What Happened In January 1900 - Historical Events 1900 January

Historical Events for January, 1900

2nd » American Statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
5th » Ireland named Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
6th » Second Boer War: Having already Siege of Ladysmith sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British defenders.
16th » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the American Samoa named Samoan islands.
23rd » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and United Kingdom called British forces ends in a British defeat.
24th » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
29th » The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
31st » Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassination known as assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.

1st » Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
1st » Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
2nd » William Haines, American actor and interior designer (d. 1973)
3rd » Donald J. Russell, American businessman (d. 1985)
4th » James Bond (ornithologist) called James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
5th » Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
6th » Kathryn Hulme, American author (d. 1981)
6th » Maria of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
7th » John Brownlee (baritone) called John Brownlee, Australian opera singer (d. 1969)
7th » Robert Le Vigan, French actor (d. 1972)
8th » Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
9th » Richard Halliburton, American adventurer and author (d. 1939)
15th » William Heinesen, Faroese poet and author (d. 1991)
16th » Edith Frank, German mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
20th » Colin Clive, English actor (d. 1937)
22nd » Ernst Busch (actor) named Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (d. 1980)
23rd » William Ifor Jones, Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)
24th » Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
25th » István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970)
25th » Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author (d. 1986)
26th » Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
27th » Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
28th » Alice Neel, American painter (d. 1984)

20th » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
22nd » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)