* 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 )

to 1900 A. D. Archeology History Folklore, I. A. S.

By 1900 the demand for Beaux's work brought clients from Washington, D. C., to Boston, prompting the artist to move to New York City ; it was there she spent the winters, while summering at Green Alley, the home and studio she had built in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

He acquired his Ph. D. in 1900 after which he took his first school job a Principal in a St. Louis, Missouri Elementary School.

The Model 1900 was very similar to the model 1895, but with only a few components finished in O. D.

Ruth A. Drayer's book, Numerology, The Power in Numbers ( Square One Publishers ) says that around the turn of the century ( from 1800 to 1900 A. D .) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras ' work with Biblical reference.

* 1900 – Giuseppe Zangara, Italian assassin of Anton Cermak and attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt ( d. 1933 )

By the Imperial Session held in Washington, D. C. in 1900, there were 55, 000 members and 82 Temples.

The first woman in Sweden to complete a doctoral degree was Ellen Fries ( 1855 – 1900 ), who entered Uppsala university in 1877 and became a Ph. D. in history in 1883.

** Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman ( b. 1900 )

* March 20 – Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt ( b. 1900 )

* March 3 – Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist and temperance movement pioneer ( d. 1900 )

Mother of pearl and silver: The Andalusian ( 1888 – 1900 ), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

He studied at Chichester Technical and Art School, and in 1900 moved to London to train as an architect with the practice of W. D.

Sullivan died in 1900, and Richard D ' Oyly Carte died in 1901.

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

A first-hand account written by Captain James D. Winchester and published in 1900 tells that the Abbie M. Deering was bought by a company of twenty men who wanted to sail to the " Alaskan Gold Fields " during the Klondike Gold Rush.

* Bernard D. H. Tellegen ( 1900 – 1990 ), Dutch engineer and inventor

By 1900, a third, all electric powered passenger rail line known as the Detroit United Railway ( D. U. R.

Washington, D. C .: Government Printing Office, 1900.

* The Leader ( Irish newspaper ), a defunct Irish newspaper founded in 1900 by D. P. Moran

Helen Hayes was born in Washington D. C. on October 10, 1900.

His goal was almost completed in late 1900 while negotiating a deal with Robert D. Tobin and Theodore Price III, but was then retracted immediately.

There are two major types of saccadic suppression ( or masking ), the first is flash suppression ( the inability to see a flash of light during a saccade-see Dodge 1900 ) and the second is saccadic suppression of image displacement which is characterized by the inability to perceive whether a target has moved or not during a saccade ( Bridgeman, G., Hendry, D., & Stark, L., 1975 ).

On December 23, 1900, from a site on Cobb Island in the middle of the Potomac River near Washington, D. C., Fessenden said " one-two-three-four, is it snowing where you are Mr. Thiessen?