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November 6, 1900: William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt win presidential election
November 30, 1900: Oscar Wilde dies of meningitis
November 17, 1900: U.S. Navy demonstrates world's most powerful weapon, the 12"/40 armor-piercing gun
November 7, 1900: Canadian Prime Minister retains office with Liberal majority

The following events occurred in November 1900:

November 1, 1900 (Thursday)

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  • Tsar Nicholas became seriously ill with typhoid fever, precipitating a crisis in the Russian Empire during the entire month. When it appeared that the Tsar's death was imminent, his advisors argued over whether he should be succeeded by his brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, or, since he had no sons, by his young daughter Olga. Future Prime Minister Sergei Witte would relate later that a revision of the succession law came from the crisis, that would have allowed women to succeed to the throne. Nicholas began recovering on November 28, and would reign until being deposed during the October Revolution in 1917. Nicholas, Michael, Olga, and the rest of the royal family would be murdered in 1918.[1]
  • Pope Leo issued the encyclical Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus.[2]

November 2, 1900 (Friday)

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November 3, 1900 (Saturday)

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  • The first auto show in the United States was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, sponsored by the Automobile Club of America. More than 70 manufacturers put on exhibits and more than 7,000 spectators appeared on the first day of what detractors called "the horseless horse show".[4]
  • The first "ground control" station was set up at Ostend, Belgium, allowing constant contact between the station and Belgian ships sailing the route between Ostend and Dover. The Princess Clementine stayed in communication with the shore during its entire journey.[5]
  • Born: Adolf "Adi" Dassler, founder of the Adidas shoe company; in Herzogenaurach (d. 1978)

November 4, 1900 (Sunday)

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November 5, 1900 (Monday)

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November 6, 1900 (Tuesday)

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Losing candidate Bryan

November 7, 1900 (Wednesday)

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November 8, 1900 (Thursday)

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November 9, 1900 (Friday)

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November 10, 1900 (Saturday)

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November 11, 1900 (Sunday)

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November 12, 1900 (Monday)

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November 13, 1900 (Tuesday)

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  • The former auxiliary cruiser USS Yosemite was blown from her anchorage at the harbor of San Luis d'Apra, Guam by a particularly violent typhoon—first ashore and then out to sea.[27] A steam launch from Yosemite foundered in the harbor, drowning five men: Coal Passer Joseph Anderson, Seaman George Aubel, Fireman 1 class William Davis, Apprentice 1 class Jacob L. Mehaffey and Coxswain Frank Swanson.[28] For two days, Yosemite's crew fought heroically to save their ship, but she shipped water badly and, due to a damaged screw, made only two knots headway even after the storm passed. Finally, after the weather abated completely, her crew was taken off by the collier USS Justin, and Yosemite was scuttled.[27]
  • Arthur Jenner, Britain's Sub-Commissioner assigned to the Jubaland province in the colony of British Somaliland, was murdered on orders of two of the Chiefs of the Ogaden, Hassan Yera and Hassan Odel. Yera had been arrested earlier on Jenner's orders as part of a murder investigation.[29]
  • Valdemar Poulsen of Denmark was awarded U.S. Patent No. 661,619 for the first sound recording device, which he called the "telegraphone".[30] In the summer of 1898, Poulsen found that a telephone, connected to an electromagnet (which, in turn moved along a piece of piano wire) could electronically store the sound of his voice; and that the sound could be "played back" to a telephone receiver by moving the magnet back over the wire.[31]
  • Born: David "Carbine" Williams, American inventor who designed the M1 carbine rifle; in Cumberland County, North Carolina (d. 1975)

November 14, 1900 (Wednesday)

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November 15, 1900 (Thursday)

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  • Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) had its genesis with the donation of one million dollars by Andrew Carnegie to the city of Pittsburgh, to build a college on land provided by the city. The buildings of the Carnegie Technical Schools would be constructed at Schenley Park over the next several years, and on October 16, 1905, the first 120 engineering students would be admitted.[33]

November 16, 1900 (Friday)

