List of events
Events from the year 1900 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] Governors and lieutenant governors Governors [ edit ] Governor of Alabama : Joseph F. Johnston (Democratic ) (until December 1), William J. Samford (Democratic ) (starting December 1) Governor of Arkansas : Daniel Webster Jones (Democratic ) Governor of California : Henry Gage (Republican ) Governor of Colorado : Charles Spalding Thomas (Democratic ) Governor of Connecticut : George E. Lounsbury (Republican ) Governor of Delaware : Ebe W. Tunnell (Democratic ) Governor of Florida : William D. Bloxham (Democratic ) Governor of Georgia : Allen D. Candler (Democratic ) Governor of Idaho : Frank Steunenberg (Democratic ) Governor of Illinois : John Riley Tanner (Republican ) Governor of Indiana : James A. Mount (Republican ) Governor of Iowa : Leslie M. Shaw (Republican ) Governor of Kansas : William E. Stanley (Republican ) Governor of Kentucky : Governor of Louisiana : Murphy James Foster, Sr. (Democratic ) (until May 8), William Wright Heard (Democratic ) (starting May 8) Governor of Maine : Llewellyn Powers (Republican ) Governor of Maryland : Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (Republican ) (until January 10), John Walter Smith (Democratic ) (starting January 10) Governor of Massachusetts : Roger Wolcott (Republican ) (until January 4), Winthrop Murray Crane (Republican ) (starting January 4) Governor of Michigan : Hazen S. Pingree (Republican ) Governor of Minnesota : John Lind (Democratic ) Governor of Mississippi : Anselm J. McLaurin (Democratic ) (until January 16), Andrew H. Longino (Democratic ) (starting January 16) Governor of Missouri : Lon Vest Stephens (Democratic ) Governor of Montana : Robert Burns Smith (Democratic ) Governor of Nebraska : William A. Poynter (Democratic ) Governor of Nevada : Reinhold Sadler (Silver ) Governor of New Hampshire : Frank W. Rollins (Republican ) Governor of New Jersey : Foster MacGowan Voorhees (Republican ) Governor of New York : Theodore Roosevelt (Republican ) (until end of December 31) Governor of North Carolina : Daniel Lindsay Russell (Republican ) Governor of North Dakota : Frederick B. Fancher (Republican ) Governor of Ohio : Asa S. Bushnell (Republican ) (until January 8), George K. Nash (Republican ) (starting January 8) Governor of Oregon : T. T. Geer (Republican ) Governor of Pennsylvania : William A. Stone (Republican ) Governor of Rhode Island : Elisha Dyer, Jr. (Republican ) (until May 29), William Gregory (Republican ) (starting May 29) Governor of South Carolina : Miles Benjamin McSweeney (Democratic ) Governor of South Dakota : Andrew E. Lee (Populist ) Governor of Tennessee : Benton McMillin (Democratic ) Governor of Texas : Joseph D. Sayers (Democratic ) Governor of Utah : Heber Manning Wells (Republican ) Governor of Vermont : Edward Curtis Smith (Republican ) (until October 4), William W. Stickney (Republican ) (starting October 4) Governor of Virginia : James Hoge Tyler (Democratic ) Governor of Washington : John Rankin Rogers (Populist )/(Democratic ) Governor of West Virginia : George W. Atkinson (Republican ) Governor of Wisconsin : Edward Scofield (Republican ) Governor of Wyoming : DeForest Richards (Republican ) Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
