February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of death February 1, 1900
The temperature on February 1, 1900 was about -2.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
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