1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)

1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever

1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal

1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger

1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid

1907 Taxis first began running in NYC

1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is first female airplane passenger (Belgium)

1909 First NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)

1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of the Union of South Africa

1910 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC

1912 US marines land on Cuba

1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified

1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London fortelling the future

1916 Battle of Skagerrak British-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)

1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6

1916 During WWI British & German fleets fight Battle of Jutland

1917 1First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)

1918 General Monash succeeds Birdwood as GOC Australian Corps

1918 HMS Fairy, Built by Fairfields at Govan, Glasgow this 'C' Class destroyer of about 400 tons rammed the German submarine UC75 off the Yorkshire coast. The Uboat had previously been rammed by the steamer Blaydonian, damaging the casing. The Uboat then surfaced and at first the Commanding Officer of Fairy thought the submarine must be Royal Navy but the normal challenge was not replied to. Fairy then rammed the uboat at the stern because if the boat was British the crew would have time to get out. It then became quite quite clear the boat was German so HMS Fairy rammed her hard just forward of the conning tower. Two of the men from the submarine jumped on to the forecastle of the destroyer and the other twelve crew were rescued from the water. The submarine sank but the bows of the destroyer were seriously damaged as the submarine was a much bigger vessel than HMS Fairy and she, herself, later sank.

1919 First wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston TX)

1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes first crossing of Atlantic

1919 NC-4's transatlantic flight ends at Plymouth, England

1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats

1926 Portuguese President Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup

1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia

1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)

1928 First aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland

1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens

1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season

1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium

1930 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth

1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan

1937 German battleships shell Almeria Spain

1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's

1940 General-Major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken

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