March 1900 calendar

Events

• 02 Mar 1900 beginning) ampndash Groups of officials inspect towns around Australia in order to find a location for the new Federal capital.
• 03 Mar 1900 US Steel Corporation organizes.
• 05 Mar 1900 American Hall of Fame is founded.
• 07 Mar 1900 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in two games.
• 08 Mar 1900 Londoners celebrate as Queen Victoria makes a rare visit to the city.
• 09 Mar 1900 Women in Germany demand the right to participate in university entrance exams.
• 10 Mar 1900 Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers versus British army).
• 12 Mar 1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein.
• 13 Mar 1900 Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
• 14 Mar 1900 US currency goes on gold standard
• 15 Mar 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
• 16 Mar 1900 AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
• 17 Mar 1900 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2.
• 18 Mar 1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms.
• 24 Mar 1900 Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground ''Rapid Transit Railroad'' that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• 25 Mar 1900 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis.
• 27 Mar 1900 The arrival of a Russian naval fleet in Korea causes concern to the Imperial Japanese government.
• 28 Mar 1900 Over 1,000 tonnes of waste are removed from demolished buildings in Sydney, Australia, in areas affected by an outbreak of the bubonic plague.
• 31 Mar 1900 In France, the length of a legal workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours.

Famous Birthday

• Erich Fromm

  German-American psychoanalyst, professor, author and social philosopher.

• Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester
• Kurt Weill

  German-American composer, an important figure in German musical life during the period of the Weimar Republic.

• Léon Mazeaud

  Limoges Politician.

• Frédéric Joliot
• Ted Heath (bandleader)
• Giorgos Seferis

  Greek poet and diplomat Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971).

• Carel Willink

  Dutch artist, a neo-realist painter who studied in Berlin from 1920-1923 and began as an abstractionist influenced by the Italian futurists.

• Max Hymans

  WWII resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at age 60.

• Henri Jeanson

  Paris 13éme Writer.

• Luigi Longo

  Italian politician, the former President of the Communist Party of Italy (C.

• Edmond Beauchamp

  French film actor who appeared in 70 films between 1928 and 1979.

• Ivan Kozlovsky
• Frances Partridge
• Agostino Richelmy (writer)
• Edna Best

  Hove, England -- Actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo).

• Pierre Barbe
• [Albert] Carel

  Willink Dutch painter (magic realism).

• Giuseppe Capogrossi

  Italian painter.

• Roberto Soundy

  El Salvador -- Trap shooter (1968 Olympics).

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Famous Deaths

• Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann composer

  dies at age 94.

• Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations

  dies at age 80.

• Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet] South African General

  dies at age 69.

• Gottlieb Daimler

  German engineer,industrial designer and industrialist.

• John Bingham

  American lawyer judge and politician 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1900).

• Charles-Louis Hanon

  French pianist and composer (d. 1900).

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Top #3 songs in the USA

1. Jere Mahoney - When You Were Sweet Sixteen
2. George J. Gaskin - When Cloe Sings a Song
3. Harry Macdonough - Mandy Lee