5th » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
9th » Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison under mysterious circumstances.
14th » Territory of Hawaii called Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
14th » The Reichstag (German Empire) called Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
17th » Boxer Rebellion: Eight-Nation Alliance or Allied Western and Japanese forces Battle of Dagu Forts (1900) e.g capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
18th » Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
20th » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a Siege of the International Legations called 55-day siege of the Beijing Legation Quarter or Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
20th » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian polar expedition of 1900–02 known as Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship 'Zarya (polar ship) named Zarya', never to return.
21st » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
25th » The Taoism or Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1900
3rd » Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
5th » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
6th » Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist (d. 1957)
6th » Lester Matthews, English actor (d. 1975)
7th » Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (d. 1963)
15th » Gotthard Günther, German philosopher and academic (d. 1984)
15th » Otto Luening, German-American composer and conductor (d. 1996)
17th » Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945)