February 1900 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1900 Western Australia announced its refusal to join the Australian Federation unless it is given five more years of fiscal freedom.
• 02 Feb 1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris.
• 03 Feb 1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Baltimore.
• 05 Feb 1900 The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
• 06 Feb 1900 Battle at Vaalkrans, South Africa (Boers versus British army).
• 07 Feb 1900 Labour Party forms in England.
• 09 Feb 1900 Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup.
• 10 Feb 1900 Peter Ostlund skates world record 500 metre (45.2 seconds).
• 14 Feb 1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock".
• 15 Feb 1900 General French relieves Kimberley / Cecil Rhodes
• 16 Feb 1900 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, three games to 1.
• 17 Feb 1900 Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg: British troops defeat the Boers.
• 18 Feb 1900 Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam.
• 19 Feb 1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal.
• 22 Feb 1900 Hawaii became a US territory.
• 27 Feb 1900 British Labour Party forms
• 28 Feb 1900 The Second Boer War: The 118-day ''Siege of Ladysmith'' is lifted.

Famous Birthday

• Jacques Prévert

  French poet and screenwriter.

• Luis Buñuel

  Spanish filmmaker who began his cinema studies in Paris in 1925; within a year he was an assistant director.

• Madeleine Renaud

  French actress, comedienne and theater director, a leading actress of French stage and screen who married Jean-Louis Barrault.

• Gianna Pederzini

  Italian actress and mezzo soprano opera singer.

• Hans-Georg Gadamer

  German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method on hermeneutics.

• Line Noro
• Adlai Stevenson

  American politician and statesman.

• Adlai Stevenson

  American politician and statesman.

• Lys Gauty
• Jean Negulesco

  Craiova, Romania -- Director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica).

• Carroll Righter

  American professional astrologer and syndicated columnist in daily papers read in 30 million homes.

• Jean Nohain

  French television presenter and songwriter, known as "Jaboune.

• A Spencer Paterson
• John Philip Stewart
• George Oppenheimer

  American playwright, columnist drama critic and co-founder of Viking Press.

• Robert Boothby

  British politician, a Tory peer with bisexual proclivities.

• Gitta Alpar
• Giorgios Seferis Greece

  poet (Nobel Prize 1963).

• Antonio Veretti

  composer.

• Graham Spry

  St. Thomas, Ontario -- Canadian radio pioneer.

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Famous Deaths

• Ottokar Eugen Novacek composer

  dies at age 33.

• George Labram US mine engineer in South Africa

  dies in battle.

• William Butterfield architect of the Gothic revival

  dies.

• Clinton L Merriam

  American politician (Born 1824).

• Marthinus Nikolaas Ras

  South African Gunmaker (Born 1853).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Byron G. Harlan & A.D. Madeira - In the Shadow of the Pines
2. Arthur Collins - Mandy Lee
3. Dan Quinn - Nothing's Too Good for the Irish
4. Jere Mahoney - When You Were Sweet Sixteen