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* 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University ( b. 1816 )
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* 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 )
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The Christian hymn " The Lord is in His Holy Temple ", written in 1900 by William J. Kirkpatrick, is based on verse 2: 20.
* Electric Chair at Sing Sing, a 1900 photograph by William M. Vander Weyde, accompanied by a poem by Jared Carter.
Both Cecil ( Class of 1900 ) and William ( Class of 1901 ) graduated from the Academy, which they attended on scholarship.
In 1900, Jones studied briefly at William Tilly's Marburg Language Institute in Germany where he was first introduced to phonetics.
Edward Lippincott Tilton and William A. Boring won the 1897 competition to design the first phase, including the Main Building ( 1897 – 1900 ), Kitchen and Laundry Building ( 1900 – 01 ), Main Powerhouse ( 1900 – 01 ), and the Main Hospital Building ( 1900 – 01 ).
Architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building's design.
Another " singing arc " was described by William Duddell in 1900 ; Duddell used carbon electrodes but did not use a magnetic blowout.
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 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist ( d. 1991 )
* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )
* William Jelly ( 1835 – 1900 ), politician
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.
Supported in part by grants from the Council on Library Resources, William J. Barrow conducted research into paper decay and found that no more than three percent of the books published between 1900 and 1949 would survive more than fifty years.
* 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.
* Montgomery, William G. ( 1993 ) Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865 – 1900, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0-8071-1745-5
In 1900, a disagreement between William and white financial supporters of Witherspoon arose with apparent racial undertones, which were prevalent in Princeton.
In 1900, William Crookes isolated protactinium as an intensely radioactive material from uranium ; however, he could not characterize it as a new chemical element and thus named it uranium-X.
In 1900 and 1901, Harvard Observatory director William Henry Pickering led two searches for trans-Neptunian planets.
* William Leslie Edison ( 1878 – 1937 ) Inventor, graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, 1900.
In 1900, for example, William A. Clark had his election voided after the Senate concluded that he had bought eight of his fifteen votes in the Montana legislature.
In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft Governor-General of the Philippines.
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