January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of death October 8, 1900
The temperature on October 8, 1900 was about 11.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
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