March 1900

The following events occurred in March 1900:

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March 24, 1900: The last passenger pigeon in the wild is killed
March 7, 1900: The Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to install wireless radio
March 1, 1900: Samoa becomes a colony of Germany
March 27, 1900: Standard kite patented by William Eddy

Thursday, March 1, 1900

  • The German flag was formally hoisted at Apia, the capital of Samoa, and Wilhelm Solf became the colony's first governor. Chief Mata'afa, who had fought against the Germans, and Chief Tamasese, who had been the puppet ruler during German occupation, reconciled.[1] Mata'afa was named as the paramount chief of the western Samoa colony, although Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm was designated as the Paramount King.[2]
  • The United Kingdom and its subjects celebrated across the world when the news arrived of the relief of the South African fortress Ladysmith. "London went literally mad with joy, and throughout England the scenes witnessed have no parallel in the memories of this generation."[3]

Friday, March 2, 1900

Saturday, March 3, 1900

Sunday, March 4, 1900

  • The first railway service in Nigeria was inaugurated with the opening of a line between Lagos and Ibadan. Built by the British colonial government, the railroad track extended for 122+12 miles and cost 1,000,000 pounds.[10]
  • Born: Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and film director, one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted in the 1950s, in Philadelphia (died 1971)

Monday, March 5, 1900

Tuesday, March 6, 1900

Wednesday, March 7, 1900

Thursday, March 8, 1900

Friday, March 9, 1900

Saturday, March 10, 1900

Sunday, March 11, 1900

  • Captain Umberto Cagni of Italy, with ten men and 102 dogs, set off from the base camp at Franz Josef Land, established by the Arctic expedition of the Duke of Abruzzi. Cagni's men did not reach the North Pole, but planted the Italian flag at 86–34 N on April 25, closer than anyone had before, before turning back.[27]
  • Religious broadcasting was launched in Elkhart, Indiana, as the Reverend E.H. Gwynne of the First Presbyterian Church, began preaching his sermons by telephone technology. A transmitter, designed by inventors from the Home Telephone Company for the benefit of a crippled parishioner, was placed on the pulpit, "and every word was as distinctly heard as though the listeners were present in the church", a reporter noted.[28]
  • At the Mount Olivet Baptist Church at 53rd Street near Broadway in New York City, Pastor C.T. Walker baptized 184 African Americans at the end of revival services.[29] Nicknamed "the Colored John the Baptist", Walker was originally from Augusta, Georgia, where a school bears his name.[30]

Monday, March 12, 1900

Steyn
The Orange Free State flag

Tuesday, March 13, 1900

Wednesday, March 14, 1900

Mendel
de Vries
  • At 1:14 in the afternoon at the White House, U.S. President William McKinley signed the Gold Standard Act into law using a gold pen presented to him by U.S. Representative Jesse Overstreet of Indiana, who had sponsored the legislation.[37]
  • Botanist Hugo de Vries submitted a paper to the German journal Comptes Rendus, outlining a rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity. Both de Vries and German botanist Carl Correns had been working independently of each other in 1900 and found Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper on genetics. Correns' paper was completed on April 22. Wrote De Vries, "I draw the conclusion that the law of segregation of hybrids as discovered by Mendel for peas finds very general application in the plant kingdom ... This memoir, very beautiful for its time, has been misunderstood and forgotten."[38]

Thursday, March 15, 1900

Friday, March 16, 1900

Saturday, March 17, 1900

Leary
Sheldon
  • Richard P. Leary, the American Governor of Guam, issued a proclamation abolishing slavery on the island.[46]
  • American forces, led by Major Henry Hale of the 44th Infantry Battalion, arrived at Tagbilaran and took control of Bohol in the Philippines.[47] The Boholanos resisted American occupation for years thereafter.[48]
  • The Topeka Daily Capital published its final "Sheldon Edition", bringing to a close an experiment that had started on March 13. The publisher of the Capital had challenged author Charles Sheldon to try editing a daily newspaper as Jesus might. Sheldon, the author of In His Steps (and the originator of the question "What would Jesus do?"), edited the paper for five days, emphasizing "good news" stories. During the experiment, the circulation of the Capital increased from about 12,000 to more than 350,000 (with the help of presses in Chicago and New York City). Rather than closing with a Sunday paper, Sheldon published a "Saturday Evening Edition" following the regular morning paper, with instructions that even the news carriers were "to deliver their papers in time to reach home themselves before Sunday", and there was "no news of the world". Sheldon wrote, "The human race can be just as happy and useful and powerful if it does not know every twenty-four hours the news of the wars and the sports and the society events of the world."[49]
  • Born: Alfred Newman, American composer, recipient of nine Academy Awards in a career of creating musical scores for films, in New Haven, Connecticut (died 1970)

Sunday, March 18, 1900

  • Comedian W. C. Fields, recently signed by the William Morris Agency, broke into big time show business when he opened for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in San Francisco. Fields, age 20, was billed as "The Tramp Juggler", and was touring Europe by the end of the year.[50]
  • Maud S., a race horse beloved by millions of Americans and known as "The Race Track Queen", died a week short of turning 26 years old. Owned by wealthy philanthropist Robert E. Bonner, whom she outlived by almost a year, she had set a record on October 20, 1891, for running a mile in two minutes, 8.75 seconds.[11]

