July 1900 calendar

Events

• 02 Jul 1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin first airship LZ-1, flies.
• 05 Jul 1900 Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
• 07 Jul 1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
• 09 Jul 1900 Australia accepts its constitution
• 11 Jul 1900 Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns
• 12 Jul 1900 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Basin, Wyoming (state record).
• 14 Jul 1900 Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
• 15 Jul 1900 President Steyn / General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
• 17 Jul 1900 New York Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Brooklyn Superbas
• 19 Jul 1900 The first line of the Paris Métro is opened.
• 21 Jul 1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to the Greek-Melkite rite.
• 23 Jul 1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London.
• 24 Jul 1900 Race riot in New Orleans, two white policemen killed.
• 25 Jul 1900 The Robert Charles Riots break out in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 28 Jul 1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
• 31 Jul 1900 Boer Generals Prinsloo and Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin

Famous Birthday

• Zelda Fitzgerald

  American wife of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Providence (Rhode Island)
• Robert Desnos

  French surrealist poet and resistance fighter, writing poems for the movement, gay.

• Nathalie Sarraute

  Russian-born French writer (Born 1900).

• Hermann Esser

  German politician, a radical socialist and Nazi Chief of Party Propaganda.

• Evelyn Laye

  English theatre and musical film actress, who was active on the London light opera stage.

• Marcel Dalio

  French actor (d. 1983).

• George Antheil

  American composer who shocked audiences in the 1920s with his use of jazz rhythms and mechanical devices in symphonic music.

• Frederica Sagor
• Alessandro Blasetti

  Italian film director and critic, one of the two best directors of the Fascist period of Italian cinema from 1935-1945, which was, for the...

• Charles Vidor

  Budapest, Hungary -- Direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl).

• Eyvind Johnson

  Swedish author and academic Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976).

• Joseph Schrank
• Herbert A Lohlein
• Helen Ferguson
• Kurt Seligmann
• Marcel Duhamel

  French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint.

• JH Scheps

  Dutch 2nd-Member of parliament (social democratic).

• Erich Katz

  Composer.

• Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev

  Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky).

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Famous Deaths

• Ferdinand Hamet

  Dutch Missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59.

• Umberto I

  Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci.

• King Umberto

  I of Italy (Born 1844).

• Alfred

  British royalty, the grandson of Queen Victoria, the oldest son of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Grand Duchess...

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