Jump to content

October 1900

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<< October 1900 >>
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
01 02 03 04 05 06
07 08 09 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31  
October 1, 1900: 25-year old Winston Churchill elected to House of Commons

The following events occurred in October 1900:

October 1, 1900 (Monday)

[edit]

October 2, 1900 (Tuesday)

[edit]

October 3, 1900 (Wednesday)

[edit]

October 4, 1900 (Thursday)

[edit]
  • U.S. Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan denounced the administration of U.S. President William McKinley for permitting slavery to exist in American territory. "We fought then", said Bryan of the American Civil War, "for the adoption of a constitutional amendment that provided that no man could own a slave, and yet before the Philippine war is ended we have the Sulu treaty, which recognizes slavery."[10]
  • Born: Trinidad de Leon-Roxas, Filipino socialite, First Lady of the Philippines 1946-1948 as the wife of Manuel Roxas; in San Miguel, Bulacan (d. 1995)
  • Died: Charles Alexander Mentry, founder in 1876 of the town of Mentryville, California, was stung by an insect and died at the age of 54. Without him, the Los Angeles County town would steadily decline in population and be abandoned by the 1930s, with the exception of Mentry's house.[11]

October 5, 1900 (Friday)

[edit]

October 6, 1900 (Saturday)

[edit]

October 7, 1900 (Sunday)

[edit]
  • Max Planck hosted fellow physicist Heinrich Rubens for tea, and considered news that Rubens' experiments had contradicted Planck's theories. Later that evening, Planck reviewed his calculations and refined them to what would be announced, on October 19, as Planck's law or the radiation distribution function.[17]
  • Born: Heinrich Himmler, German party official, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) 1929 to 1945; in Munich (d. 1945, committed suicide following arrest)

October 8, 1900 (Monday)

[edit]

October 9, 1900 (Tuesday)

[edit]
  • The Paris Aero Club sponsored the Gran Prix of ballooning, with six balloons lifting off at 5:20 pm from Vincennes, France to fly east toward Russia. Count Henri de la Vaulx and Count de Castillen de Saint-Victor, flying the Centaure, arrived in the Ukrainian city of Korostyshiv, 3334 hours later, after flying 1,153 miles (1,856 km) to win the race.[19]
  • The entire city of Paris was awarded France's Legion of Honour, joining such towns as Chalon-sur-Saône, Tournus and St. Jean de Losne.[20]
  • An earthquake of 8.3 magnitude occurred off the coast of Alaska, but caused no significant damage.[21]

October 10, 1900 (Wednesday)

[edit]

October 11, 1900 (Thursday)

[edit]

October 12, 1900 (Friday)

[edit]

October 13, 1900 (Saturday)

[edit]

October 14, 1900 (Sunday)

[edit]

October 15, 1900 (Monday)

[edit]

October 16, 1900 (Tuesday)

[edit]

October 17, 1900 (Wednesday)

[edit]

October 18, 1900 (Thursday)

[edit]

October 19, 1900 (Friday)

[edit]

October 20, 1900 (Saturday)

[edit]

October 21, 1900 (Sunday)

[edit]

October 22, 1900 (Monday)

[edit]

October 23, 1900 (Tuesday)

[edit]
  • Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., was revealed to have been the perpetrator of the largest bank robbery, up to that time, in American history. Alvord, a teller at the First National Bank of New York (now part of Citibank) had embezzled more than $700,000 from the bank over a period of six years. By contrast, Butch Cassidy's largest bank robbery, committed the month before, netted less than $33,000. Alvord, one of the great white collar criminals of his day, was arrested six days later in Boston.[43] He served eight years in Sing Sing prison and died on September 10, 1912, in Stockport, New York.[44]

October 24, 1900 (Wednesday)

[edit]

October 25, 1900 (Thursday)

[edit]

October 26, 1900 (Friday)

[edit]

October 27, 1900 (Saturday)

[edit]
  • Jimmy Governor, Australian mass murderer, was captured after a three-month manhunt. His brother and partner in crime, Joe Governor, was killed while trying to elude capture on October 31. Jimmy, who had murdered nine people (including four children), was hanged in 1901.[51]
  • The vaudeville team of Joe and Myra Keaton was appearing at a matinee show at the Wonderland Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, when they decided to bring their five-year-old son on stage. Joseph Frank Keaton, nicknamed "Buster", was instructed to simply sit at the side and stare at this parents, and the theater manager, William Dockstader, told the parents that the child had been a distraction to the act. Days later, however, Dockstader allowed the child to appear in the Keaton family show because there would be children in the audience. This time, Joe made Buster Keaton part of continuing comedy sketches about a mischievous child and an exasperated father, and the child began a career of making theater (and, later, film) audiences laugh.[52]

October 28, 1900 (Sunday)

[edit]

October 29, 1900 (Monday)

[edit]
  • An explosion at the Tarrant & Company pharmaceutical warehouse killed 38 people and injured more than 200, and destroyed two city blocks in New York City. At about 12:45 pm, thirty minutes after a fire began on the upper floors, a blast leveled the seven-story building at 275 Washington Street, and destroyed eight surrounding stores.[55]

October 30, 1900 (Tuesday)

[edit]

October 31, 1900 (Wednesday)

