* 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 )

Barton's last field operation as President of the American Red Cross was the relief effort for the victims of the Galveston hurricane of September 1900.

On July 27 1900, when Wilhelm II spoke during departure ceremonies for the German contingent to the relief force in China, an impromptu, but intemperate reference to the Hun invaders of continental Europe would later be resurrected by British propaganda to mock Germany during World War I and World War II.

The Salvation Army's reputation in the United States improved as a result of its disaster relief efforts following the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

In the USA The Salvation Army's first major forays into disaster relief resulted from the tragedies of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

* Chinese relief expedition, 1900

Lord Roberts enters the city of Kimberley, Northern Cape | Kimberley after the relief of the besieged city during February 1900

He served in the South African Light Horse alongside his war correspondent brother in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1900, where he was Mentioned in Dispatches, and shot through the leg during the Battle of the Tugela Heights, part of the campaign for the relief of Ladysmith.

Eventually, with the Tugela in flood, preventing Buller from giving any support, some younger leaders persuaded Joubert to order a storming attempt on the night of 5 January 1900, before another relief attempt could be made.

The following day, on the afternoon of the 28 February 1900 Captain Gough led the relief column into Ladysmith, followed by, amongst others, Winston Churchill.

The Moneylenders Act 1900 allowed the court to re-open a moneylending transaction if there was evidence that interest rates were " harsh and unconscionable or otherwise such that a court of equity would give relief ", unless the moneylender could justify the rates.

In 1900 the crew of the Russian coast defense ship General-Admiral Graf Apraksin as well as stranded Finnish fishermen were saved in the Gulf of Finland because of exchange of distress telegrams between two radiostations, located at Hogland island and inside a Russian naval base in Kotka.

By 1900, the tortoises were nearly extinct, and a crew would often have to hunt for three days to find one.

In 1900 a radio station was established under Popov's instructions on Hogland island ( Suursaari ) to provide two-way communication by wireless telegraphy between the Russian naval base and the crew of the battleship General-Admiral Apraksin.

Due to bad weather and bureaucratic red tape, the crew of Apraksin did not arrive until January 1900 to establish a wireless station on Hogland Island.

He coxed the Cambridge crew in the 1899 and 1900 Boat Races.

The crew of HMCS Protector in 1900.

In 1900, he decided to leave and coach the crew of Columbia University, New York for some years.

In former times, from around 1600 to 1900, a " sally port " was a sort of dock where boats would pick up a ship's crew and ferry them to the vessel anchored offshore, or vice versa.

He emigrated from Italy to Canada in 1900 and, after working in a coal mine and railroad crew, began preaching in a Presbyterian mission.