January–March [ edit ] April–June [ edit ] July–September [ edit ] Galveston Hurricane October–December [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] January 2 – William Haines , actor (died 1973 ) January 3 – C. L. Dellums , co-founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (died 1989 ) January 4 – James Bond , ornithologist (died 1989 ) January 5 – George Magrill , film actor (died 1952 ) January 6 – John West Sinclair , silent film actor (died 1945 ) January 8 – Dorothy Adams , character actress (died 1988 ) January 9 – Richard Halliburton , adventurer, writer (died 1939 ) January 11 January 15 – Rogers E. M. Whitaker , an editor at The New Yorker and railroad traveler (died 1981 ) January 27 – Hyman G. Rickover , admiral (died 1986 ) January 28 – Alice Neel , portrait painter (died 1984 ) January 31 – Betty Parsons , painter and gallerist (died 1982 ) February 5 – Adlai Stevenson II , politician (died 1965 ) February 12 – Roger J. Traynor , judge (died 1983 ) February 13 – Wingy Manone , jazz trumpeter and bandleader (died 1982 ) February 25 – Richard Hollingshead , inventor of the drive-in theatre (died 1975 ) March 3 – Ruby Dandridge , African American film and radio actress (died 1987 ) March 4 – Herbert Biberman , screenwriter, film director (died 1971 ) March 8 – Howard Aiken , computing pioneer (died 1973 ) March 29 – Oscar Elton Sette , fisheries scientist (died 1972 ) April 1 – William Benton , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1949 to 1953 (died 1973 ) April 5 – Spencer Tracy , film actor (died 1967 ) April 10 – Arnold Orville Beckman , chemist and investor (died 2004 ) April 13 – Sorcha Boru , born Claire Jones, art deco potter, ceramic sculptor (died 2006 ) April 26 – Charles Francis Richter , geophysicist, inventor (died 1985 ) May 5 – Helen Redfield , geneticist (died 1988 ) May 11 – Thomas H. Robbins Jr. , admiral (died 1972 ) May 12 – Joseph Rochefort , captain and cryptanalyst (died 1976 ) May 15 – Ida Rhodes , mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (died 1986 ) May 27 – Leopold Godowsky Jr. , violinist and chemist, co-inventor of reversal film (died 1983 ) May 28 May 31 – Lucile Godbold , Olympic athlete (died 1981 ) June 3 – Adelaide Ames , astronomer (died 1932 ) June 4 – George Watkins , baseball player (died 1970 ) June 7 June 8 – Lena Baker , African American maid executed for capital murder, pardoned posthumously (died 1945 ) June 14 June 15 – Paul Mares , jazz trumpeter (died 1949 ) June 19 – Laura Z. Hobson , author (died 1986 ) June 22 – Russell Vis , wrestler (died 1990 ) June 23 – Blanche Noyes , aviator (died 1981 ) June 24 – Gene Austin , crooner (died 1972 ) June 25 – Georgia Hale , silent film actress and real estate investor (died 1985 ) July 2 – Joe Bennett , baseball player (died 1987 ) July 4 – Nellie Mae Rowe , African American folk artist (died 1982 ) July 5 July 6 – Frederica Sagor Maas , playwright, essayist and author (died 2012 viveu pra caralho ) July 7 July 8 – George Antheil , avant-garde composer (died 1959 ) July 9 July 13 July 20 – Hunter Lane , baseball player (died 1994 ) July 21 – Isadora Bennett , theatre manager, modern dance publicity agent (died 1980 ) July 22 – Edward Dahlberg , novelist and poet (died 1977 ) July 23 – Julia Davis Adams , author, journalist (died 1993 ) July 29 – Owen Lattimore , scholar of Asia (died 1989 ) August 3 – Ernie Pyle , journalist (died 1945 ) August 9 – Charles Farrell , screen actor (died 1990 ) August 11 – Philip Phillips , archaeologist (died 1994 ) August 15 – Estelle Brody , silent film actress (died 1995 ) August 17 – Quincy Howe , journalist (died 1977 ) August 18 – Glenn Albert Black , archaeologist (died 1964 ) August 19 August 26 – Margaret Utinsky , nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom (died 1970 ) September 5 – Grace Eldering , public health scientist, co-developer of vaccine for whooping cough (died 1988 ) September 8 – Claude Pepper , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1936 to 1951 (died 1989 ) September 17 September 18 – Thomas Darden , rear admiral , 37th Governor of American Samoa (died 1961 ) September 22 – Paul Hugh Emmett , chemical engineer (died 1985 ) September 28 – Isabel Pell , socialite, member of the French Resistance during WWII (died 1951 ) October 2 – Olive Ann Alcorn , dancer, model