1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. 1900 - Events. January 2 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 - Chicago Canal opens. January 5 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. January 6 - It is reported that millions are starving in India. January 6 - Boers attack Ladysmith - over 1000 people were killed. January 8 - United States President William McKinley ...

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1900 - Month/day unknown. Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist and temperance movement pioneer (b. 1820) ...

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1900 - January. January 2 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 - Chicago Canal opens. January 5 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. January 6 - It is reported that millions are starving in India. January 6 - Boers attack Ladysmith - over 1000 people were killed. January 8 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule. January 13 - Kaiser of ...

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The 1900 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France. Despite Greek efforts to keep the Games in their country, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold them at a different place each Games. The Games competed for visitors with the 1900 World's Fair, which was also held at Paris at the same time. 1900 Summer Olympics - Highlights. Alvin Kraenzlein won the 60 metres, the 110 metres, the 220 metre hurdles, and the long jump events ...

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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a cricket tournament was contested. Although four teams were originally expected to compete, Belgium and Holland (the Netherlands) pulled out of the competition, leaving a Great Britain side to play a France side. Neither team was nationally selected. The British side was a touring club team, Devon & Somerset Wanderers. The French team consisted of Britons living in Paris, reportedly mostly members of the British Embassy. By Captain's agreement the game wa ...

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The Free Church of Scotland is that part of the original Free Church of Scotland that remained outside of the union with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1900. It remains a distinct Presbyterian denomination in Scotland to this day. Free Church of Scotland post 1900 - Aftermath of the union of 1900. In 1900 the Free Church of Scotland united with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland. However, a minority of the original Free Church remained outsid ...

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1900s - Technology. Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft Mass production of automobile Wide popularity of home phonograph Panama Canal is built by the United States 1900s - Science. Planck's law of black body radiation Einstein's theory of special relativity Einstein explains Brownian ...

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1900 in South Africa - January. 10 January - Frederick Roberts arrives at Cape Town to replace Redvers Henry Buller as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa. He is accompanied by Horatio Kitchener as his chief-of-staff Wessel Montshiwa, the Barolong chief advises his people not to assit the British during the siege of Mafeking 19-24 January - Battle of Spionkop Boer forces under the command of Louis Botha defeat the British fo ...

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Washington, D.C. September 9, 1900 To: Manager, Western Union Houston, Texas Willis L. Moore Chief, U.S. Weather Bureau The last train to reach Galveston left Houston on the morning of the September 8 at 9:45 a.m. It found the tracks washed out, and passengers were forced to transfer to a relief train on parallel tracks to complete their journey. Even then, ...

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The city of Galveston at the end of the 19th century was a booming metropolis with a population of 42,000. Its position on the natural harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade in the state of Texas. With this prosperity came a sense of complacency. A quarter of a century earlier, the nearby town of Indianola on Matagorda Bay was undergoing its own boom and was second to Galveston among Texas ports. Then in 1875, a powerful hurricane blew through, nearly destroying the town. Indianola was rebuilt, but a second hurricane in 188 ...

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1900 in rail transport - January events. January 1 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company, Detriot, Lansing and Northern Railroad and Chicago and West Michigan Railroad. 1900 in rail transport - April events. April 24 - Illinois Central engineer Casey Jones crashes his train just north of Vaughan, Mississip ...

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The city of Galveston at the end of the 19th century was a booming metropolis with a population of 42,000. Its position on the natural harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade and the biggest city in the state of Texas. With this prosperity came a sense of complacency. A quarter of a century earlier, the nearby town of Indianola on Matagorda Bay was undergoing its own boom and was second to Galveston among Texas ports. Then in 1875, a powerful hurricane blew through, nearly destroying the town. Indianola was rebuilt, but a second hurricane in 188 ...

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Survivors set up temporary shelters in surplus U.S. Army tents along the shore. They were so numerous that observers began referring to it as the "White City on the Beach". Others constructed so-called "storm lumber" homes, using salvageable material from the debris to build shelter. By September 12, the first post-storm mail was received at Galveston. The next day, basic water service was restored, and Western Union began providing minimal telegraph service. Within th ...

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Houston, Texas 11:25 P.M. September 9, 1900 To: Willis Moore Chief, U.S. Weather Bureau G.L. Vaughan Manager, Western Union, Houston At the time of the 1900 storm, the highest point in the city of Galveston was only 8.7 feet (2.7 m) above sea level. The hurricane had brought with it a storm surge of over 15 feet (4.6 m), which washed over the entire island. The surge knocked buildings off their foundations, and the surf pounded them to pieces. Over 3,600 homes were destroyed, and a wall of de ...

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To prevent future storms from causing destruction like that of the 1900 hurricane, many improvements to the island were made. The first three miles (4.8 km) of the 17-foot-high (5.2 m) Galveston Seawall were built beginning in 1902 under the direction of Henry Martyn Robert. An all-weather bridge was constructed to the mainland to replace the ones destroyed in the storm. The most dramatic effort to protect the city was its raising. Dredged sand was used to raise the city of Galveston by as much as 17 feet (5.2 m) above its previous el ...

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The storm's origins are unclear, due to the limited observation ability at the end of the 19th century. Ship reports were the only reliable tool for observing hurricanes at sea, and because wireless telegraphy was in its infancy, these reports were not available until the ships put in at a harbor. Like most powerful Atlantic hurricanes, the 1900 storm is believed to have begun as a Cape Verde-type hurricane—a tropical wave moving off the western coast of Africa. The first formal sighting of the hurricane's precursor occurred on August 27, about one thousand miles (1,600 km) east of the Windward Island ...

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Gold, silver, and bronze medals were retroactively awarded by the International Olympic Committee to reflect later practice of awarding such medals to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place competitors, respectively. Early Olympic Games, such as the 1900 Summer Olympics, had no set schedule of awards. (Host nation highlighted.) ...

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The amir's realm is quiet during the year. Some suspicions that Abdor Rahman is acting unfaithfully towards the British are entirely dispelled by his loyal attitude in refusing to aid the rebel tribesmen engaged in the frontier war, or even to sympathize with them. Afghanistan timeline 1896-1900 - January 1897. The Kamdesh Kafirs are being rapidly disarmed. The headmen of the villages in the Bashgal Valley send a deputation to the Sipah Salar (commander-in-chief) requesting him to keep back the forc ...

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