gorky ’ s writings became more optimistic.

During the five years 1901 – 1905 the average annual value of exports was £ 8, 388, 000 (£ 6, 363, 000 in the years 1896 – 1900 ), of imports £ 4, 145, 000 (£ 3, 759, 000 in 1896 – 1900 ).

Other writers, such as F. G. Edwards in 1900 and Robert Buckley in 1905, have held that the theme is a " countermelody to some other unheard tune ": it would fit when played simultaneously, but does not necessarily contain any of its characteristics other than the most general harmonic or structural outline.

Fires in 1905 and 1934 and violent storms in 1900, 1913, 1945 and 1974 destroyed much of Nome's gold rush era architecture.

In 1900, the county courthouse was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt in 1905.

After his time in the Silver Valley of Idaho, he followed the mining booms to South Africa, British Columbia, and the Klondike ; he published his autobiography in 1900 and died in El Paso, Texas in 1905.

1890 Lee Fox built the first sawmill within the Lake Arthur corporate limits ; it was destroyed by fire in 1905, as was the Brewer, Reynolds and Streater Mill that had been built on the lake front in 1900.

Also included among the businesses were no less than three weekly newspapers: The Lovelock Tribune, which ran from May 1898 until February 1912 ; the short-lived Lovelock Standard ( April – September 1900 ); and The Argus ( May 1900-Jan 1905 ).

Portions of the township were taken to form Metuchen on March 20, 1900, and Highland Park on March 15, 1905.

1900 – 1905 James Seaman ( R )

Catholic and Baptist congregations started holding services in private homes around 1900 ; their sanctuaries were completed between 1905 and 1907.

Population statistics for the former Kingdom of Württemberg's four departments ( Kreise ) for 1900 and 1905 appear below.

Other works by him are: Kassia ( 1897 ), a treatise on a 9th century Byzantine poetess, with the fragments ; Michael Glykas ( 1894 ); Die griechische Litteratur das Mittelalters in Paul Hinneberg ’ s Die Kultur der Gegenwart, i. 8 ( 1905 ); Das Problem der neugriechischen Schriftsprache ( 1902 ), in which he strongly opposed the efforts of the purists to introduce the classical style into modern Greek literature, and Populäre Aufsätze ( 1900 ).

He was accepted to the Royal Academy of Music in 1900, where he remained until 1905.