Explore 533 historical events from 1900–1909.
Don Ameche was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, whi…
Don Ameche, American actor (died 1993)
Charles Cameron Kingston was an Australian politician. From 1893 to 1899 he was Premier of South Australia, leading a coalition of Radicals supported by the Labor Party.
Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Sir Louis-Napoléon Casault was a Quebec lawyer, judge, professor and political figure. He represented Bellechasse in the 1st Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1870 as a Conservative…
Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1823)
François Édouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.
François Coppée, French poet and author (born 1842)
Thomas Mitchell Morris, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of…
Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (born 1821)
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as initially the Mujaddid of the 14…
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (born 1835)
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party fro…
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)
Louis-Honoré Fréchette was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Acadé…
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (born 1839)
Allen Butler Talcott was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first …
Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (born 1867)
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspectio…
The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day
Unicameralism is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, ma…
The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session
The Isle of Man TT races are an annual motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man in May and June of mostly every year since its inaugural race in 1907. The two-week event is …
The first Isle of Man TT race is held
Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc
August Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of war crimes at Mauthausen-…
August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (died 1947)
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), w…
Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (died 1995)
Malik Miran Bakhsh, also known as Miran Bux, was a Pakistani international cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1955.
Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricketer (died 1991)
Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes of Florina was a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church. He was born in Paros in village of Piso Livadi.
Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek bishop (died 2010)
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fa…
Lee Miller, American model and photographer (died 1977)
Fritz Wotruba was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho-Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the most notable sculptors of the 20th century in Austria. In his work, he increasingly…
Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor, designed the Wotruba Church (died 1975)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos was a Mexican cinematographer, regarded as one of the greatest cinematographers of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He worked on over 200 films, which cove…
Gabriel Figueroa, Mexican cinematographer (died 1997)
Ilias Tsirimokos was a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece for a very brief period.
Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)
Alfred Zinnemann was an Austrian and American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Austria-Hungary and educated in France and Germany, Zinnemann began his career in E…
Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (died 1997)
Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an American contralto. Referred to as The First Lady of Radio, Smith became well known for her renditions of "God Bless America" and "When the Moon Come…
Kate Smith, American singer and actress (died 1986)
Pinky Lee was an American actor of stage, screen, radio, and television. He is best known as a children's-TV personality of the 1950s.
Pinky Lee, American comedian and television host (died 1993)