September 1900 calendar

Events

• 02 Sep 1900 Telegraph use between Germany and US begins
• 03 Sep 1900 British annex Natal (South Africa).
• 05 Sep 1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad.
• 06 Sep 1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
• 08 Sep 1900 Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
• 10 Sep 1900 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
• 11 Sep 1900 President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
• 17 Sep 1900 Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed
• 25 Sep 1900 In the British general election, the recently formed Labour Party gains two seats. Winston Churchill is also elected to Parliament for the first time.
• 27 Sep 1900 Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St, New York City

Famous Birthday

• Ruhollah Khomeini

  Iranian Islamic religious leader and politician (d. 1989).

• Julien Green

  French-born American novelist (d. 1998).

• Raymond Isidore

  French writer and mystic.

• James Hilton

  British-American novelist whose first novel, "Catherine Herself," was published in 1921 when he was only 20 years old.

• Mario Altéry
• Ricardo Cortez

  Actor / director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87.

• Robert Florey
• André Dhôtel

  French author, poet, playwright, and literary critic, best-known for his novel, "Le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais" ("The Country That Never...

• Taylor Caldwell

  American best-selling writer who began to write and illustrate from age 10.

• Boris Yefimov
• Urho Kekkonen

  Finnish journalist lawyer and politician 8th President of Finland (d. 1986).

• Marc Bernard

  French author, novelist, playwright, essayist.

• Germaine Degueldre

  Belgian supercentenarian, died 24 May 2012 at age 111.

• Gladys George
• Larry Kent

  California, United States -- Director (High Stakes).

• Maurice Dobb

  British economist (d. 1976).

• Eric Harding Thiman

  Composer.

• Sidney Marion

  Massachusetts, United States -- Entertainer.

• Solomon Pimsleur

  Composer.

• Emerson Treacy

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Actor (California Straight Ahead).

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Famous Deaths

• William Marsh Rice

  American philanthropist and university founder (Born 1816).

• Samuel Fenton Cary

  congressman, prohibitionist (Born 1814).

Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Dan Quinn - San Francisco Sadie
2. American Quartet (Earliest) - A Night Trip to Buffalo
3. Harry Macdonough & Grace Spencer - When We are Married
4. Vess Ossman - A Coon Band Contest