April 1900 calendar

Events

• 02 Apr 1900 The Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
• 04 Apr 1900 Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales / King Edward VII
• 05 Apr 1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails.
• 06 Apr 1900 James J Jeffries knocks out Jack Finnegan in one for heavyweight boxing title.
• 14 Apr 1900 President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris France.
• 15 Apr 1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over two hours.
• 16 Apr 1900 US Post Office issues first books of postage stamps.
• 19 Apr 1900 Highest scoring opening game, Philadelphia Phillies beat Braves 19-17 in 10.
• 22 Apr 1900 Battle of Kousséri: French forces secure their domination of Chad. Warlord Rabih az-Zubayr is defeated and killed.
• 24 Apr 1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer.
• 26 Apr 1900 The Hull-Ottawa fire in Canada kills seven and leaves 15,000 homeless.
• 30 Apr 1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match

Famous Birthday

• Spencer Tracy

  American actor of Broadway and film, widely acknowledged as one of Hollywood's most popular actors.

• Charles Francis Richter
• Hans Fritzsche

  German Head of Radio Broadcast of the Reich, Minister of Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels, 5/01/1933.

• Ilka Chase
• Maurice Thorez

  French politician and longtime leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1930 until his death on 11 July 1964.

• Sandor Marai

  Hungarian writer (d. 1989).

• Jan Oort

  Dutch astronomer, pioneer in radio astronomy, comet and galaxy exploration.

• Arnold Beckman

  American chemist inventor and philanthropist (d. 2004).

• Wolfgang Pauli

  Austrian-born physicist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery in 1925 of the Pauli exclusion principle, which...

• Joe Lapchick
• Hack Wilson

  American baseball player (Born 1900).

• Guy Mazeline

  French writer, who won the prix Goncourt in 1932.

• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

  Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958).

• Henry Barraud

  composer.

• Salvatore Baccaloni

  Rome, Italy -- Actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby).

• Ary Verhaar

  composer.

• Fred Raymond

  composer.

• James Sutherland

  English literature Scholar / actor (Rob Roy 1953).

• Kees Verwey

  Painter / water colors painter / cartoonist.

• Richard Arthur

  Warren Hughes English writer (Fiction as Truth).

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Famous Deaths

• Comte de Villebois-Marevil

  French / South African General, dies in battle.

• Mebel Mercer

  Popular British singer.

• Edward VII King

  assassinated.

• Heinrich Vogl composer

  dies at age 55.

• George J D Campbell British minister of Indies (1868-74

  80-85), dies at age 76.

• John Luther

  [Casey] Jones dies in Cannonball Express train wreck.

• Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand

  French mathematician (Born 1822).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Jere Mahoney - A Bird in a Gilded Cage