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  • The Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first public concert, conducted by Fritz Scheel. From 1912 to 1938, the orchestra would be conducted by Leopold Stokowski.[34]
  • In a gruesome lynching, 16-year-old Preston Porter, Jr., was burned at the stake in Limon, Colorado, a week after he had killed 11-year-old Louise Frost at the same location. At 3:45 p.m., a mob of 300 citizens stopped a train transporting Porter to the county jail and removed Porter from the train, with an intent to hang him. Richard W. Frost, the girl's father, was given a choice for the method of execution, and at 6:23 p.m., he set fire to a kerosene soaked pile of wood as the mob, and reporters, watched. Porter took 20 minutes to die.[35]
  • During a parade in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław), Poland), a woman threw a hatchet at the open carriage of Kaiser Wilhelm. Selma Schnapke, later ruled to be insane, threw well enough that the "hand chopper" struck the imperial carriage, and was arrested.[36]

November 17, 1900 (Saturday)

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  • British Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener announced plans to "depopulate the towns in the Transvaal".[37] In accordance with the order, the burning of farms would be discontinued, and civilians would be relocated to what became described by British MP John Ellis as "concentration camps", a term coined from "reconcentrado" camps that Spain had set up in Cuba. By October 1901, the camps would house 111,619 white and 43,780 black citizens, and have a death rate of 34 percent.[38]
  • Dr. Ernest Reynolds discovered the cause of an outbreak of alcoholic neuritis and revealed what would turn out to be one of the United Kingdom's worst scandals involving food contamination. Suspecting arsenic poisoning, Dr. Reynolds analyzed a sample of a particular brand of beer that many of the patients at the Manchester Workhouse Hospital had been drinking, and found that "it contained an appreciable amount of arsenic".[39] Three days later, Dr. Sheridan Delepine of Owens College analyzed samples of beer from 14 Manchester breweries and found similar arsenic levels. The problem would be traced to a manufacturer of contaminated glucose used in the brewing process, and then to impure sulfuric acid used in processing the glucose. The acid manufacturer had, for eight months, been using a different system in producing the acid. In February, a royal commission would be appointed to investigate and would conclude that 6,000 poisonings, including 70 deaths, had resulted from the contaminated beer[39] and that from November 25 to January 10, 36 of those deaths were in Manchester.[40]
  • Tests were completed at the Indian Head Proving Ground in Maryland of the most advanced American weapon up to that time. The twelve-inch 40-caliber naval gun was designed to fire shells that "would pierce any armor ever made". Forty of the guns were scheduled to be placed on new battleships and armored cruisers.[41]

November 18, 1900 (Sunday)

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  • Herbert Hoover, "an American mining engineer who was present at the siege of Tien-Tsin", was interviewed by The New York Times and predicted that "Unless our government adopts a more forcible policy, we will have a calamity in China that has not been equaled in the history of the world." The 26-year-old engineer, destined to become the 31st President of the United States, went on to say, "Our whole policy has been to pat a rattlesnake on the head."[42]

November 19, 1900 (Monday)

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November 20, 1900 (Tuesday)

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November 21, 1900 (Wednesday)

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November 22, 1900 (Thursday)

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November 23, 1900 (Friday)

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November 24, 1900 (Saturday)

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November 25, 1900 (Sunday)

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November 26, 1900 (Monday)

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  • Russian Admiral Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev signed an agreement with Tseng Ch'i, the Chinese Governor-General of Mukden, effectively giving the Russians freedom to control Manchuria for as long as necessary.[52]
  • There is no "Allis, Wisconsin", but on this date, the Edward P. Allis Company moved to the community of North Greenfield, Wisconsin, and became its largest employer. Two years later, the town would be incorporated as West Allis, Wisconsin.[53]

November 27, 1900 (Tuesday)

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November 28, 1900 (Wednesday)

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  • Anton Chekhov's play The Wedding was given its first performance, making its debut at the Moscow Hunt Club.[58]
  • Died: Halcyon Skinner, eulogized as "the man who revolutionized the carpet making industry", was killed when he accidentally stepped in front of a train near his home in Yonkers, New York. In 1849, Skinner had invented various looms that lowered the costs for manufacturing carpets.[59]

November 29, 1900 (Thursday)

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November 30, 1900 (Friday)

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