The Taft Commission, the precursor to the Congress of the Philippines, enacted its first four laws. They dealt with monetary appropriations for road construction, surveys, and the salaries for two new government employees.
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The Galveston Sharpshooters, a unit of the Texas state militia, began patrolling Galveston and shooting looters. About 250 such people were shot.
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The full devastation in Galveston started to become known, while ot the outside world they remained unkown.
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the "Great Galveston Hurricane" made landfall. It killed no less than 8,000 people and maybe up to 12,000 and destroyed Galveston.
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It remains the fourth deadliest storm in U.S. history.
The water rose 8'.
Notable in this, this was a slow moving hurricane. It'd be hard to imagine this occurring today. In Galveston, it wouldn't, as a seawall was built after the storm which was tested, and passed the test in the 1915 Galveston Hurricane.
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Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary ordered the dissolution of the Abgeordnetenhaus, the elected portion of the Austrian Reichsrat. rather than have to suspend constitutional rights.
The Abgeordnetenhaus was confusing and divided along ethnic lines between German and Slavic parties.
Hungary, which was separately administered, didn't participate in the whole mess, which was also part of the problem.
Austro Hungaria was a house of cards.
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The Galveston Hurricane was approaching landfall.
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Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan, on the eastern side of Luzon.
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It was American Labor Day.
The 1899 Hague Convention went into effect, binding those nations which had entered into it, which the US had not.
The South Carolina African American Capital City Guards, while giving an exhibition drill in Charleston, reacted to the watching crowed being stormed by white horsemen, with a few members even fixing bayonets. The incident would lead to their disbandment.
Numerous policemen were injured, and three killed, when a power line fell onto the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's call box circuit.
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The United Kingdom annexed the South African Republic.
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Mexico called a halt to an eight month campaign against the Yaqui.
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The Wild Bunch robbed the Union Pacific No. 3 at Tipton, Wyoming, taking $45,000.
Charles E. Woodcock, express messenger for the Union Pacific, had the misfortune of being on a train robbed by the gang for the second time.
This would be their last train robbery.
This is famously depicted in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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The wife of Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson, Military Governor of the Matanzas-Santa Clara Department of Cuba, was killed when she stepped from a carriage and stepped on a match that had been burning in the street, catching her dress on fire.
I note this due to the absolute tyranny of women's clothing, much reduced in our present era, and due to the bizarre fact that women were so identified with their husbands in an earlier era, I could not learn her name.
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Lord Robert's British troops defeated Gen. Botha's South Africans in the Battle of Dalmanutha. South African Republic President Paul Kruger was forced to flee the country.
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane began to form.
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An "unidentified French coxswain" became the youngest Olympic medalist in history, helping the team of François Brandt and Roelof Klein win the first gold medal ever for the Netherlands in rowing.
The original coxswain was too heavy. The replacement was as young as ten years old.
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Lt. Hans Cordua of the Transvaal Army was executed after having been found guilty of a conspiracy to kidnap the British commander, Lord Roberts.
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Empress Dowager Cixi issued a decree blaming herself for the Boxer Rebellion.
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The 1915 Galveston Hurricane made landfall. Atmospheric pressure was recorded at 27.76 inHg (940 mb) with wind speeds of 135 mph (217 km/h) leading to $921 million in damage, but the construction of the seawall in the city following the 1900 Hurricane prevented large scale loss of life.
The German battleships SMS Nassau and Posen dueled with the Russian battleship Slava at Riga.
Jewish American Leo Frank was abducted from his prison cell in Milledgeville, Georgia and lynched for the alleged murder of former employee of the plant he supervised, the impoverished 13-year-old Mary Phagan in Atlanta. The mob included a former Governor.
While Frank was convicted of the crime of rape and murder, there are significant doubts about his guilt, which is why the original sentence of death was commented to life in prison.
Charles Kettering patented the electric starter for automobiles.
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The Eight National Alliance's troops entered the Forbidden City.
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Empress Dowager Cixi fled Beijing.
Prior to her departure, she ordered that Zhen Fei, known to foreigners as the Pearl Consort the favorite wife of her predecessor the Guangxu Emperor, be thrown down into a well.
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Gallant and daring conduct in the presence of his colonel and other officers and enlisted men of his regiment; was first to scale the wall of the city.
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Qing Dynasty troops set up a Krupp 57mm gun to fire on the Western (and Japanese) legations.
The Eight Nation Alliance captured Tung-chau, a location 13 miles from Beijing.
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Japanese miners confronted their American overseers at the Pacific Guano & Fertilizer min eon Laysan, Territory of Hawaii resulting in a manager Joseph Spencer, resorting to firing from two pistols after the miners rushed the overseers. Two miners were killed and three wounded. Spencer was tried on charges but was acquitted.
Laysan is one of the very tiny Hawaiian Islands that stretch out west towards Midway. It had a guano mine up until around this time, but which ceased thereafter. The island, in part due to this incident, came to the attention of the outside world. The island had unique flora and fauna, but Japanese poachers were destroying the bird population and imported rabbits the vegetation. In 1909 Theodore Roosevelt declared it a bird sanctuary. The rabbits ultimately nearly ate themselves into near extinction on the island and the last of them were killed in 1932.
The island is uninhabited and has largely recovered.
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Milton S. Hershey sold the Lancaster Caramel Company to investor Daniel F. Lafean for one million dollars in cash, an amazing sum in 1900.
He took the money and built a factory in Derry Church, Pennsylvania, which became the largest chocolate confectionary company in the United States, The Hershey Company
A plot to kidnap Lord Roberts in South Africa was uncovered and wrecked.
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