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Top Song(s)
• Albert Campbell - Ma Blushin' Rosie
• George J Gaskin - When Cloe Sings a Song
• Louis Bradfield - I Want to Be a Military Man
• Arthur Collins - Mandy Lee
• Vess Ossman - Old Folks at Home (Way Down Upon the Swanee River)
Top Film(s)
• Sherlock Holmes Baffled
• The Delights of Automobiling
• Joan of Arc
• The Enchanted Drawing
• Grandma's Reading Glass
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) - L. Frank Baum
• Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington
• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
• Bambi - Bob Grant
• Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Famous Deaths
• January 2 – Zenas Bliss, Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient.
• January 22 – David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone and teleprinter.
• April 24 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, inventor and cable car pioneer.
• April 30 – Casey Jones, legendary train engineer.
• June 11 – Maria Isabella Boyd, U.S. Civil War spy for the Confederacy.
• August 2 – John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist.
• August 16 – John James Ingalls, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891.
• September 23 – William Marsh Rice, philanthropist and founder of Rice University.
• October 22 – John Sherman, 32nd United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• December 21 – Roger Wolcott, lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of Massachusetts.
Medical/Science/Technology
• February 7, The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 begins.
• April 14 - Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms.
• June 26 - Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever.
• January 5, Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University discovers the cause of the Earth's magnetism.
• October 3, The Wright brothers begin their first manned glider experimental flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• July 2, First flight of Zeppelin LZ-1, a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
• American explorer Robert Peary first sights Kaffeklubben Island, the northernmost point of land on Earth.
• Barnum Brown finds the first partial skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex in eastern Wyoming.
• Dr. James K. Hampson identifies the Island 35 Mastodon skeleton in the Mississippi River.
• Kodak introduce their first Brownie (camera).
Political Events
• February 3, Kentucky Governor William Goebel dies of wounds after being shot by assassins on January 30.
• March 5, Two U.S. cruisers are sent to Central America to protect U.S. interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
• November 6, Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan.
• February 14 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
• April 4 - Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII.
• January 2 – U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China.
• February 5 – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal in Nicaragua.
• February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created.
• May 21 – Russia invades Manchuria.
• October 9 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
National Events
• William Carney becomes first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor May 23, 1900.
• One of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history hits Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killing more than 6,000 people.
• January 29, The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• March 6, A coal mine explosion in West Virginia kills 50 miners.
• May 1, Scofield Mine disaster: An explosion of blasting powder in coal mine in Scofield, Utah kills at least 200.
• August 3, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded in Akron, Ohio, by Harvey Firestone.
• January 2, The first electric bus becomes operational in New York City.
• April 16, US Post Office issues its first stamp booklets, containing 12, 24, or 48 two-cent stamps
• April 30, Hawaii becomes an official U.S. territory.
• Milton S. Hershey introduces the milk chocolate Hershey bar.
Worldwide Events
• Future President Hoover caught in Boxer Rebellion for nearly a month beginning June 17, 1900.
• On June 20, 1900, Chinese nationalists behind the so?called Boxer Rebellion occupy the capital city of Peking.
• In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I is shot to death by Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-born anarchist July 29th.
• On November 22, 1900, the first car to be produced under the Mercedes name is taken for its inaugural drive in Cannstatt, Germany.
• September 13, Philippine–American War: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a large American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa.
• March 13 - In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
• March 26 - 1st edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, probably Amsterdam).
• June 26 - The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland.
• August 14 - 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht).
• August 20 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide four years of mandatory schooling.