Page 4: Historical Events In 1900

Mar 07   Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees.   

Mar 07   Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees   

Mar 07   Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter   

Mar 07   Poplar Grove, South Africa Canadians engage Boers in artillery fight at Poplar Grove.   

Mar 08   NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)   

Mar 09   Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)   

Mar 10   Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)   

Mar 10   Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94   

Mar 10   Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club).   

Mar 11   Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies   

Mar 12   David Croll, QC senator   

Mar 12   President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein.   

Mar 12   President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein.   

Mar 13   British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State   

Mar 13   British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state.   

Mar 13   In this year, James William Tyrrell 1863-1945 starts 2782 km survey trek from Great Slave Lake to Chesterfield Inlet   

Mar 14   Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics.   

Mar 14   US currency goes on gold standard   

Mar 15   Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer.   

Mar 16   AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in   

Mar 16   Discovery of the ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete   

Mar 16   Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, embarks troops for South Africa; the regiment consists of 537 mounted troops recruited in Manitoba, BC and the NWT.   

Mar 16   Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus   

Mar 17   Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing).   

Mar 17   Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2.   

Mar 18   Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms.   

Mar 18   Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32   

Mar 19   Roy Roberts, Tampa Fla, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)   

Mar 21   Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal).   

Mar 23   Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society).   

Mar 24   June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet.   

Mar 24   New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn   

Mar 25   US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis.   

Mar 25   US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis   

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Jan 01   Hubert van doorne: Dutch auto manufacturer (daf)   

Jan 01   William haines: Staunton va, actor (fast life, little annie rooney)   

Jan 01   Xavier cugat: Barcelona spain, bandleader (married abbe lane, charo)   

Jan 01   Chiune sugihara: Japanese diplomat    

Jan 03   Dorothy arnzer: Director   

Jan 03   Maurice jaubert: Composer   

Jan 04   James bond: American ornithologist   

Jan 05   Dennis gabor: Hung/brit physicist (holography-nobel 1971) [or jun 5]   

Jan 03   Edwin george monk: Composer,    

Jan 08   Billy bates: Cricketer (656 runs & 50 wkts in 15 tests for eng),   

Jan 20   John ruskin: English writer (dearest mama talbot),    

Jan 22   David e. hughes: American musician (b. 1831)   

Jan 30   Vittorio bersezio: [carlo nugelli], italian playwright,   

Feb 03   Ottokar eugen novacek: Composer,    

Feb 16   George labram: Us mine engineer in south africa,   

Feb 18   Clinton l. merriam: American politician (b. 1824)