* 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 )

In Britain, the legal maximum speed of precluded road racing, but in April and May 1900, the Automobile Club of Great Britain ( the forerunner of the Royal Automobile Club ) organised the Thousand Mile Trial, a 15-day event linking Britain's major cities, in order to promote this novel form of transport.

Manufacturers had entered works cars in rallies, and in their forerunner and cousin events, from the very beginning: the 1894 Paris-Rouen was mainly a competition between them, while the Thousand Mile Trial of 1900 had more trade than private entries.

While the archetype for a murder mystery dates back to " The Three Apples " in the One Thousand and One Nights, crime fiction began to be considered as a serious genre only around 1900.

However, a recipe for Thousand Island dressing dating from 1900 has mayonnaise and ketchup and pickles as the only ingredients, albeit in a 1: 1 ratio.

Thousand Island dressing is attested in a 1900 cookbook, in a context implying that it was known by then in New Orleans.

In March 1900, the Bolívar park was the scene of the first battle of the " Thousand Days ' War ", between liberals and conservatives.

Recognizing the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) four-cylinder Napier in the Automobile Club's 1900 Thousand Miles ( 1600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

As the Thousand Days War began in Colombia, the Liberals in Panama sent for Porras to lead the invasion of the Isthmus in 1900.

Palonegro The site was the historic setting of political strife and the battle of the same name, which took place on 25 May 1900, during the War of the Thousand Days.

According to the Tax Foundation, the following is a list of Tax Freedom Days in the U. S. since 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.

Today, the history that is ' given back ' to us ( precisely because it was taken from us ) has no more of a relation to a ' historical real ' than neofiguration in painting does to the classical figuration of the real ... All, but not only, those historical films whose very perfection is disquieting: Chinatown, Three Days of the Condor, Barry Lyndon, 1900, All the President's Men, etc.

" MAKANNA " is held under the auspices of Sir Tom Stoppard and Václav Havel to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Jiří Weil ( 1900 – 1959 ) and as part of the " Daniel Pearl World Music Days ".

55 Days at Peking is a dramatization of the siege of the foreign legations ' compounds in Peking ( now Beijing ) during the Boxer Rebellion which took place in 1900 China.

The National Hobo Convention is held on the second weekend of every August since 1900 in the town of Britt, Iowa, organized by the local Chamber of Commerce, and known throughout the town as the annual " Hobo Days " celebration.

The engraving shown at right, based on that drawing, was published in Alice Morse Earle, Stagecoach and Tavern Days ( 1900 ).

* Bloody Sunday ( 1900 ), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa

* 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20, 000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.

* 1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day " Siege of Ladysmith " is lifted.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.

In the Khaki Election of 1900, nationalist concern with the Boer War meant that the Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies gained a majority of Scottish seats for the first time, although the Liberals regained their ascendancy in the next election.

Although the term is not documented until 1900, a conjectural etymology for the term is that it originated in 17th century Ireland for Protestant supporters of King William III during the Williamite War.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.

* 1900 – The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat.

* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

Jerusalem Day marks the 1967 reunification of Jerusalem and The Temple Mount under Jewish rule during the Six-Day War almost 1900 years after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.

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

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the Lost Generation as the cohorts born from 1883 to 1900, who came of age during World War I and the roaring twenties.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.

This facilitates consideration of specific reactions to the use of technology in the First World War, and anti-technological and nihilistic aspects of the works of diverse thinkers and artists spanning the period from Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844 – 1900 ) to Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 1989 ).

* 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.

* 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

* 1981 – Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler ( b. 1900 )

* 2006 – August Bischof, last living Austrian World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )