* 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 )

On July 27, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in China, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave the order to act ruthlessly towards the rebels: " Mercy will not be shown, prisoners will not be taken.

The Boxer Rebellion trapped the Hoovers in Tianjin in June 1900.

* 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.

* 1900 – Boxer Rebellion.

* 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.

* 1900 – Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.

His contributions included the adoption of an Open Door Policy in China ( announced on January 2, 1900 ) which may have been a contributing factor in the Boxer Rebellion, and the preparations for the Panama Canal.

Following the Boxer rebellion in China and the Boer War, a second navy bill was passed on 14 June 1900.

She found herself billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in the epic 55 Days at Peking in 1963, a lavish version of the Chinese revolt against foreign control during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

During the Boxer Rebellion, Imperial Chinese forces deployed a weapon called " electric mines " on June 15, at the Peiho river before the Battle of Dagu Forts ( 1900 ), to prevent the western Eight-Nation Alliance from sending ships to attack.

In June 1900 in Beijing, Boxer fighters threatened foreigners and forced them to seek refuge in the Legation Quarter.

In Spring 1900, the Boxer movement spread rapidly north from Shandong into the countryside near Beijing.

The Chinese army and Boxer irregulars besieged the Legation Quarter from 20 June to 14 August 1900.

In 1900 Empress Dowager Cixi fled from the Forbidden City during the Boxer Rebellion, leaving it to be occupied by forces of the treaty powers until the following year.

In 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the Eight Nation Alliance occupied the temple complex and turned it into the force's temporary command in Beijing, which lasted for one year.

In 1900, Spike killed a Slayer in China during the Boxer Rebellion.

* The library of the Hanlin Academy, containing irreplaceable ancient Chinese manuscripts, was mostly destroyed in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion.

The new mass media promoted jingoism in the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ), and the Boxer Rebellion ( 1900 ).

From the end of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 until the start of the World War I the Gurkha Regiments saw active service in Burma, Afghanistan, the North-East Frontier and the North-West Frontiers of India, Malta ( the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 78 ), Cyprus, Malaya, China ( the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 ) and Tibet ( Younghusband's Expedition of 1905 ).

In 1900, Japan and many western countries dispatched forces to China to protect their citizens and Chinese Christians from the Boxer Uprising.

During the Boxer Rebellion, in the summer of 1900, Bowra was evacuated to Japan, along with his mother, older brother Edward, and other women and children of the European community.

During the autumn of 1900 he went to China as part of the international expedition sent to combat the Boxer Rebellion.

The palace complex suffered two major attacks — during the Anglo-French allied invasion of 1860 ( with the Old Summer Palace also ransacked at the same time ), and during the Boxer Rebellion, in an attack by the eight allied powers in 1900.