January 1900 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1900 Hawaii asks for a delegate at the U.S. Republican National Convention.
• 02 Jan 1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris.
• 03 Jan 1900 Perihelion Passage.
• 04 Jan 1900 Strikes in Belgium and Germany lead to mining riots.
• 05 Jan 1900 Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
• 06 Jan 1900 Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
• 09 Jan 1900 The first through passenger train goes from Cairo to Khartoum.
• 10 Jan 1900 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown.
• 12 Jan 1900 Freeland Colony founded in US.
• 15 Jan 1900 SCNEC soccer team forms.
• 16 Jan 1900 The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• 17 Jan 1900 Brigham H. Roberts of Utah is not seated by the U.S. House of Representatives because of his plural marriage.
• 23 Jan 1900 The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat.
• 24 Jan 1900 Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers versus British army).
• 26 Jan 1900 The Labor League Conference opens in Sydney, Australia, with plans to form a Federal Labor Party. This is spelled quotLaborquot even in Australia.
• 29 Jan 1900 The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, also known as the American League, is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis.
• 30 Jan 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky shot by several assassins.
• 31 Jan 1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion

Famous Birthday

• Omraam Mikhaël Aivanhov
• Yves Tanguy

  French surrealist painter, son of a retired navy captain.

• René Pellos
• Ralph Graves

  Cleveland, Ohio -- Actor (Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street).

• Robert Le Vigan

  French actor, who appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles.

• William Haines

  American actor and interior designer (d. 1973).

• Richard Halliburton

  American writer, adventurer, explorer and homosexual.

• Chiune Sugihara

  Japanese soldier and diplomat (d. 1986).

• Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie
• Paola Borboni

  Italian film actress whose career spanned nine decades of cinema.

• Xavier Cugat

  Spanish-American musician, a bandleader called the "Rumba King" who taught a generation to tango, mambo and cha-cha.

• Colin Clive

  British-French actor who made both Hollywood and British films from 1930, playing lead and second lead.

• Serge Poliakoff
• Antonio Aniante

  Italy Writer.

• Pierre-Octave Ferroud

  French Composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36.

• Carlo Lombardi (actor)
• Ernst Busch

  German stage actor, singer, socialist, leading interpreter of roles created by dramatist bertolt brecht; tortured by gestapo in wwii.

• Eugen Bamann

  German scientist and author, a researcher in biochemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry.

• Maurice Jaubert

  French musician, a leading film composer of the 1930s.

• George Magrill
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Famous Deaths

• Edwin George Monk composer

  dies at age 80.

• Richard D Blackmore English novelist (Lorna Doone)

  dies at age 74.

• John Ruskin English writer/critic (Dearest Mama Talbot)

  dies of influenza at age 81.

• Vittorio Bersezio [Carlo Nugelli]

  Italian playwright, dies at age 71.

• David E Hughes

  American musician (Born 1831).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Albert Campbell - If you Were Only Mine
2. Edward M. Favor - I'd Leave My Happy Home for You
3. Albert Campbell - Mandy Lee
4. Vess Ossman - The Old Folks at Home