One of the survivors of the 1900 Galveston Storm was the Hollywood director King Vidor, who made his directing debut in 1913 with the film Hurricane in Galveston.

By 1900 the population had reduced to 30 survivors, just 10 % of the original number, as influenza and measles took their toll.

It began on April 15, 1900, and lasted four days before the survivors were rescued.

When it became apparent that the couple were unlikely to have a son, Queen Victoria renamed Alexander Duke of Fife and Earl of Macduff in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1900, giving the second dukedom of Fife a special remainder in default of male issue to the Duke's daughters and their agnatic male descendants.

Therefore, on 24 April 1900, Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent creating a second Dukedom of Fife, along with the Earldom of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom with a special remainder: in default of a male heir, these peerages would pass to the daughters of the 1st Duke and then to their male descendants.

According to the German census of 1900, Masurians, the Lutheran descendants of the Masovian colonists, constituted 74. 5 % of Ortelsburg's population.

At least two of Abel's descendants — his son Enoch and Enoch's son Elijah — were ordained to the priesthood: Enoch was ordained an elder on November 27, 1900 ; and Elijah was ordained an elder on September 29, 1935.

From Chervonohrad stem the Jewish descendants of Shlomo Turteltaub, who was born in Chervonohrad ( then Krystynopol ), circa 1900.

It was restored in 1900 by his descendants and bought by the National Trust for the sum of £ 15. 00 in 1938.

Rail operations were maintained continuously by various corporate descendants on the growing system that ultimately became the B & LE in 1900.

On May 6, 1900 her descendants, both white and Indian, raised a monument at her gravesite that still stands today.

In 1900 a comprehensive account of the entire Marcus family and its descendants was published in Sweden as a large printed circular chart, and an extensive family roster was updated until 1942 by Curt Marcus.

Such too was the pattern of their lives, and one followed by 100 of the 150 or so male descendants of Mulla Qutub al-Din born before 1900, about whose activities we have some evidence.

For the period from 1900 to 1979, there were no external identifications of a Nipmuck entity broader than some of the Hassanamisco proprietary descendants.

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.

Newcomb's tables formed the basis of all astronomical ephemerides of the Sun from 1900 through 1983: they were originally expressed ( and published ) in terms of Greenwich Mean Time and the mean solar day, but later, in respect of the period 1960 – 1983, they were treated as expressed in terms of ET, in accordance with the adopted ET proposal of 1948 – 52.

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

Around 1900, producers bent the tin that formed the bottom of a pan into a series of flues, which increased the heated surface area of the pan and again decreased boiling time.

The social reforms of the last century continued into the 20th with the Labour Party being formed in 1900.

The Liberal Party was one of the two dominant parties ( along with the Conservatives ) from its founding until the 1920s, when it rapidly declined and was supplanted on the left by the Labour Party, which was founded in 1900 and formed its first government in 1924.

The club was formed in 1878 and have played at their home ground since 1900.

** Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, formed in 1900 and abolished in 1965

She emerged from the timestream about 1900 years in the future and formed the Clan Askani, which was responsible for bringing her brother Nathan to their time to fight Apocalypse.

They formed a separate synod in 1900.

John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO ( 20 July 184431 January 1900 ) was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the " Marquess of Queensberry rules " that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.

The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was formed in 1900 ; in 1965, the area became part of the newly-created London Borough of Lewisham.

The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was formed in 1900, then dissolved in 1965 when it was absorbed into the newly created London Borough of Tower Hamlets which currently administers the area.

The borough was formed in 1965, by the London Government Act 1963, as an amalgamation of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham and the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford, which had been created in 1900 as divisions of the County of London.

In 1900, both lines ( north-south and east-west ) that ran through Plymouth, came under ownership of the newly formed Pere Marquette railway as stated above.

Secaucus was originally formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 12, 1900, from portions of North Bergen.

The lake was formed in the last great ice age, but since 1900, has experienced cultural eutrophication.

Estill was formed in 1900 when the railroad, later Seaboard Air Lines Railroad, needed a rail line between Augusta, Georgia and Savannah, Georgia.

Lancaster National Bank ( later Chesapeake National Bank and currently Chesapeake Bank ) was formed in Irvington in 1900 to cater to the growing town.

A school district was formed sometime between 1900 and 1904.

Haworth West End Cricket Club was formed in 1900 as the Haworth West Lane Baptist Cricket Club.

It was built in 1903 to a design by Leeds architect Edward J Dodgshun by the Rothwell, Methley and Hunslet Joint Isolation Hospital Committee which was formed under the Isolation Hospitals Act 1893 by an order of the West Riding County Council 10 January 1900.

Below Tom Miller Dam is Red Bud Isle, a small island formed by the 1900 collapse of the McDonald Dam that serves as a recreation area with a dog park and access to the lake for canoeing and fishing.

Under the discretion of his father, Stilwell was placed into a post-graduate course following graduation, and immediately formed a group of friends whose activities ranged from card playing to stealing the desserts from the senior dance in 1900.

The writer of a William Randolph Hearst-syndicated comic strip titled Little Margie in Misty Magic Land, Case wrote Promethea into her comic book as a helpful spirit to the titular young adventurer, and ended up personifying Promethea to help soldiers on the battlefield from 1900 – 1920, in a manner similar to the legendary Angels of Mons.

His widow, Lady Randolph Churchill, married George Cornwallis-West in 1900, when she became known as Mrs. George Cornwallis-West.

Cornwallis-West and Lady Randolph Churchill were married on 28 July 1900, much to the dismay of her sons Winston and John, who were nearly the same age as their stepfather.

) It should be noted that Ricketts younger brother, Randolph, attended the one-year pupil ’ s course at Kneller Hall, for advanced training on his instrument, and entered the Student Bandmaster course in 1900.