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Ball, Stuart (2003). Winston Churchill. NYU Press. pp. 21–22.
  2. ^ The Statistician and Economist (1901–1902) (L.P. McCarty, 1902), p. 381
  3. ^ "Helen Keller At Radcliffe"
  4. ^ Green, Venus (2001). Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. Duke University Press. p. 276.
  5. ^ The City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701–1922. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1922. pp. 819–820.
  6. ^ Clayton Edwards, A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines: A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure, from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920), pp. 278–281
  7. ^ Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination (Verso, 2005) pp. 224
  8. ^ Jerrold Northrop Moore, Edward Elgar: A Creative Life (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 330–331
  9. ^ "The First Season at Kitty Hawk", by Tom D. Crouch, American Heritage (April 1988)
  10. ^ Salman, Michael (2001). The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines. University of California Press. pp. 46–47.
  11. ^ Worden, Leon (July 1997). "The Story of Mentryville: California's Pioneer Oil Town". The Friends of Mentryville. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  12. ^ R. Floyd Clarke, "A Permanent Tribunal of International Arbitration: Its Necessity and Value", The American Journal of International Law (April 1907) pp. 382–88
  13. ^ Provine, William B. (2001). The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics. University of Chicago Press. pp. 58–59.
  14. ^ "End of a Losing Season". Chicago Tribune. October 7, 1900. p. 19.
  15. ^ http://www.zetapsichapter.org/zeta_psi_website_003.htm[dead link]
  16. ^ Bergère, Marie-Claire (2000). Sun Yat-sen. Translated by Lloyd, Janet. Stanford University Press. pp. 93–95.
  17. ^ Steward, Edward G. (2008). Quantum Mechanics: Its Early Development and the Road to Entanglement. Imperial College Press. pp. 36–42.
  18. ^ Richard Gilson, The Cook Islands, 1820–1950 (Victoria University Press) pp. 103–104
  19. ^ "From France to Russia By Balloon". American Monthly Review of Reviews. May 1901. pp. 609–611.
  20. ^ "Collective Awards". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. 26 November 2007. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  21. ^ "Historic Earthquakes". U.S. Geological Survey. 1 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  22. ^ Howard, Fred (1998). Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Courier Dover Publications. p. 50.
  23. ^ "Troubled Times at the Beginning of the Century (6): The Treaty of 1901". China in 20th Century. English Channel. China Central Television. 10 May 2002. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  24. ^ "Names for Hall of Fame", New York Times, October 13, 1900, p. 7
  25. ^ Robert McKenna, The Dictionary of Nautical Literacy (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003), p. 163
  26. ^ Ossad, Stephen L. (September 2003). "The Frustrations of Leonard Wood". ARMY Magazine.
  27. ^ Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson, Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005), pp. 6–7
  28. ^ dos Santos Silva, Isabel (1999). Cancer Epidemiology: Principles and Methods. IARC. p. 386.
  29. ^ Emerson, Everett H. (2000). Mark Twain: A Literary Life. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 255.
  30. ^ Bunch, Bryan H. (2004). The History of Science and Technology: A Browser's Guide to the Great Discoveries, Inventions, and the People who Made Them, from the Dawn of Time to Today. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 450.
  31. ^ "A Brief History of the Boston Symphony Orchestra". bso.org. Boston Symphony Orchestra. 2009. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  32. ^ "Lieutenant T. L. Fuller, Texas Rangers, Texas". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  33. ^ Robins, Elizabeth (25 February 1999). Gates, Joanne E. (ed.). "Elizabeth Robins at Cape Nome". Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  34. ^ "Yangtze Agreement", Historical Dictionary of the British Empire (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996), pp. 1176
  35. ^ Stephen L. Harp, Marketing Michelin: Advertising & Cultural Identity in Twentieth-century France (JHU Press, 2001), p. 20
  36. ^ a b c "Diary For October", The Review of Reviews, November 15, 1900, p. 430
  37. ^ Stanley Shaw, William of Germany (BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2007), pp166–167
  38. ^ Alan Axelrod, Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions and How They Were Made (Sterling Publishing Company, 2006), pp. 100–101
  39. ^ Edward Uhler Condon and Halis Odabasi, Atomic Structure (CUP Archive, 1980), p. 16
  40. ^ Pat Langley, et al., Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes (MIT Press, 1987), p. 47
  41. ^ Edward S. Mihalkanin, American statesmen: Secretaries of State From John Jay to Colin Powell (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004), p. 470
  42. ^ Edward S. Mihalkanin, American statesmen: Secretaries of State From John Jay to Colin Powell (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004), p. 484
  43. ^ "Note Teller Steals $700,000 From Bank", New York Times, October 24, 1900, p1
  44. ^ "Cornelius Lansing Alvord, Jr., Is Dead", The Syracuse Herald, September 11, 1912, p. 11
  45. ^ W. D. Rubinstein, Twentieth-Century Britain: A Political History (Macmillan, 2003), pp. 7–9
  46. ^ Harold E. Raugh, "Buller, Redvers", The Victorians at War, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History (ABC-CLIO, 2004), p. 64
  47. ^ LIM Tai Wei. "Korea-Japan Relations: The Dokdo Issue From the Korean Perspective" (PDF).
  48. ^ Grant, Neil (1993). Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict. New York City, New York: Reed International Books Ltd. & SMITHMARK Publishers Inc. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0-8317-1371-2.
  49. ^ The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti | Nigerian feminist and political leader". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  50. ^ Elleman, Bruce A. (2001). Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989. Routledge. p. 135.
  51. ^ Creswell, Toby; Trenoweth, Samantha (2006). 1001 Australians You Should Know. Pluto Press Australia. p. 199.
  52. ^ Meade, Marion (2014). Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. Open Road Media.
  53. ^ Moore, William Harrison (1902). The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. G. Partridge & Co. pp. 368–373.
  54. ^ "M 7.7 - offshore Miranda, Venezuela". earthquake.usgs.gov. USGS. Retrieved 12 June 2021. [dead link]
  55. ^ "Death and Havoc Follow Explosion". The New York Times. October 30, 1900. p. 1.
  56. ^ "Population is 76,296,220", New York Times, October 31, 1900, p. 3
  57. ^ Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, The Courts, the Church and the Constitution: Aspects of the Disruption of 1843 (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), p. 98