Английская Википедия:February 1900

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February 28, 1900: British forces defending Ladysmith rescued after a four-month siege (painting by John Henry Frederick Bacon)
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February 1, 1900: Kodak popularizes snapshots by introducing the one-dollar Brownie camera

The following events occurred in February 1900:

February 1, 1900 (Thursday)

  • The Eastman Kodak Company introduced the Brownie camera, shipping it to dealers on this date. The inexpensive ($1.00, equivalent to $33.47 in 2022[1]) box camera made photography affordable to the average person, and over the next twenty months, around 245,000 of the cameras would be sold. In October 1901, Eastman would introduce the next version, the No. 1 Brownie.[2]

February 2, 1900 (Friday)

February 3, 1900 (Saturday)

February 4, 1900 (Sunday)

February 5, 1900 (Monday)

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February 6, 1900 (Tuesday)

February 7, 1900 (Wednesday)

February 8, 1900 (Thursday)

February 9, 1900 (Friday)

February 10, 1900 (Saturday)

  • In competition at the Eisstation in Davos, Switzerland, Peder Østlund of Norway set two new world records in speed skating, in the 1000 and 500 meter races. The next day, Østlund set two additional records in the 1,500 meter and 10,000 meter races. Ostlund's records would stand for years. The Шаблон:Nowrap time was not broken until 1906, by Rudolf Gundersen. Oscar Mathisen set new records in the other events; the 10 kilometer record stood until 1912.[36]
  • Aristocrat Roland B. Molineux was convicted of the December 1899 murder, by mercury cyanide poison, of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams, and sentenced to death. A jury concluded that Molineux had anonymously mailed a poisoned bottle of Bromo Seltzer to an athletic club rival, Henry Cornish, on December 21, 1899. Cornish's aunt, Mrs. Katherine B. Adams, was poisoned instead and died on December 27. The sentence would later be reversed, and Molineux would be acquitted in his 1902 trial. He died in 1917.[37][38]
  • The New York Times reported that over 80,000 people were preparing to move from Utah to the Bighorn Basin in northern Wyoming, where Шаблон:Convert had been set aside by the state under the Carey Act.[39]

February 11, 1900 (Sunday)

  • After four years, Vladimir Lenin was released from his exile to the Siberian village of Shushenskoye. He and his wife travelled by horseback for Шаблон:Convert to Ufa and arrived there on February 18.[40]
  • In Port Arthur, Texas, James Sweeney, a white man, was lynched by a mob at Шаблон:Nowrap, only hours after being acquitted of the bayonet murder of Charles Crumbach. Tried in Beaumont, Sweeney returned by train to Port Arthur. "Word had been telegraphed ahead that he was coming, and a mob met him at the station, marched him up town, and strung him up to a telegraph pole without ceremony. In the first attempt the rope broke. The second attempt was made successful by tying Sweeney's legs so that his feet could not touch the ground, and drawing the rope taut."[41]
  • The Spanish steamship Alicante arrived in Barcelona, repatriating 1,100 soldiers who had been imprisoned by rebels during the Philippine–American War.[42]
  • Born: Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher, author of Truth and Method; in Marburg (d. 2002)

February 12, 1900 (Monday)

  • New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt released a statement to the public. "In view of the continued statements in the press that I may be urged as a candidate for vice president and in view of the many letters that reach me advising me for and against such a course, it is proper for me to state definitely that under no circumstances could I or would I accept the nomination for the vice presidency." He added, "And I am happy to state that Senator Platt cordially acquiesces in my views in the matter." Roosevelt later accepted the nomination to be U.S. President William McKinley's running mate in the upcoming presidential election, and became the 26th President of the United States upon McKinley's death the following year.[43]
  • Born: Roger J. Traynor, American judge, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of California, from 1964 to 1970; in Park City, Utah (d. 1983)

February 13, 1900 (Tuesday)

  • In New York City, U.S. Representative Charles A. Chickering was killed after falling from his bedroom window on the fourth floor of the Grand Union Hotel at 41st Street and Park Avenue. "While it may have been an accident or the result of walking in his sleep, the facts gathered indicated that the Congressman plunged head first from a window on the fourth floor of the Grand Union Hotel and was instantly killed," noted The New York Times, adding that "The body was attired in a night robe, indicating that the congressman had retired."[44]
  • The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) was founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, by Canadian philanthropist Mrs. John Black. By the time of its centennial, the IODE had 9,000 members in Canada.[45]

February 14, 1900 (Wednesday)

February 15, 1900 (Thursday)

