April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Day of death December 5, 1900
The temperature on December 5, 1900 was about 9.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
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