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September 1900

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September 1900
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The following events occurred in September 1900:

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September 8, 1900: Thousands killed by hurricane in Galveston, Texas

September 1, 1900 (Saturday)

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September 2, 1900 (Sunday)

September 3, 1900 (Monday)

  • The 1899 Hague Convention came into effect, with many of the world's major powers (but not the United States) agreeing to attempt peaceful resolution of international conflicts.[5]
  • On Labor Day in Charleston, South Carolina, the "Capital City Guards", an African-American regiment of the South Carolina state guard, were giving an exhibition drill at Capital Square, when a group of white men on horseback drove into the black crowd, knocking down a woman and a child. Eight members of the guard chased after the attackers, then attached bayonets to their rifles and charged into the crowd. Although nobody was seriously injured, Governor Miles Benjamin McSweeney ordered the disbanding of the 14-year-old unit the next day, after finding that the guards had accumulated a large stock of ammunition in their armory.[6]
  • A 3200-volt power line crossed onto the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department call box circuit. 16 police officers were electrocuted while attempting to use call boxes. Police Officer John P. Looney and Police Officer Nicholas F. Beckman died the same day; Police Officer Michael Burke would die of his injuries on December 13, 1901.[7][8][9]
  • Born: Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland from 1956 to 1982; in Pielavesi (d. 1986)

September 4, 1900 (Tuesday)

September 5, 1900 (Wednesday)

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September 6, 1900 (Thursday)

September 7, 1900 (Friday)

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September 8, 1900 (Saturday)

  • A powerful hurricane hit Galveston, Texas, killing at least 6,000 of the island's 38,000 residents. The storm reached Galveston Island, off the Gulf Coast of Texas, at 2:00 a.m. By noon, the waters were over the bridges to the mainland and flood waters rolled in after 3:00 pm.[14] The anemometer measured the windspeed at 84 miles per hour (135 km/h) before blowing away at 6:15 p.m. At 7:32, the water level suddenly rose 4 feet (1.2 m) as waves rolled in, and within 30 minutes, the water was 8 feet (2.4 m) deep.[15]
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September 9, 1900 (Sunday)

  • The Galveston hurricane ended after the entire island had been under 8 feet (2.4 m) of water. "Without apparent reason", reporter Richard Spillane would write later, "the waters suddenly began to subside at 1:45 a.m. Within twenty minutes they had gone down two feet, and before daylight the streets were practically freed of the flood waters."[14] When the survivors ventured out, the full extent of the storm was realized, with thousands of corpses across the island. By month's end, at least 2,311 bodies had been recovered.[16]
  • Born: James Hilton, English writer, author of Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips; in Leigh, Lancashire (d. 1954)

September 10, 1900 (Monday)

  • A local militia company, the "Galveston Sharpshooters", began patrolling Galveston, Texas the day after the hurricane had passed on, and began dealing with looters. "On Monday, some men caught looting deserted houses and robbing dead bodies were promptly shot on the spot", it was noted fifty years later, "how many were never learned exactly."[17] One estimate was that there were as many as 250 looters killed, some found "with pockets full of fingers ... sliced off in their haste to procure the rings on them."[18]
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September 11, 1900 (Tuesday)

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September 12, 1900 (Wednesday)

September 13, 1900 (Thursday)

September 14, 1900 (Friday)

September 15, 1900 (Saturday)

  • Rikken Seiyūkai, or "Friends of Constitutional Government", was founded as Japan's newest political party, with former Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi as its leader. The Seiyukai party won a majority in the elections in October, bringing Ito back into power.[29]

September 16, 1900 (Sunday)

  • Prince Albert of Saxony, son of the King George, was killed in an accident after a collision with a carriage driven by Prince Miguel of Braganza.
  • A battle at Similoan, Philippines involved 90 American troops confronting 1,000 Filipinos. Resulting casualties included 24 Americans killed, 5 missing, 9 wounded.[30]

September 17, 1900 (Monday)

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Queen Victoria

September 18, 1900 (Tuesday)

September 19, 1900 (Wednesday)

September 20, 1900 (Thursday)

September 21, 1900 (Friday)

September 22, 1900 (Saturday)

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French President Émile Loubet

September 23, 1900 (Sunday)

  • William Marsh Rice, multimillionaire and benefactor of Rice University, was found dead at his New York City apartment.[48] Although it appeared at the time that he had died in his sleep at the age of 84, Mr. Rice's lawyer, Albert T. Patrick, tried to cash $250,000 worth of checks the next day. Eventually, it was established that Rice's valet had administered chloroform to Rice at Patrick's direction. Patrick was convicted of the murder in 1901. As he sat on death row at New York's Sing Sing prison, Patrick's sentence was commuted to life in 1906, and he was pardoned in 1912.[49]
  • One of Spain's greatest generals, Arsenio Martínez Campos, died at Zarauz, Spain. The New York Times eulogized, "Many have said that if the Spanish Government had retained Gen. Campos as Captain General of Cuba ... the Maine would not have been blown up and Spain would not stand to-day stripped of her ancient colonies."[50]

September 24, 1900 (Monday)

  • A tornado swept through Morristown, Minnesota, dropping a barn upon Gatseke's Saloon, where 16 people had taken refuge. Eight were crushed in the collapse of the saloon, including a candidate for the state legislature.[51]
  • Born: Mecha Ortiz, Argentine film actress; in Buenos Aires (d. 1987)

September 25, 1900 (Tuesday)

September 26, 1900 (Wednesday)

September 27, 1900 (Thursday)

September 28, 1900 (Friday)

  • The United States Department of War received a cable from General Arthur MacArthur Jr. with the worst news to that time from the war in the Philippines. Fifty-one men from Company F of the 29th Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Captain Devereaux Shields, had apparently been taken prisoner by the Filipino resistance, along with the gunboat Villalobos. "There is scarcely a doubt that the entire party has been captured with many killed and wounded", MacArthur cabled, "Shields among the latter."[57] The prisoners were later released on October 15, with Captain Shields and 48 men having survived.[58]
  • Charles E. Bedell, the main steelwork engineer of the new Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, fell 85 feet (26 m) from the Brooklyn end of the bridge while trying to avoid a derrick boom that was swinging toward him. He died about an hour later at the Eastern District Hospital after an ambulance surgeon from St. Catharine's Hospital refused to transport him by ambulance without a $5 payment.[59]

September 29, 1900 (Saturday)

September 30, 1900 (Sunday)

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