and silent film actress (died 1975 ) October 6 – Vivion Brewer , desegregationist (died 1991 ) October 9 – Frederick Moosbrugger , admiral (died 1974 ) October 10 – Helen Hayes , actress (died 1993 ) October 17 – Jean Arthur , comic film actress (died 1991 ) October 18 – Evelyn Berckman , novelist (died 1978 ) November 5 November 6 November 8 November 11 – Frederick Lawton , 9th Director of the Office of Management and Budget (died 1975 ) November 13 – David Marshall Williams , inventor (died 1975) November 14 – Aaron Copland , composer (died 1990 ) November 20 – Florieda Batson , hurdler (died 1996 ) November 29 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally"), Nazi propaganda broadcaster (died 1988 ) December 6 – Agnes Moorehead , actress (Bewitched ) (died 1974 ) December 12 – Sammy Davis Sr. , dancer (died 1988) December 19 – Margaret Brundage , illustrator (died 1976 ) Undated January 2 – Zenas Bliss , Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1835 ) January 22 – David Edward Hughes , inventor of the microphone and teleprinter (born 1831 ) February 18 – Clinton L. Merriam , banker and politician (born 1824 ) February 20 – Washakie , head chief of the Eastern Snakes (born c.1798/1810) February 22 – Dan Rice , clown (born 1823 ) March 19 – John Bingham , politician and lawyer (born 1815 ) April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church , landscape painter (born 1826 ) April 24 – Andrew Smith Hallidie , inventor and cable car pioneer (born 1836 )[2] April 30 – Casey Jones , legendary train engineer (born 1863 ) May 22 – Nathaniel P. Hill , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1879 to 1885 (born 1832 ) June 11 – Maria Isabella Boyd , U.S. Civil War spy for the Confederacy (born 1844 ) June 12 – Lucretia Peabody Hale , journalist and author (born 1820 )[3] July 14 – John H. Gear , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (born 1825 ) August 2 – John Mason Loomis , lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (born 1825 ) August 5 – Luke Pryor , U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (born 1820 ) August 12 – James Edward Keeler , astronomer (born 1857 ) August 13 – Collis P. Huntington , railroad promoter (born 1821 ) August 16 – John James Ingalls , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891 (born 1833 ) September 20 – John Alexander McClernand , lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War (born 1812 ) September 23 – William Marsh Rice , philanthropist and founder of Rice University (born 1816 ) September 25 – John M. Palmer , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1891 to 1897 (born 1817 ) September 29 – Samuel Fenton Cary , Congressman and prohibitionist (born 1814 ) October 20 – Charles Dudley Warner , essayist and novelist (born 1829 ) October 22 – John Sherman , 32nd United States Secretary of the Treasury , 35th United States Secretary of State (born 1823 ) November 27 – Cushman Kellogg Davis , Governor of Minnesota from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1887 to 1900 (born 1838 ) December 21 – Roger Wolcott , lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1847 ) December 31 – J.T. Wamelink , Dutch-born composer (born 1827 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Legrand, Jacques (1987). Chronicle of the 20th Century . Ecam Publication. p. 10. ISBN 0-942191-01-3 . ^ Millard, Bailey (1924). "Andrew Smith Hallidie" . History of the San Francisco Bay Region: History and Biography . Vol. 3. Chicago: American Historical Society. pp. 312–317. Retrieved 10 October 2021 – via Google Books. ^ Kuiper, Kathleen (1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature . Springfield: Merriam-Webster. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-87779-042-6 . Further reading [ edit ] External links [ edit ]