Monday, March 19, 1900

  • Harry Lauder, celebrated as Scotland's greatest entertainer, made his professional debut at Gatti's Music Hall in London. A former coal miner who entertained his co-workers in the mines, Lauder was encouraged to try out at local talent competition, where he was discovered and signed to a contract. At one time, Lauder was the highest-paid entertainer in the world.[51]
  • The city of Glendora, Mississippi, was founded.
  • Born: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient in 1935 of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in Paris (died 1958)

Tuesday, March 20, 1900

Secretary Hay

Wednesday, March 21, 1900

  • George C. Hale, Chief of the Kansas City Fire Department and inventor of the Hale tower and the automatic harness, demonstrated the first heat sensitive automatic fire alarm system: "When the temperature goes above the maximum fixed for the building, an electric circuit is opened that puts into operation a phonograph which talks into a telephone, telling Fire Headquarters that there is a fire at whatever address the alarm is located."[55]

Thursday, March 22, 1900

  • Anne Rainsford French was awarded a Steam Engineer's License (Locomobile Class), issued by the City of Washington, D.C., making her one of the first, if not the first, women to receive a driver's license. However, Mrs. John Howell Phillips received a license, in Chicago, in late 1899.[56]
  • Justice of the Peace John W. Saunders and Deputy Sheriff Joseph Welton, both of the Greensville County, Virginia Sheriff's Office, were shot and killed when they entered a cabin near Skippers, Virginia to arrest a suspect in a series of burglaries. The county sheriff subsequently allowed the shooter and another suspect to be lynched.[57][58]

Friday, March 23, 1900

Dr. Landsteiner in 1930
  • Dr. Karl Landsteiner's first report on his discovery of a process for classification of the four blood groups under the ABO blood group system (as A, B, AB and O), "Zur Kenntnis der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe" ("Regarding on the knowledge of the antifermentative, lytic and agglutinating effects of the blood serum and the lymph") was published in the Austrian medical journal Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten.[59] In 1930, Landsteiner would win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to the discovery that made safe blood transfusions possible.
  • At 11:00 in the morning, Arthur Evans began excavation of the site of the Minoan temple at Knossos, Crete.[60]
  • Born: Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher, in Frankfurt (died 1980)

Saturday, March 24, 1900

  • Press Clay Southworth, 14, shot the last passenger pigeon in the wild, near his farm in Sargents, Ohio.[61] The species became extinct when the last living passenger pigeon died on September 1, 1914, in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • New York Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck broke ground for the underground "rapid transit tunnel" that would become the first part of the New York City Subway, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn. Using a silver spade, Van Wyck started in front of City Hall. "Tunnel day, for as such it will be known", wrote The New York Times, "was a greater day to the people, for it marked a beginning of a system of tunnels in future years and for future generations ..."[62]
  • The first workplace smoking ban was issued by the Willis L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, the forerunner of the National Weather Service, for all of its offices.[63] The Director's Instruction No. 51 declared that "The smoking of cigarettes in the offices of the Weather Bureau is hereby prohibited. Officials in charge of stations will rigidly enforce this order, and will also include in their semiannual confidential reports information as to those of their assistants who smoke cigarettes outside of office hours."[64]
  • The Puerto Rican appropriation bill of $2,095,455.88 was signed by U.S. President William McKinley after passing the House 135–87.[65]

Sunday, March 25, 1900

Monday, March 26, 1900

Rabbi Wise

Tuesday, March 27, 1900

General Joubert
  • Queen Victoria received delegates at Windsor Castle from the British colonies in Australia to discuss the Australian Commonwealth Bill in preparation for federation and an independent state, and voiced her disagreement with the word "commonwealth". "She found the title obnoxious to her", wrote one author, "She had an ingrained dislike for the word 'Commonwealth,' which she identified with Oliver Cromwell and his Republican form of government." The Queen's suggestion was that the new nation be called the "Dominion of Australia", similar to the title of the Canadian state. The assembled delegates persuaded the Queen that the word "commonwealth" had other meanings beyond those associated with Oliver Cromwell, and she reluctantly dropped further objections, giving her full support for Australian independence.[69]
  • As British forces prepared to advance on Pretoria, South Africa's greatest general, Piet Joubert, died of peritonitis at the age of 68.[70]
  • United States Patent No. 646,375 was granted to William Abner Eddy for the "Eddy kite", the diamond shaped, two-stick kite that became the standard for kite flying. Eddy, of Bayonne, New Jersey, had applied for the patent on August 1, 1898.[71]
  • United States Secretary of War Elihu Root announced the creation of the Division of the Pacific to administer the Philippines, with sub-departments for Northern Luzon, Southern Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and Jolo.[72]
  • Assistant City Marshal William Hennecke of the Boonville, Missouri Police Department was shot and killed while trying to arrest a robbery suspect.[73]

