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| 1900 |
| | | After a prodigiously productive career as novelist and journalist, Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28 | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Harvey Firestone sets up the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Joshua Slocum publishes Sailing Alone Around the World, an account of his famous 1895-8 circumnavigation | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The Bayer company in Germany sells aspirin in the form of water-soluble tablets, the first medication of its kind | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Ferdinand Zeppelin's first dirigible makes its test flight from a floating hangar on the Lake of Constance | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Charles Stewart Rolls wins the Automobile Club's Thousand Mile Trial in a 12 horse-power Panhard | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Jack London's first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, brings him a wide readership | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki | |
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