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- U.S. population: 76,212,168Demographia: US Population From 1900
- Geographic center of the U.S. by population: 6 miles SE of Columbus, Indianacensus.gov: Population and Geographic Centers (pdf)
- U.S. presidential election year
- Olympic year
- Was not a leap year
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This page provides a time line of events that occurred in the year 1900 (MCM) of the Gregorian calendar. January 1, 1900, occurred on a Monday. December 31, 1900, also occurred on a Monday. According to the Chinese Calendar, January 31, 1900, was the first day of the Year of the Rat.
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February 1900
- February 1: Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie camera for $1.
- February 2: Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis form the American League.
- February 5: Britain and the United States sign a treaty to build a canal through Nicaragua.
- February 7: The British Labour Party is formed.
- February 27: The siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War ends.
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March 1900
- March 14: The Gold Standard Act is passed, placing the United States on the gold standard.
- March 18: Engineer John Luther Jones, immortalized in the song Casey Jones, killed in a train crash.
- March 24: Ground breaking for "Rapid Transit Railroad" to link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- March 31: Saturday Evening Post carries the first national ad for an automobile.
- March 31: National Assembly in France limits the workday for women and children to 11 hours.
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April 1900
- April 12: Puerto Rico becomes a United States territory when the Foraker Act is passed.
- April 14: World Exhibition opens in Paris.
- April 17: American Samoa created when tribal chiefs on the Tutuila and Aunu'u Islands ceded to the U.S..
- April 19: Philadelphia Phillies beat Boston Beaneaters 19-17 in the first Major League Baseball game of the century.
- April 26: 3,000 homes destroyed in Ottawa in the Ottawa-Hull Lumber Fire.
- April 30: Territorial government established for Hawaii with the Organic Act.
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September 1900
- September 8: America's deadliest Natural Disaster happens as a hurricane hits Galveston, Texas and kills upwards to 12,000 people.
November 1900
- November 3: The first U.S. automobile show is held in New York City.
- November 6: William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan to be re-elected president of the U.S..
- November 6: Theodore Roosevelt elected 25th vice-president of the United States.
- November 8: Sister Carrie published by Theodore Dreiser.
- November 15: J.P. Morgan hosts an extravagant wedding for his daughter in New York City.
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