  • The Siege of Kimberley was lifted, four months after the British inhabitants defended an attack by the Boers during the Second Boer War. The attack had begun on October 12, 1899. General John French led troops to liberate the city.[49]
  • In Paris, Albert Decrais, the Minister of the Colonies received a telegram from the Governor of the French Congo, reporting that Rabih az-Zubayr, the principal chieftain and warlord of central Sudan, had been defeated in battle. "He was formerly a slave of Zobohr Pasha ... but revolted and formed a kingdom of his own in Central Africa", noted The New York Times, adding "His career of victory gained for him the name of the 'African Napoleon'. The French have been fighting his power for years, and to-day's dispatch announces his overthrow." Rabih's fortress at Kouno was defended by 12,000 men with 2,500 rifles and 3 cannon. Forty-three Senegalese sharpshooters were killed and four Europeans, including Captain Robilor.[50]

February 16, 1900 (Friday)

February 17, 1900 (Saturday)

February 18, 1900 (Sunday)

  • In a day remembered afterward as "Bloody Sunday", British imperial forces suffered their worst single day losses in the Second Boer War. Lord Kitchener ordered a charge downhill toward the Boer trenches at Paardeberg, and there were 1,100 casualties, including 280 deaths.[59]
  • At The Crystal Palace at Sydenham near London, two men were killed when a pair of elephants ran amok during an afternoon circus. One elephant was captured on the property after causing great damage, while the other one ran through the suburb of Beckenham and was not recaptured until late evening.[60]

February 19, 1900 (Monday)

February 20, 1900 (Tuesday)

February 21, 1900 (Wednesday)

  • The contract for the New York City Subway was signed between the City of New York and John B. MacDonald of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. McDonald's company would build the subway at a cost of $35,000,000 and would have the right to operate the system for 50 years, with an option to renew for another 25 years.[69][70]
  • Future film director Cecil B. DeMille made his Broadway debut at the Garden Theater, Manhattan, New York City, in a production of Hearts Art Trumps.[71]

February 22, 1900 (Thursday)

February 23, 1900 (Friday)

February 24, 1900 (Saturday)

February 25, 1900 (Sunday)

  • More than 150 bystanders were injured in the Paris suburb of Saint-Ouen, France, while watching a fire at a warehouse block. Six warehouses, including several that had vats of alcohol, burned down in a fire that started at 8 am. By 4 pm, the flames reached the alcohol and the first of several explosions rained debris upon the crowd.[80]

February 26, 1900 (Monday)

February 27, 1900 (Tuesday)

February 28, 1900 (Wednesday)

  • After a siege of four months during the Second Boer War, the British fortress of Ladysmith in South Africa was liberated. General Redvers Buller's dispatch the next morning was "General Dundonald, with the Natal carbineers and a composite regiment, entered Ladysmith last night. The country between me and Ladysmith is reported clear of the enemy. I am moving on Nelthorpe." On receipt of the cable, there was celebration across the British Empire. An account of the time noted that "London went literally mad with joy, and throughout England the scenes witnessed have no parallel in the memories of this generation."[88] Lieutenant-General George White, the Natal colony commander who had led the defence of the frontier town, addressed the residents that evening, saying "Thank God we kept the flag flying." His voice breaking, he added, "It cut me to the heart ... to reduce your rations as I did." After an uncomfortable pause, he added, "I promise you, though, that I'll never do it again."[89]
  • For the first time in 100 years (and the last time for two centuries), a year divisible by four would not include February 29. The New York Times noted a problem with technology of the day: "It is said on trustworthy authority that to-day calendar clocks, for the first time since their invention, will all go wrong unless their owners give them a little assistance ... this is not a leap year, for astronomers have decreed that, in order to keep the calendar in the present relation to the season, it is necessary to change the natural leap year to a common year when it falls on a century."[90] The calendar clock, invented by William H. Akins and Joseph C. Burritt, was patented in 1854.[91] The problem with 1900 technology would be recalled, near the end of the 20th century, when the Year 2000 problem or Y2K presented difficulties in all computer programming based on a six digit description of dates. In the same manner that calendar clocks would be inaccurate by one day when March 1 would be displayed as February 29 (and March 2 and March 1), the day after 12/31/99 would be followed by 01/01/00 and interpreted by six digit computer systems as January 1, 1900, rather than January 1, 2000.[92] The year 2100 will be the next year divisible by four not to include February 29.
  • Born: Wolf Hirth, German aircraft pilot, pioneer for gliding and designer of the sailplane, co-founder of Schempp-Hirth; in Stuttgart (d. 1959)

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