What Happened In August 1900 - Historical Events 1900 August

Historical Events for August, 1900

3rd » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
14th » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
16th » The Battle of Elands River (1900) e.g 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, Rhode

1st » Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
2nd » Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (d. 1973)
3rd » Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d. 1945)
3rd » John T. Scopes, American educator (d. 1970)
4th » Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
6th » Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003)
10th » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1994)
11th » Philip Phillips (archaeologist) known as Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994)
15th » Estelle Brody, American actress (d. 1995)
19th » Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress (d. 1974)
19th » Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962)
19th » Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976)
23rd » Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 1991)
23rd » Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978)
25th » Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
26th » Hellmuth Walter, German engineer (d. 1980)
31st » Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini (d. 1943)

4th » Isaac Levitan, Russian architect and painter (b. 1860)
7th » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1826)
12th » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
16th » José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
19th » Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)
23rd » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
25th » Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
28th » Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)