August 1900 calendar

Events

• 03 Aug 1900 The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
• 07 Aug 1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
• 10 Aug 1900 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
• 14 Aug 1900 1st electric tram in the Netherlands (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
• 23 Aug 1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston).
• 27 Aug 1900 Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha
• 30 Aug 1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
• 31 Aug 1900 British troops over run Johannesburg

Famous Birthday

• Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
• René Crevel

  French writer, a dada playwright, openly gay.

• Hans Adolf Krebs

  German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981).

• L J Jensen
• Ernie Pyle

  American writer, journalist and syndicated columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 and was killed in Okinawa during World War II.

• Leonardo Conti

  Swiss-German Third Reich Health Leader, a specialist in the "race questions.

• Radamie Herman Airstrop
• James Pierce
• Charles Paddock
• Ernst Krenek

  Austrian / US Composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies at 91.

• Buell Kazee
• Helen Morgan

  American singer and actress (Born 1900).

• Robert Siodmak
• Mary Bruce

  Dance Teacher.

• Elizabeth Bergner

  Vienna, Austria -- Actress (Catherine the Great).

• Josephine Holt Bay

  1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange.

• Quincy Howe

  Boston, Massachusetts -- Newscaster (CBS Weekend News).

• Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili

  Composer.

• Taylor Caldwell

  Novelist.

• Arnoldus J N M Struycken

  Dutch lawyer.

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Famous Deaths

• James E Keeler

  US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42.

• Friedrich Nietschze

  Philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55.

• James Augustine Healy black Roman Catholic bishop

  dies at age 80.

• Eca de Queiroz

  Portuguese writer (Born 1845).

• Wilhelm Liebknecht

  German journalist and politician (d. 1900).

• Jean-Baptiste Accolay

  Belgian violinist composer and conductor (d. 1900).

• Henry Sidgwick

  English economist and philosopher (d. 1900).

• Isaac Levitan

  Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900).

• Kuroda Kiyotaka

  Japanese general and politician 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900).

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Top #2 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Collins - Ma Tiger Lily
2. Dan Quinn - San Francisco Sadie