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February 8 – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.February 7 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill with bubonic plague, originating the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904, the first epidemic of the disease in the continental United States.February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.February 5 – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua.Strikers in Aachen, Vienna, and Brussels demand an eight-hour working day and higher wages.The former Secretary of State of Kentucky Caleb Powers is later found guilty in the conspiracy to kill Goebel. Goebel, who had prevailed in a dispute over the winner of the election in November 1899, had been sworn in on his deathbed. Governor William Goebel of Kentucky dies of wounds after being shot by several assassins on January 30.February 1 – Western Australia announces its refusal to join the Australian Federation unless it is given five more years of fiscal freedom.Plaque recording the location of the formation of the British Labour Party in 1900. January 23 – 5,000 Austrian miners go on strike.House of Representatives because of his polygamy. Roberts of Utah is not seated by the U.S. Senate accepts the British- German Treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands. Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome, Italy.January 9 - The first through passenger train goes from Cairo to Khartoum.January 8 – President William McKinley of the United States places Alaska under military governance.January 6 – Second Boer War: Boers attempt to end the Siege of Ladysmith, which leads to the Battle of Platrand.Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth's magnetism. January 4 – Strikes in Belgium and Germany lead to mining riots.January 3 – The United States Census estimates the country's population to be about 70 million people.Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy, to promote American trade with China. The first electric bus becomes operational in New York City.As of the start of 1900, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1900.ġ900 ( MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. 1900 in various calendars Gregorian calendar