Wednesday, March 28, 1900

  • In Calcutta, the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon addressed the British governing council and announced that nearly 5,000,000 victims of famine were now receiving relief. Curzon stated that the cost was 525 "lacs of rupees". The value of 52,500,000 rupees was equivalent to £3,500,000 at the time.[74]
  • The War of the Golden Stool was triggered in the British Gold Coast colony (modern-day Ghana) after Colonial Governor Frederick Mitchell Hodgson offended a gathering of the chiefs of the Ashanti Empire. In Kumasi, Governor Hodgson demanded the Golden Stool, the most sacred relic of the Asante nation. After summoning the chiefs, Governor Hodgson refused to sit at the chair provided and demanded "Why did you not take the opportunity of my coming to Kumasi to bring the Golden Stool and give it to me to sit upon?" War broke out, and Hodgson and his party barely escaped with their lives.[75]
  • Policeman Charles Hartsell Smelser of the Hot Springs, North Carolina Police Department was shot in the head with his own service revolver while trying to arrest three intoxicated men on a shooting rampage. Another policeman and two civilians were also shot, as was one of the suspects. Smelser would die of his injuries on April 1.[76]
  • Police Officers George W. Kirkley and J. Wafe Adams of the Birmingham Police Department in Alabama were shot and killed while trying to stop a robbery suspect.[77][78]

Thursday, March 29, 1900

Friday, March 30, 1900

  • Legislation took effect in France, reducing the workday for women and children from 12 hours to 11 hours. The law provided further that on April 1, 1902, the workday would go to 1012 hours, and to ten hours by April 1, 1904.[80]
  • Died: Father Leonardo Murialdo, 71, founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph (born 1828). He would be canonized by Pope Paul VI on May 3, 1970.[81]

Saturday, March 31, 1900

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  2. "Tutuila (U.S.)", The Atlantic Monthly, 1904, p. 213
  3. "All England is Rejoicing; Ladysmith is Now Relieved; Butler Reaches Beleaguered Town at Last", Atlanta Constitution March 2, 1900, p. 1
  4. "Nebraska Beats Kansas", Nebraska State Journal, March 3, 1900, p. 3; Media Guide (Kansas Jayhawks basketball)
  5. "One Magical Century: The Story of Illinois High School Basketball" Archived 2010-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, by Patrick C. Heston
  6. "Congressman Epes Dead", New York Times, March 3, 1900, p. 1
  7. Seibert, Jeffrey W. (2002). I Done My Duty: The Complete Story of the Assassination of President McKinley. Heritage Books. p. 41.
  8. Schneider, Russell (2005). The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 10–11.
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  15. "A Purveyor of Rarities Is Back in Business", by Alvin Klein, New York Times, June 29, 1997
  16. Virgil Anson Lewis, History and Government of West Virginia (American Book Company, 1904) pp. 266–67
  17. "The Gold Standard Act of 1900", The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1901 p. 191
  18. Annual Register of World Events, p. 7
  19. "Messages From a Vessel", New York Times, March 8, 1900, p. 1
  20. Stephan Müller, International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia: 1904–2005 (Books on Demand, 2005) p. 465
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  23. "London Gives Way to Exultation", Atlanta Constitution, March 9, 1900, p. 1 (repeated 3/9/00, Register p. 8)
  24. "Debs and Harriman Make the Ticket", Atlanta Constitution, March 10, 1900, p. 1
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  27. Fergus Fleming, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole (Grove Press, 2001), pp. 320–22
  28. "Preaching by Telephone", New York Times, March 12, 1900, p. 1
  29. "Colored Converts Baptized", New York Times, March 12, 1900, p. 12
  30. "Colored John the Baptist", Atlanta Constitution, March 12, 1900, p. 1
  31. "British Occupy Bloemfontein", New York Times, March 15, 1900, p. 1
  32. "House Ousts a Democrat", New York Times, March 13, 1900, p. 7
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  34. "Gold Standard Bill Passes the House", New York Times, March 14, 1900, p1
  35. "Bloemfontein Surrenders; Robert's Entry Triumphal", Atlanta Constitution, March 15, 1900, p1
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  37. "Gold Now the Standard". New York Times. March 15, 1900. p. 1.
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  41. "Snow, Sleet, and Hail in March", New York Times, March 16, 1900, p. 1
  42. "Oil Dividends of $20,000,000; Standard Pays Largest Dividend Known", Daily Iowa Capital, March 16, 1900, p. 1
  43. The Manual of Statistics: Stock Exchange Hand-book (Financial News Association, 1912) p. 363
  44. "Warship To Go to China", New York Times, March 17, 1900, p1
  45. "The Nashville Goes to Taku", New York Times, June 10, 1900, p. 1
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  47. Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900, p. 414
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  55. "Automatic Fire Alarm", New York Times, March 22, 1900, p. 1
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  63. "Draws Line at Cigarettes", Nebraska State Journal, March 26, 1900, p. 1; Cassandra Tate, Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "the Little White Slaver", (Oxford University Press US, 2000) pp. 31–32; p. 373.
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