* Gene Austin ( 1900 – 1972 ), American singer

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

* 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 )

A report of the United States ' Philippine Commission in 1900 showed, only 10 out of 23 municipalities in Nueva Ecija had a public school established during the Spanish times and according to the Philippine Commission figures by 1902, 37 public primary schools were established, and 63 Novo Ecijano teachers supported by 16 American " Thomasites ," part of the larger group of some 500 pioneer American teachers who arrived aboard the USS Thomas in September 1901, to help establish an American public school system in the Philippines.

When the Philippines was under American colonial rule, the legislative body was the Philippine Commission which existed from September 1900 to October 1907.

On March 29, 1900, Pateros became one of the towns in the newly-created province of Rizal, by virtue of General Order No. 40, Act No. 137 of the Philippine Commission, which was promulgated on June 11, 1901.

When Cushing became ill, Culin continued the work and eventually published three inter-related papers: American Indian Games ( 1898 ), Hawaiian Games ( 1899 ) and Philippine Games ( 1900 ).

# See U. S. presidential election, 1900 Misleading Philippine War claims by the Republicans

Captain Fuller participated in the Battle of Novaleta, Philippine Islands on October 8, 1899 and was commended for gallant, meritorious, and courageous conduct in the Battle of Tientsin, China on July 13, 1900.

In 1900, Wright was a member of the second Philippine Commission and was appointed vice-governor of the Philippines in 1901.

For distinguished conduct in the presence of the enemy in battle at Katbalogan, Samar, Philippine Islands, July 16, 1900.

In 1900, the First Philippine Commission passed Act No. 52, which placed all banks under the Bureau of the Treasury and authorizing the Insular Treasurer to supervise and examine banks and all banking activity.

Carig, Philippine Islands, September 14, 1900 ( Section S, Grave 854 )

Wendell Fertig ( 16 December 1900 – 24 March 1975 ) was an American civil engineer, in the American-administered Commonwealth of the Philippines, who organized and commanded an American-Filipino guerrilla force on the Japanese-occupied, southern Philippine island of Mindanao during World War II.

* Philippine Commission-" Taft Commission " ( 1900 )

In 1900, when the United States took control of the Philippines, the American Congress ( or Philippine Commission?

On November 22, 1900, during the American Period, Tuba was made a township by virtue of Act No. 1397 of the Philippine Commission.

No. 82 passed by the Second Philippine Commission in 1900.

Benito Legarda stated this definition before the United States Philippine Commission ( 1899 – 1900 ) citing Wenceslao Retana's Diccionario de filipinismos ( 1921 ).

Brown served with engineer troops in Cuba in 1898 at the Battle of San Juan Hill and the siege of Santiago before being made Engineer of the Department of Northern Luzon in the Philippine Islands in 1900.

By 1900 the 22nd Regiment was enroute piece meal to the Philippines when the Philippine – American War broke out.

He commanded the gunboat from 1899 to 1900, operating in the West Indies and the Philippine Islands – where Nashville provided gunfire support to American troops fighting against Filipino insurgents during the Philippine-American War – and off China during the Boxer Rebellion.