February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of death February 23, 1900
The temperature on February 23, 1900 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
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