* 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 – 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 )

* January 25 – Colleen Moore, American actress ( b. 1900 )

She was hulked as a depot ship in 1900, renamed Colleen in 1913 and transferred to the Irish Free State in 1923.

Noted portrait and landscape artist Verner Moore White moved from Galveston the day before the 1900 hurricane.

He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic film 1900 and as the conflicted father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People ( 1980 ) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

James Solomon McDonald ( later Solomon McDonald Vincent Burke ) was born on the upper floor of the home of his maternal grandmother, Eleanor Alma " Mother " Moore ( born about 1900 in Florence, South Carolina ; died 19 December 1954 in Philadelphia ) in a row house at 3036 Mt Vernon Street, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

From 1894 to 1900, Moore served as probate judge in Phillips County, Arkansas.

In 1899 Moore was elected to the Bunbury Municipal Council, and was Mayor of Bunbury from 1900 to 1904.

Captain Newton James Moore, Bunbury Rifle Volunteers, 1900

* Walter Buckmaster, ( 1872 – 1942 ) Polo player ( 1900 summer Olympics ) and founder partners of London stockbrokers Buckmaster & Moore ( now Credit Suisse Group )

In 1900 he made the acquaintance of W. B. Yeats ( of whom his mother highly approved ) and of George Moore ( of whom she did not ) and began to frequent Dublin literary circles.

While Gordon Moore first observed in 1965 that the transistor densities of integrated circuits were doubling every two years, an extended analysis shows that computers have been experiencing exponential improvements to their cost-performance ( maximum number of calculations per second per $ 1, 000 ) since at least 1900, when the very first electromechanical computers were invented.

They had three children: Dorothy Mae Moore, ( born 1900 ); Elliott McFarlan Moore ( 1902 – 1933 ); and Beatrice Jean Moore, ( born 1912 ).

Through the 1890s, Potter sent illustrated story letters to the children of her former governess, Annie Moore, and, in 1900, Moore, realizing the commercial potential of Potter's stories, suggested they be made into books.

" Many law firms have an " up or out policy " ( pioneered around 1900 by partner Paul Cravath of Cravath, Swaine & Moore ): associates who do not make partner are required to resign and join another firm, go it alone as a solo practitioner, go to work in-house in a corporate legal department, or change professions ( burnout rates are very high in law ).

* Moore N Dorothy Hewett in Birns N and McNeer R A companion to Australian literature since 1900, Boydell & Brewer, 2007, 477 pp ; ISBN 1-57113-349-6, ISBN 978-1-57113-349-6

In 1900, the United States Supreme Court in the case of Knowlton v. Moore, 178 U. S. 41 ( 1900 ), confirmed that the estate tax was a tax on the transfer of property as a result of a death and not a tax on the property itself.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

* 1900 – Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist ( d. 1978 )

* 1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist ( d. 1994 )

Prior to the 1900 season, the league changed its name to the American League and moved several franchises to larger, strategic locations.

The Brewers were there when the WL renamed itself the American League in 1900.

At the end of the 1900 season, the American League removed itself from baseball's National Agreement ( the formal understanding between the NL and the minor leagues ).

The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant led by player-manager Dick Padden, the final WL / AL championship season as a minor league .< ref >

Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics and roque, an American variation on croquet, an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

The Cleveland team originated in 1900 as the Lake Shores, when the American League ( AL ) was officially a minor league.

In 1900 the American League was still considered a minor league.

After the 1900 season, the American Base-Ball League formed as a rival professional league, and incidentally the club's old White Stockings nickname would be adopted by a new American League neighbor to the south.

* The Superfluous Men: Critics of American Culture, 1900 – 1945 / Robert Crunden., 1999

1900 is generally said to be the year that cola first came to Cuba, introduced to the island by American troops.

* 1958 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1900 )

* 1900 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress ( d. 1974 )

* 1841 – Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon ( d. 1900 )